“She said, ‘When I get my club, I’m going to do it like this and it’s going to look like this,'” he explained. It’s named after his late mother of him who once managed a club herself. Mistah FAB did purchase the building across the street from Dope Era. RELATED: San Francisco honors Earl Gage Jr., 1st Black firefighter hired in 1955 “The next thing you know it was 100 shirts, the next order went to 200 shirts, and now I’m riding around and can’t even see out the rental because I have all these shirts and sweaters in the back seats. “We pressed up like 25 shirts and just went to the neighborhood and they bought them up,” Mistah FAB continued. He used that same business model when starting the Dope Era clothing line with his brother and friends. Over time, Mistah FAB began writing raps and found success selling CD’s out of his car from him. She purchased notepads, dictionaries, and books for her. He told ABC7 News that she encouraged him to write as a child. Mistah FAB’s mother died about 12 years ago. RELATED: Roots Community Health Center promotes wellness in East Oakland’s Black community In the infancy stages of my writing, I began writing about my life and writing about my father, and what it was like growing up as a young Black man with a mother who was recovering from drugs herself.” “He was a heroin addict using needles and things like that and just trying his best to survive,” Mistah FAB said. Born Stanley Cox, Mistah FAB was raised by a single mother in North Oakland after losing his father to AIDS.

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