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Eric a.k.a Myster-E was born and raised in central New Jersey with much of his family background in the Bronx, NY. E graduated Brookdale Community College in 2014 earning an Associate of Arts degree. While studying there, he started his own underground college radio show titled "The Kickin' it with E show". During this time, he also spent a summer interning for the well-known Wu Tang rapper "Raekwon the Chef" at Ice House Recording Studios. After graduating Brookdale, he went on to continue the Kickin' it w/ E show on Wu World Radio. (Official radio of the Wu-Tang Clan). Before & during radio, E worked as a coach & child mentor for an anti-bullying nonprofit organization called "Kickin' it" for many years, which began his career of working with youth. Mr.E later went on to work a 1-year contract as a Laser Science Teacher/Emcee for a laser light edutainment company called Prismatic Magic. There he went on to tour the East Coast performing fun educational laser concerts for the youth in school assembly/auditorium settings. He put on shows in 7 different states & over 80 shows that year nationally. E put down the lasers but learned to refocus his light along the way. Mr. E then went on to earn his substitute teaching cert and went on assignments all over NJ sharing his gift of poetry and rapping with the youth. From there, E went on to become a Teaching Artist for NJPAC, teaching through Hip Hop and Poetry. In addition, he is now the Director/Coordinator of the Hip Hop Institute at the Monmouth County Boys and Girls Club located in Asbury Park working with inner-city youth on artistically expressing themselves in a positive way.

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​As a performing artist and Spoken Word emcee, the mister has opened up for hip hop icons along the way such as KRS One, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Joel Ortiz, Papoose, Queen Latifah, Fabolous & many more. He was featured as a special guest performer at the Newark Museum, 24hrsofpeace festival, SXSW in Austin, TX 2016, auditioned for America's Got Talent, represented the New Jeru (New Jersey) Slam team at the 2019 Southern Fried Poetry Slam Festival in Fayetteville, NC and was the Keynote Speaker for the Boys and Girls Club Youth Awards Ceremony in Bristol, CT.

Eric graduated from Kean University in 2019, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication studies. In his senior year, he received special awards placing top 4, in both the KU 2019 Poetry Prize contest (for his poem “Diversity”), along with the 2019 KU Business Plan competition, where he presented “Myster-E Edutainment”.

Myster-E has recently been named a “U.S. Hip Hop Cultural Ambassador” by Next Level USA and will be traveling to Poland in May, 2022 as part of the Next Level program along with 5 other U.S. Hip Hop Cultural Ambassadors and teaching artists. The team will perform for audiences and collaborate with local artists to promote cross-cultural creative exchange and conflict transformation. Team Poland is part of a larger cohort of American MC’s, DJ’s, beatmakers and Hip Hop dancers seeking to create global community through Hip Hop culture.