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When I was little I was into gospel music.

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I got my style from my mom, she was a classy lady.

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I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

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My mother was my rock and my inspiration.

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Performing has always been a natural part of me.

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Real twerkers can use their knees for support.

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Everyone has a butt. No matter what size it is, you can work it.

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Me and Drake and all his people hung out. I had the whole club jumping.

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When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

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I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody…

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I'm a performer, so when I get to any space, I make it my own for that moment and have fun.

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Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.

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For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet.

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I'm always working and coming up with new and fresh ideas to keep my fans engaged and keep myself relevant.

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I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

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My church people supported me when I made my transition from gospel to bounce and that made it a lot easier.

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That was one thing my mama instilled in me: to be well trained in the kitchen. Growing up, I was always in…

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I've grown in tremendous ways with enhancing my music, my ability to perform on stage and travel all around to spread bounce…

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Generally, I cook from the soul and measure by eye, throwing in this and that along the way. But I want to…

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You can see yourself in the mirror. You can see how you want your body to move. Everybody wants to look sexy…

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I mean you have to work hard to earn respect and make people respect you. When I come to the presence of…

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Bounce is a primarily call-and-response style of hip-hop over a 'Trigger Man' beat. It's a New Orleans-created hip-hop style that developed in…

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Duffy is go hard or go home. It's just a concept that I wanted to have when we're doing different things. When…

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I was so big, so I had to always come up with my own creations. Like, when I would do junior prom…

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First and foremost, I'm human. I'm a person.

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I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the…

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I loved listening to music around the house with my mom on Saturday mornings when we would clean up.

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Beyonce has a platform; what's a better way to speak on your platform than through your music?

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I love Red Bull, they support everything that I do. They always support music and they're always pushing music.

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The bigger artists are definitely looking and paying attention to the culture and the style of bounce music.

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Bounce is taking flight all over the globe. New York especially, and L.A., Canada, Portland, Washington. It keeps getting bigger and bigger.

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I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

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I can't pull back. I'm 6 foot 3, I'm tall, and I'm gay. I light up the room.

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Being a big kid, I was kind of fat and chubby, and I got picked on quite a bit.

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There's so much fashion out there, and I'm so busy, sometimes it's even hard to look at TV to see who's wearing…

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I'm steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and do some wonderful and great things for the culture of New Orleans.

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I've always loved to cook. It helps me to relax and gives me peace. It's my nourishment.

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When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

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I started travelling doing shows everywhere to make people feel like a sense of New Orleans wherever they may be.

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Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don't twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we…

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