Big Freedia

I'm over twerking.

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I've always liked to dance.

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I've always been indie.

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I'm a beast in the kitchen.

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I'm comfortable with who I am.

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I basically go with whatever my gut tells me.

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

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

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I grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

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Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.

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When I was little I was into gospel music.

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Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.

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Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I still feel like there are so many things that I have to do to really become an icon. I've done a…

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The first club that reopened in New Orleans was Caesar's, and they called me immediately and said let's do a regular night…

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I was young so when I had that job at Burger King, I was still in high school and I just needed…

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I would love to do something with many artists, you know: Fantasia, Cardi B, Lil Wayne, J.Lo, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson. There's…

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Drake and I have built a relationship, vibing and performing together.

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I'd love to work with Snoop Dogg, Skrillex, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar.

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Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.

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I come from the city of New Orleans where it's live and vibrant.

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No one can predict what God is going to do.

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

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