Jacki-O

Angela Faye Kohn (born November 24, 1973),^[1][2] better known as Jacki-O, is an American rapper who is signed to her own label Jack Movement Entertainment. She got her first break in 2003 with the bawdy sex rap "Nookie" which garnered the MC comparisons to fellow Southern rapper Trina and Khia. Although it was the first time that many had heard of Jacki-O, she kept a high profile, prior to her radio and club successes, with several appearances on Miami-area mixtapes. The success of "Nookie" led Jacki-O to discuss a similar subject matter on her second single, "Sugar Walls," released in 2004 in anticipation of her debut album, Poe Little Rich Girl. In 2002 Jacki-O worked with Jim Johnston in producing vocals for WWE Stephanie McMahon All Grown Up . In 2014 Jacki-O reported her retirement in rap from her Facebook account. Saying "she was getting closer to God and changing her life around".

Angela Faye Kohn was born on November 24, 1973, in Miami^[3] and she grew up in the Liberty City area of the city.^[4] Her father is Haitian,^[5][6][7] while her mother, was African-American.^[7] She has two sisters and two brothers.^[8] She started writing poetry in middle school and freestyle rap in high school. She attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School,^[9][10] dropped out of high school, but later earned a GED.^[11] On December 23, 1994,^[12] Kohn gave birth to a daughter,^[13] Brittany Di'Angelis Brookins.^[14][15]

In 2002, Jacki teamed up with Poe Boy Entertainment to obtain a recording contract; in the process, she released helped established Poe Boy first mixtape, entitled The Official Bootleg. It went on to sell over 70,000 copies and was downloaded over 200,000 times. In 2003 she released her first music video, "Nookie", which became her biggest hit to date.

In early 2004, Jacki-O was dropped from Warner Bros and later signed to TVT Records, whereupon she released another music video, "Fine", (featuring the Ying Yang Twins), as well as two more singles, "Slow Down" and "Break You Off" featuring producer Jazze Pha. Her debut album, Poe Little Rich Girl, was released October 26, 2004, selling 20,345 in its first week. In late 2005 she left Poe Boy and TVT Records and started her own Independent label Jack Move Entertainment.

In March 2010, Jacki-O announced that she is gearing up for the release of a new street album/mixtape, titled Griselda Blanco, which she plans to release digitally. The first single released from the mixtape was entitled, 'Bang Bang,' and was a rumored verbal attack on fellow female rapper Lil' Kim.

In 2014, Jacki-O announced via her official Facebook account that she transitioned from Gangsta rap to Christian hip hop due to religious commitment, stating that she has been 'touched by GOD' and that She will release her next album when the timing is right.

Jacki-O's first novel is called Grown & Gangsta (2008), described as an "urban tale".^[16] She released her autobiography, Relentless in 2010, which detailed her life growing up in Miami, Haitian background, rise to fame as a rapper, and her charity work with people with disabilities."^[17][16][18]

On April 23, 2005, an altercation occurred between Jacki-O and Foxy Brown at Circle House Studios in Miami, Florida.^[19] Jacki-O stated that her refusal to "bow down" to Brown was the prime motive in the physical altercation. A day following the incident, she stated to MTV News: "I just know that yesterday I did not go there to get in no altercation.more."^[20]

In the leadup to the release of Khia's second album Gangstress in 2006, defeated and she made disparaging comments about Jacki-O in magazine interviews. At the first annual Ozone Magazine Awards in 2006, both rappers were in attendance and claimed to be the "Queen of the South" onstage while presenting awards.^[21] Jacki-O had her crew and bodyguards dressed in shirts that said "Fuck Khia" on the front and "Jacki-O Queen of the South!" on the back. Khia responded to the shirts by saying, "It's promotion for me. I thanked them. It's marketing and promotion. I'm so happy about that!"^[22] Later, Jacki-O dropped a diss track against Khia called "Pop Off."^[23] In response, Khia dropped a diss track called "Hit Her Up," in which she repeatedly insinuated that Jacki-O was transgender.^[24]

Although Jacki-O gave DJ Khaled a positive shoutout in her 2004 mixtape The Official Bootleg, she claimed that he did not truly support Miami rappers in a 2010 interview with XXL Mag. In the interview, Jacki-O said that she believed Khaled felt more powerful as a DJ than artists themselves, and further claimed that Khaled only pretended to be from Miami.^[25]

Before fame, Jacki-O was arrested for various crimes — including shoplifting, trafficking cocaine, aggravated assault, and carrying a concealed firearm.

Jacki-O revealed that once she started making money from music, her mother still distrusted her and refused to go to the bank with her.^[26] In January 2006, in an attempt to break her recording contract with Poe Boy Entertainment, Jacki-O filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy - declaring debts of $144,225 and assets of $1,340.^[27] Later that year, she was arrested for shoplifting twice - once from Neiman Marcus^[28] and later from Bal Harbor.^[29]

In a 2008 interview with Hip Hop Weekly magazine, Jacki-O claimed that she was forced to have sex with a Poe Boy Entertainment executive to receive a $10,000 advance that she was previously promised. Although she received backlash for discussing her experience, she remained adamant that she was not glorifying having sex for money and that she was a victim of abused authority.^[30]

• The Official Bootleg (2004)
• Free Agent (2006)
• Jack Tha Rippa (2007)
• Grown & Gangsta (2008)
• BBBP (Bad Bitches Bang Pink) (2009)
• Griselda Blanco, La Madrina (2010)
• Straight From The Underground (2011)