I'm steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and…

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against…

— Maya Angelou

Inside I'm treadin water steady trying to swim ashore.

— Drake

I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.

— Limmy

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

— Big Freedia

It has to do a lot more than just twerking. It's feel good music; it makes people have a good time. It doesn't matter…

— Big Freedia

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

— Big Freedia

Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.

— Big Freedia

I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture.

— Big Freedia

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 the late…

— Big Freedia

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

— Big Freedia

We have a dance in bounce music called 'exercising' where you just open your legs and shake your butt a little bit from side…

— Big Freedia

Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.

— Big Freedia

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

— Big Freedia

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

— Big Freedia

Outside of Bounce, I listen to Beyonce, Sia, Rihanna.

— Big Freedia