A raw, unfiltered prison memoir of trauma, survival, and awakening inside Amerika’s shadow.

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Before he ever chose the streets, the streets chose him.

From Crip to Muslim: Never Been a Child is the true-life account of a New Afrikan man who was denied childhood and forced into manhood by violence, state terror, and abandonment at an early age. Raised amid domestic brutality, police occupation, incarceration, and systemic injustice, the author recounts his first encounters with trauma at four years old watching his mother brutalized, his family fractured, and his sense of safety permanently stolen.

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This memoir traces his descent into gang life during 1970s South Central Los Angeles, where Crip identity, police violence, and survival became inseparable. Through vivid storytelling, the author exposes the realities of growing up under occupation illegal arrests, broken homes, stolen friendships, and the normalization of violence in communities deliberately neglected and targeted.

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But this is not merely a story of destruction.

 

While serving a life sentence inside California’s most notorious prison camps, the author confronts the deeper wounds beneath the rage unhealed trauma, learned violence, and spiritual emptiness. His eventual turn toward Islam becomes not an escape, but a reckoning: a disciplined path toward accountability, self-knowledge, and internal liberation.

Written with unpolished honesty and revolutionary clarity, From Crip to Muslim: Never Been a Child stands in the tradition of prison literature and Black radical autobiography. It is a testimony for those who were never protected, never nurtured, and never allowed to simply be children.

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This book is not an apology.
It is not a plea for sympathy.
It is a witness statement.