I first saw Tia Nomore freestyle at a warehouse party in Oakland about three years ago. Unbeknownst to anybody there, she was still a high schooler at the time. She grabbed the mic and dropped a rapid-fire verse a cappella, and the image of this fearless tomboy with an arsenal of witty disses stuck in my mind. So last year, when she was chosen for Thizzler's Bay Area Freshman 10 list (a yearly round-up of promising local talent that has helped launch the careers of artists like Sage the Gemini and G-Eazy), I knew my hunch about this precocious young rapper had been correct.
