Big Freedia

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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Once I started rapping, I had to start dancing more. I had to really use my craft, and take everything I did…

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I draw my strength from my mom, who passed away a few years ago. She taught me from the day I was…

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There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just…

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I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

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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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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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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 grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

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Everybody knows that at a Freedia show, you're definitely going to have some crowd participation, and they're anticipating and waiting for that…

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Everything changed after Katrina. It's a new New Orleans now and I think it's better. It was a wake-up call and it…

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Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.

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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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You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start…

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I always try to have my hair and my nails did no matter what. As long as that's done, putting an outfit…

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It has to do a lot more than just twerking. It's feel good music; it makes people have a good time. It…

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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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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'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 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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Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.

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Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

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

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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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