DeHaven Irby

What is more impressive? One’s past, the present, or one’s future? That question can be answered many ways as we evaluate and contemplate that question in many different ways. If we were to flash back to the past and revisit the story of DeHaven Irby, Brooklyn, New York, and a journey centering around growing up in Marcy Houses, you will hear a story or survival. When you hear about a particular place, that locale is associated with certain things. Las Vegas is known for gambling. Hollywood is known for movie making. Whatever you’ve ever heard about Brooklyn, just know that Brooklyn, is known for making money and the quest for survival. DeHaven did just that, starting out selling newspapers as a young child and evolving into a businessman that only the gritty street-life could produce. Along the way, he played high school basketball, and unified with his childhood friends to create a vision that is known seen all over the world today. If you listen closely, you might even hear a cosign in the form of a successful blueprint from Shawn Carter himself. He was someone you’d see near where the J (Subway) ran with the Z.

No matter how we once did, we have to contend with the present. DeHaven had his trials, tribulations, and tests. They are part of his present, although those street wars and conflicts were actually a part of his past. Many war veterans of the inner-city streets face a struggle that is sometimes mental, and sometimes physical. For those that survive the demons that cause us to speak things we speak, when facing the many illusions of urban life, DeHaven strives to continue to stand, and go on through life.

A Bio often serves as one’s past. For DeHaven, this biography is an introduction to the future. Things started in the inner-city streets, yet the full perspective is much more expansive than that. The introductions were made to the hardered realities of life, as well as the luxurious lavishness that many people never fully see. DeHaven continues to strive to move on the principles that allowed him to see some financial success in his lifetime.