Miss Shorty P: Successful Female Entrepreneur

At the ripe age of twenty-one, this felysist (as she refers to a female lyricist) has been kicking butt in an industry full of men. So how does a young woman like Jessica Abraham achieve such accomplishments? Well, if you know Shorty, you would know exactly how much brain power, hard work, and hustling she had to do to get where she is at.

Finding her call in life at a very early age, she started to form groups in which she sang and danced. "None of us were really good. We were still in elementary school. Shoot, I can't even sing! But, that didn't matter I wanted to keep trying even when my group members didn't show interest any more. I guess my dream kept getting bigger and bigger!"

As a elementary and junior high student, she always found a way to stay on the honor roll and indulge herself into the music industry. "Ha ha. I remember taping the Grammy Awards since 1996, and I can remember watching my first one when Tag Team performed. I was always like , 'I'm gonna get one those one day.'"

However, it wasn't until 1999 that Shorty met Lena, a girl from Brooklyn who could sing her ass off. "Me and Lena decided we needed to be a group with as much dedication to the music we both demonstrated. Working with Lena really taught me how to work with other artists and adapt to their techniques, as well as shaping them into the perfect mold. This is also the point of time when I decided I should focus more on rapping."

Almost immediately after recording her first album, "The Sketches in a Notebook- The Demo," she learned on her own, despite what others told her, that she really wasn't meant to be a singer. In 2001, she found her niche.

With a few minor performances, she realized if she wanted to be a rapper, she had what is took. However, she had also fell in love with the actual production when she was eight. She would make beats by banging on waste baskets and glasses recording them into a little green radio and replaying the tape in a bigger stereo, creating layers. Later, her and her group members would sing over the tracks in the same fashion.