Serious Soul Brother, known as Mr. G. Smith, born 1969 at Margaret Hayes Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey; from (parents) Mrs. Queen Esther Smith and Mr. Nathan Smith, both born in the early 1930s in Jasper County, South Carolina. They then migrated to Newark, New Jersey in 1962 to get away from the severe oppression of the Jim Crow south.

While they struggled through the black civil rights era for freedoms and equality in the 1960s, my parents participated in a few civil rights and revolutionary movements in our communities. Thus birth the spirit of Serious Soul Brother.

In the 1970s, as a child growing up in the south ward streets of Newark and the neighboring town of Hillside, I became a doodlebug and was fascinated with commercial arts and graffiti. The very idea of writing phrases and clauses on walls, phonebooths, bus stops and in busses, inside the back of taxicabs, on trucks/vans, trains/subways, and even bathroom stalls opened my mind to a primative sense of social media that was uncensored and had no restrictions.

In the 1980s, by the age of 11, I began to take my place amongst those who have something to say by writing in/on phone booths, busses, subway & train cars, and even school text books. It was a feeling of liberation that came over me, to be able to express myself assertively during a time when I was still figuring out myself.

The birth of Hip Hop, became an outlet from years and generations (epigenetics) of suppressed oppression, a push-back on racial misconceptions, social disorders, and economic depression. The 1980s, I had several tags (writer's name): 1) CAB 360 [1980-82], 2) Shank 156 [1982-89], 3) M.O.B. - Mental Overdose Born [1985-1994], and finally Serious Soul Brother -PMS- Pen-Men-Ship [1994-present].

Serious Soul Brother

Birth name G. Smith

Islamic attribute Amir Abdul-Haadee