Death, Sex & Money - In New Orleans: Big Freedia Bounces Back
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Big Freedia is a reality TV star and fixture on New Orleans' bounce scene. But days after Hurricane Katrina, she was sleeping on the street outside of the city's convention center.
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| 0:00.0 | Once, you know, it was approved by mom, there was no other worries. |
| 0:04.8 | Brothers, sister, uncles, A.T.'s, none of them didn't matter if they accepted me or not, long as mom did. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Death, Sex, and money in New Orleans. |
| 0:23.9 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:34.5 | And I'm standing on Painter Street in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. |
| 0:39.9 | It's windy and it's hot. |
| 0:42.9 | Do what you do? |
| 0:44.2 | How do you introduce yourself? |
| 0:45.5 | We just introduce yourself into the microphone. |
| 0:47.8 | Big Frida, the Queen Diva, the dick eater, your best believer. |
| 0:53.5 | Big Frida is one of the biggest stars of New Orleans bounce music. |
| 1:02.8 | Bounce started in the late 80s and early 90s. |
| 1:09.6 | It's a New Orleans brand of thumping, bass-heavy hip-hop that you move your hips to. |
| 1:14.8 | Oh, yeah, cutting up shaking. |
| 1:16.9 | Cutting it loose. |
| 1:21.6 | In the late 90s, Big Frida was among a new crop of queer performers who started dominating the local bounce scene. |
| 1:28.4 | And as she and other artists moved outside New Orleans in the years after Katrina, so did bounce. |
| 1:33.9 | It just be like so surreal that I'm just like a bounce artist. |
| 1:38.7 | Like it never was in the plan. |
| 1:41.3 | I guess it was destined to happen. |
| 1:46.1 | Big Frida was born Freddie Ross. When she started performing, she picked the name Big |
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