Ise Lyfe (pronounced "Ice Life"), born Isaac Patrick-Francis Brown, is a spoken word and hip-hop artist as well as an educator, community organizer, and activist in his native Oakland, California.
Lyfe and his sisters were raised by their mother in East Oakland's so-called "Brookfield Village", a low to lower middle income working class community near the city's southern border.
He performed average academically and faced common challenges experienced by young Black men growing up in American inner-cities.
[citation needed] Ise Lyfe became popular on the Bay Area Spoken Word and Hip-Hop scene in the early 2000s.
A local favorite, he won regional and national poetry slam competitions, and club shows with him on the bill became sold-out events.