Imaad started writing poetry in high school, and at the urging of his speech teacher entered local poetry slam competitions. Imaad made it on to the Austin Under 21 Slam Poetry Team and competed in New York at the Brave New Voices youth competition in 2006. Since then Imaad has gone on to perform and compete across the country winning the University of Texas' biggest talent competition, Texas Revue in 2010, and performing at the Takin' it to the Streets arts festival in Chicago in 2013.