Chocolate Thai

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*Friday May 3, 2007*

BOSSY: EMERGING FEMALE COLLECTIVE UNVEILED



What happens when five respected females in Hip-Hop come together to create
a platform, not just for themselves, but for women and the consumers of
Hip-Hop everywhere? You come face to face with the new super-group, *BOSSY*.
Consisting of five unique individuals who have come together to exude
nothing but a distinctive and undeniable ability to penetrate a market that
lacks female representation, *BOSSY* is that collective you will find hard
to ignore.

*BOSSY* is made up of AllHipHop.com Breeding Ground Alum *Chocolate
Thai* who had audiences captivated as she surpassed expectations on TV
show "The Next Episode", former Def Jam recording artist who held her own at the
infamous Monday Night Fight Klub...New Jersey's very own *Lady Luck*, the
gifted lyricist *Kanary Diamonds* representing the West who has featured on
soundtracks such as "Waist Deep", and Russian import *Byata* who has worked
alongside super producers, Premier and Marley Marl as well as appearing on "Wu
Tang Meets the Indie Culture" and the final piece to the BOSSY jigsaw is the
notorious MC/actress *Lady of Rage* who is famed for not just her role in
The Steve Harvey Show but her hit record "Afro Puffs".

These five females are here to bridge a gap within a testosterone fuelled
genre and restore faith in female MCs, not just as solo artists but as a
collective. Having established themselves as solo leaders in their own
rights, the five females that make up *BOSSY* know that combining forces
will allow them to 'move mountains.' Safety in numbers has never been a more
appropriate saying then when talking about *BOSSY*.

With their first mixtape, aptly named, "Never Say Never Again" scheduled for
a June release and with their first single "Bounce" ready to take the
internet by storm and prove just what these girls are capable of, never has
Hip-Hop been more prepared for *BOSSY*.

The Kynni Sound produced "Bounce" video will be shot by FOKAL's own Skwall on
May 25th and 26th in LA, California, details will be available on the group myspace
page.

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November 29, 2006


Knockout Entertainment and Sports Management, a leading management, marketing and endorsement agency, is pleased to announce the addition of future multi-platinum recording artist/actor Chocolate Thai to the firm’s roster.

Chocolate Thai will be joining WBO-USBA-NABA/NABO Heavyweight Champion Shannon Briggs, Comedian/Actor Michael Blackson "The African King of Comedy", NFL stars Stephen Davis and Rod Smart and recording artist Ja RULE as the First Lady of Knockout Entertainment and Sports Management, a role the company believes she is more than suited to.

President of Knockout Entertainment, Mike B, had this to say on the new addition to his team; “It is an honor and a pleasure to have Chocolate Thai as Knockout Entertainment’s First Lady. As a company getting ready to shake up the Hip-Hop industry, it is imperative to have someone like Chocolate Thai on board. She has the range, a unique sound and an exceptional delivery; mark my words she is definitely the voice of a new generation of females in Hip-Hop.”

The ever increasing Knockout client roster emphasizes the company’s obligation in ensuring their clients have the choice of an extensive list of individuals from all avenues of the entertainment and sporting worlds. For product endorsement and personal appearances Knockout Entertainment works closely with their clients to ensure they are provided with the most viable commodities to complement their products and services.

For more information on how you can use Knockout Entertainment to promote your product, service or event, contact Mike B at 704-778-0088 or by email :mikebee@mycingular.blackberry.net, knockout_entertainment@yahoo.com


For more on Chocolate Thai, the Voice of the Females please read below.


Chocolate Thai

Even as a child growing up in New York, Chocolate Thai had the ability to command attention. As a true connoisseur of the arts, she danced, she sang, and her passion for writing poetry eventually extended to song writing and her immersion into Hip-Hop transpired because of her uncle, who was both a DJ and an MC. While watching him practice, Thai picked upon the styles and energy of groups such as Run DMC and Public Enemy. When she was exposed to MC Lyte and Salt N Pepa, Thai knew that she wanted to make rhyming a permanent part of her life.

Throughout her teenage years, Thai was known as Freestyle in the corner ciphers. She began developing her craft by writing and performing; opening shows for many legendary groups including Brand Nubians and Das EFX. Before graduating High School, she won an MC contest at Club Facade in upstate New York, and continued on her path by performing at various clubs in the Northeast area.

Setting her sights on a career in rap, Chocolate Thai moved to Atlanta in 1997 to begin recording a demo. She showed up every week to DBS Sounds, a record shop in College Park, Georgia, and participated in freestyle ciphers with local emcees in the area.
Winning over audiences with her confident freestyle abilities, she developed a loyal following in Atlanta, adding to her already growing fan base in the New York
scene.

In 2002, Thai returned to New York to pursue her dream of finding a record label to work with. For a full year, she attended the popular End Of The Weak (E.O.W.) open mic night at Club Pyramid every Sunday in Manhattan. Thai was the first female to win the End of the Weak MC Challenge, a competition that tests skills on five levels: written songs, lyrical content, freestyle abilities, accappella, and flowing over various speeds of songs played by the deejay, also known in the contest as ‘beat juggling’.

After capturing the E.O.W. title, Thai received the phone call that would change her life. Interscope Records was doing a real life version of the movie 8 Mile in the form of a reality series on the Showtime Network. The show was called Interscope Presents: The Next Episode, and they wanted her to participate. Ten of the nation’s best MCs were selected in a cross-country talent search to compete for the title of "The Next", and Thai was the only female. She ultimately made it to the final round in Los Angeles. Only a week after the Showtime battle, Thai defended her E.O.W. MC Challenge title against former winners in the Battle of Champions, coming away with the Grand Prize.

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"The Price Just Went Up" Show coming soon, Promotors, Clubs, Schools that aren't already plugged in....Holla at me.

Peace!
CT


- Knockout Entertainment and Sports Management

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Monday October 1, 2006


The Next Episode’s Chocolate Thai and Flipmode’s First Lady, Rah Digga present
‘The Price Just Went Up’ Hosted by Bad Boy’s Babs Bunny.

Showing that unity between the females in Hip-Hop is possible, Chocolate Thai, Babs Bunny and Rah Digga have joined forces to bring to their worldwide fan base a mixtape which will be available for free download. The Price Just Went Up will be accessible online on Tuesday October 2nd and features Busta Rhymes, Mary J Blige, Lil Kim, Missy, DJ Jazzy Joyce, Heather Hunter and the infamous MC Lyte.

Understanding the growth and capabilities of internet promotion and marketing, the ladies opted to promote this project using the World Wide Web to its fullest capacity. The mixtape will be available for download also on the artists’ myspace pages. Having attracted fans from all continents through their endeavors in Hip-Hop, using the personal promotion tool, www.myspace.com, they were adamant that their fans overseas should have access to The Price Just Went Up as readily as fans here in the US. Myspace would allow them to do just that.

This female faction is extremely supportive of each other and what they are presenting to global Hip-Hop communities with this project. With plans to perform here and overseas, Thai, Rah and Babs hope that the fans will be as happy with this project as they are themselves. Each of the girls brings to the table their own distinct sound and unique style and the result is something that needs to be heard.

The spotlight may not be shining on the females in Hip-Hop right now, but after people start downloading The Price Just Went Up that will most certainly change.
OFFICIAL LINKS FOR DOWNLOAD:

http://rapidshare.de/files/35185615/PJWUofficial.zip
www.myspace.com/RahDigga1
www.myspace.com/chocolatethainy
www.myspace.com/firstladybabsbunny

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- Chocolate Thai, Rah Digga and Babs Bunny

Chocolate Thai - Riding High
http://www.nobodysmiling.com/hiphop/interview/86933.php

Interview By: Melanie J Cornish

Women in Hip-Hop are a rarity today. Behind the scenes women are in prominent positions right across the ‘industry’ board, but when it comes to the music they work so hard to represent, we have only a handful of females with the ability to reach the masses and that is a damn shame.

New York raised Chocolate Thai, who appeared as the only female on the TV show Interscope presents: The Next Episode brought together Bad Boys Babs Bunny and Flipmode’s first lady, Rah Digga on a mixtape which has been primarily promoted and available only on the internet. Still riding high off her project with MC Lyte The Real McCoy, making money was not Thai’s objective. 'The Price Just Went Up' project was to ensure that the fan base the gals accumulated worldwide had the chance to get the mixtape as quickly as one would on 125th street in Harlem and what better base to do that than the [W]orld [W]ide [W]eb.

Read what Thai has to say about New York Hip-Hop, what she has to say about New York fans and just what the future holds for one of the Undergrounds leading ladies. Make sure to check back later in the week as nobodysmiling.com goes in depth with Thai’s inspiration MC Lyte in an all exclusive interview.


Nobodysmiling.com : You are promoting your mixtape 'The Price Just Went up', how did you and Rah Digga link and when did Babs Bunny get involved in the project?

Chocolate Thai : The concept came from when me and MC Lyte did 'The Real McCoy' Project, after we were done with it and happy with it, she actually came to me about doing a female project, an EP. I was like it should be more than an EP if we could get all the chicks together. You know a few people had come to me about putting out a project like that, all different females.

I wanted to go after the chicks that I knew had a buzz and who I respected lyrically and Babs to me right now, not that I watch TV, but when she was on 'Making the Band' I was watching and rooting for her the whole time. Rah is a legend to me, up under MC Lyte and I just thought it was a smart way to go after 'The Real McCoy'.

I met Rah on the TV show I did, 'The Next Episode'. We actually rocked together at the show but it was edited out and we didn’t really keep in contact since then; but we had mutual people that we knew in common, so I reached out to her first. She was excited about it and ready to go. I really wanted Heather Hunter to host it but she didn’t have time to do it and I wasn’t actually going to have another host, I was just going to let MC Lyte do the intro and the outro.

When I linked up with Babs, it was a wrap, it was over. We were talking everyday, she wanted to be involved but the mixtape was about 70% done when she came onboard and she definitely has music up there, you know she wasn’t just hosting it. She is 100% behind the project so it was actually easy getting everyone on the project. We are all real positive and inspired to do something like this. I don’t think there has ever been anything done like this before.

Nobodysmiling.com : There have been talks of other female projects being done, but they just never came to fruition.

Chocolate Thai : There may have been but I have never heard of them. I know of chicks trying to get together to do something, but not like Babs from Bad Boy and then Rah from Flipmode and me as the wild card. I just hope that people do know of this project and so far the response has been really crazy.
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Nobodysmiling.com : Female to female, we have talked about this before, the females are so underrepresented.

Chocolate Thai : Well I think that all of us agree that all the females behind the scenes would probably support projects like this if they were made available to them. As a female I don’t listen to mixtapes to be honest with you; but this mixtape, even if I wasn’t on it I would really like the music. To hear all three females go back to back; a lot of people say that females sound alike and try to put us in boxes, but when you listen to this, all three of us sound very different and we are bringing something different to the table. That was my main goal to show the unity and bring the diversity of three different MCs to the table.

Nobodysmiling.com : How long did it take to get the project together?

Chocolate Thai : Really it could have been out and done faster, but because like I said, I don’t listen to mixtapes, but some of the pitfalls you have in mixtapes I was trying to avoid in putting this project together. I mean this is my second project out after The Real McCoy.

Nobodysmiling.com : But you approach a mixtape like an album anyway after hearing your first project; you know you put time and effort into them.

Chocolate Thai : Yeah that was really what I was trying to do. I was trying to set the platform for us to do an album. Wit - Interview By: Melanie J Cornish

NYC's feisty freestyling expert, Chocolate Thai, has teamed up with Flipmode's first lady, Rah Digga, to bring us an explosive hip hop mixtape. The ladies tell us more in this in depth interview.


Chocolate Thai is best known for her superior free styling skills and appearing at MC competitions on and off television. We know and love Rah Digga for being Flipmode’s first lady, and most recently saw her feature in the video for Busta Rhymes’ ‘Touch It (Remix)’.

‘The Price Just Went Up’ is a well-suited title to the new mixtape created by New York City’s Chocolate Thai – an album that can be downloaded for free on the internet, no strings attached. Getting together with Rah Digga, the pair came up with some explosive hip hop anthems for this project, a mixtape which also features MC Lyte on the intro and outro, and is hosted by Babs Bunny of ‘Making The Band’ fame.

Rah and Thai show that there is still unity between females inside and outside of music and when they do finally work together, they come up with the goods. It’s girl power all the way. The Situation got on the phone with the duo to find out more about their new release…

You’re all busy ladies, how did you all get together to create this project?
Chocolate Thai: I came up with the idea for the mixtape. I was touring Europe earlier this year and I know that Rah has a lot of love in the hip hop game, so I asked her if she wanted to get involved.
Rah Digga: Initially when Thai reached out to me, we realised that the market is open to our ideas. The appreciation and love for hip hop abroad is more genuine than opposed to in the States. I was all for it. I know some people are wondering what the hell is going on since I haven’t released anything for a while.

What’s the idea behind the name ‘The Price Just Went Up.’?
RD: I came up with the title. Artists are always more successful when they have a physical project out. If you don’t have anything out you don’t really have much leverage. When we put the mixtape out, we thought this is going to be something that circulates and some of the songs will be some underground classics. I figured once this came out we could up the speed and be like, ‘Now we have a project out so the rates have to increase.’ That’s the story behind the madness of the title.

What kind of example do you hope to set for other female rappers through this mixtape?
CT: The mixtape is being well received right now and we’re speaking to many promoters about it, so hopefully things will pop off and it will show what we can do. A lot of people think that females can’t work together; that they don’t support hip hop, but that’s not true.

What was it like to be in the studio together?
CT: We had a ball!
RD: We each had our own batches of songs ready made before we started the mixtape so we only came together to do the collaborations. That was a fun night! There was a lot of smoke in the air and some good vibes.
CT: One of the things I loved is that I’ve worked with females before and they sometimes are skeptical of each other and it takes a while to get comfortable with each other.
RD: We were friends already so we didn’t have to worry about letting our guard down and being ourselves. It’s been love from day one. We talked about world politics and it took about 10 hours to start recording. At about 4am we’d be like ‘Okay, let’s start writing!’

You’ve been using MySpace to promote the mixtape. How important do you think it is to connect with listeners on a personal level?
CT: I’m managed by MySpace and I love it. I think that Tom [MySpace technical expert] is the greatest. It enabled me to get in touch with the world. I think that it’s a great advertising tool; I’ve made so many contacts from all over the world. The mixtape is already doing well and it’s not even available in the stores or on the streets.
RD: I’m thinking what the hell can I sell online?! I love MySpace too. I have my own website as well www.rahdiggamusic.com, where I’m selling all the songs that I haven’t released. I get like 4,000 requests a week and I used to have an intern running it, but it got even too much for her, so I try and answer the mail myself now. I don’t think the world is clear on who manages Rah Digga; I’m always put under the Busta Rhymes umbrella but people don’t realise I have my own management and team outside Flipmode and Violator. Tom is a genius. I’ve tried to talk to him personally but he keeps sending me to the technical site.

Thai, you’ve been rapping for a long time now, but we haven’t seen you in the spotlight. Why did you choose now to be your time?
CT: I haven’t heard anything that I wanna hear from labels, so as an independent artist I toured Europe without having an album. I knew that the project would work. Even if a label had this project it wouldn’t have been out this soon due to politics. If we’re paid with the right money we’ll make a full fledged album together.

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Chocolate Thai by Shejay
That Real McCoy Femcee... (November 28, 2006)

Interview by Starrene Rhett (Re-use by permission from www.femmixx.com)

Duly noted for her superior free styling ability, Chocolate Thai is most popular for her appearance on Showtime’s series Interscope Presents: The Next Episode. Making it to the final round, she definitely proved herself a tour de force in Hip-Hop. Also the first female winner of End Of the Weak’s (E.O.W.) MC Challenge, a competition that tests skills on five levels including written songs, lyrical content, freestyle ability, acappella and flow, Chocolate Thai chatted with Femmixx.com and hip-hop and what it’s like as an estrogen charged being on the mic.

Starr: From reading your bio it sounds like music played a big role in your family, what was it like growing up and how did that play into you becoming an emcee?

Chocolate Thai: My family wasn't really musical. My uncle was a MC and DJ and was part of a group that was almost signed, but his partner got locked up so they lost the deal. I listened to a lot of hip-hop when he practiced DJing. I heard MC Lyte, and Salt n Pepae and it was over for me. Nobody taught me to write I just learned how long the verses were and started writing verses then songs. My uncle was surprised by what I was doing by the time he heard me spit for the first time.

S: This question is cliché for obvious reasons, but do you think that being a female emcee has made your journey in hip-hop a little more difficult than if you were a male?

CT: Absolutely not. I'm happy you asked that. Maybe as far as getting on a label, but being a female MC is great, and an advantage if anything. Every time I touch the mic, and hit the stage, all eyes and ears are on me. I get more attention than a guy, everyone is used to seeing a guy, so I have the peoples’ attention in a big way and it’s up to me if they ride with me. Even if they don't like me, they listen and that's priceless!

S: With that said, is this industry harder on females in general or do you think it's all in the mind?

CT: I think the industry, not the fans, are harder on the girls, they think they should look, dress, talk, and rap about the same thing; trying to box us all in. Just being a woman means there are many different parts and moods and feelings we have but it seems the industry is only concerned with one, the naked broad, but that's not working and hasn't been working. If you're not respected then you have nothing. The guys will look for a second, but they will not buy and support you because you're coming across like a chicken to them.

S: Why do you think the presence of estrogen is so lacking in this industry? Is it because women don't stick together or are they just afraid?

CT: I can't say why there's a lack of women but my lawyer, Lisa Davis is a strong black woman. I see a few strong women, Sylvia Rhone, Mona Scott, Jillian Fleer, creator of the TV series I did, so I try not to worry about anyone else male or female. I believe hard work pays off no matter who you are.

S: Back to the creativity part. Do you produce as well?

CT: I wish I could produce. I wear too many hats to do any of that but I'd like to learn ProTools.

S: What projects are you working on?

CT: I am currently getting my mixtape Outbreak out there to the people, on-line, and in the streets. I’m also prepping to drop my project The Real McCoy overseas (in January). It features the Living Legend MC Lyte and comes with a DVD. I'm also working on taking this thing global, and plan on hitting the road hard.

S: Sounds like you have some big things in the works. However, if you could, what would you change about the game?

CT: I'd make it less political, it’ too political. The average fan would be heartbroken to know how things really go, because I’m even a heart broken fan, but I believe this is the dawn of a new day. I think the fans are going to take back the music by not supporting artists they are “supposed to,” but the artists they like. And with the creation of the ipod and myspace, the internet is giving the people their voice on who and what they like.

S: What separates Chocolate Thai from everyone else?

CT: I'm unique because I do what I want. I came in no politics; no crew; no co-sign, I came just spitting. I think only I say the stuff I say and most of it in a round about way is off the top of my head. I freestyle, I write, and I'm on stage like Jay-Z by myself. I'm not saying I'm the best but I work hard and I think it shows. I just do me, and there's only 1 me, so that's what makes me unique. I truly care about the game; this is our music!

S: How do you know when you hear the perfect track for you?

CT: I know a beat is for me when its energetic, lots of change up, up tempo and has a big swagga. The swagga is the part that's hard. I think cats usually see a guy spitting on their beats. Not to say I want a girly beat, but I don't like - Interview by Starrene Rhett (Re-use by permission from www.femmixx.com)