Let me first say i was very very very reluctaunt on doing this post but i could not keep quiet any more and i knew eventually the truth would come out and it has already start to come out but at the end of the day i do stress that Daryl Wilson has not done nothing personally to me and this is not an attack or bashing session on him. This is a review of the 2008 Chocolate City Fest which took place this past weekend during the memorial day weekend festivities.
We are indeed back from the weekend festivities here in Washington DC known as Pride Weekend here. As many of you know and for some of you who dont. DC had 2 seperate events this weekend seperating DC Black Pride. DC Black Pride held their events and DC promoter Daryl Wilson held his which was entitled Chocolate City Fest. Um the weekend overall i must say was interesting and different to say the very least. I guess every year at this time i am in Miami on the beach or would be at Dwight Powell sanctioned Sizzle Miami event, but now being a Washington DC resident i decided to take part in DC since by brother from another tron of whatsthet.com had some much fun last year we swapped place this year so i could expierence the hype of Chocolate City and all of its Chocolate City Men. I was geek up to see all the "advertised" events that were to go on thru out the weekend. Mindu i was warned and warned by several people not to mess with Daryl Wilson because he is a crook and is shady. i will admit Daryl has always been nice to me and has never done anything to me. I promoted his event to the masses told people they need to come and that they would have a great time but everytime i got egg left on my face.
It all first started back in febuary with the Red Party weekend which featured New York from I Love New York it was hyped up as the event to be and thousands would be there i remeber sittin inside of McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant in downtown dc and and tiffany pollard agent asking me how many people do i think would be there and i said oh a few thousand. When i got there and by the time i left i must say at least 100-150 people were their that entire night. Now on Sunday the event was suppose to take place at Love nightclub and "advertised" again win 500 dollars for dressing in all red contest. i would say when i walked in the building of love which has 4 levels and can hold at least 5,000 people had only 50 people which included the security, DJ and staff and was closed at 1am since no one showed up and the event was to go on for another 2 hrs. That was strike one.
The next would be philly where there were suppose to be an expected 2000-3000 men their and 200 people once again showed up to his events i must admit i didnt get their til 1am and again advertised was Lil Mo and City Gym Boys. City Gym Boys were there but he claims that lil mo performed already and due to low attendance the club which was suppose to close at 3 was closed at 2am. Everyone who came to philly for pride came to christopher events because he is the promoter and everyone is familar with him and he packed the house and did massive promotions for his events.
and lastly strike was this weekend it all started at the International Ballroom where "advertised" there was suppose to be the Andrew Christian Underwear Fashion Show you know in talks wit him he told me that Jensen"Wade" Atwood was goin to be in it and a few other people were goin to be in it and there was goin to be a hot body contest and a first ever east coast j-setting competition. I get to the club at 1am cause my roomie was goin to be apart of the show as well and i get in their and to my surprise it was a descent crowd (500) for the most part and DJ Kool Breeze was doin his thing. But again "advertised events did not take place. NO underwear fashion show, no nothing and only 3 of the advertised 20 strippers. Saturday night was a good event had 6 strippers entertaining the crowd and once again DJ Kool Breeze did his thing. but at 3am after Ms. Raquel Lord did her show there was still no Lil Mo and once again i dragged people and told people to come and i am left looking like the ass. The crowd i would say in attendance was about 1200 but numbers for the weekend were still low in comparison to last years events. Sunday's Day time event at Dave & Busters was cute everyone in attendance enjoyed themselves. I did not attend Love Night Club for 2 reason (a) i was tired from working as well as running around all weekend and (b) i was a lil afraid if no name performer didnt show all weekend i just rightful assume that Ms. Stephanie Mills would not show either but to my surprise and from several reports she was there, most people were there watching the ball that took place at the same time upstairs.
But in closing please for the love of GOD if you are goin to advertise events and say that people are goin to be there please let them show up dnt advertise them if you know weeks and months in advance they are not coming. Again these are my opinion of the weekend and the event over the last few months here in DC and dealing with Daryl.
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