Talib Kweli and Big Freedia Talk Homosexuality In Hip-Hop, The Beginnings Of Bounce, New Orleans After Katrina, And Working With Drake, Mannie Fresh, And Beyonce

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode of People's Party with Talib Kweli, Bounce legend Big Freedia sits down with Kweli and Jasmin Leigh to talk about her career, enduring homophobia in rap music, her concert series in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, her documentary Freedia's Got A Gun, and more. The episode dives deep on serious issues and adds fantastic insight into some of Freedia's most high-level collabs -- from Drake to Beyonce. If you're interested in bounce, Southern rap, and some of the bigger social issues where the genre needs to improve, this is the episode for you.

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0:00.0	Subparty people is Tyler quality to BKMC the MCO and Jasmine Lee and we want to wish you a happy holiday season
0:07.4	No matter what or how you celebrate
0:09.2	We will be taking two weeks off to be with our families and plot the next moves for people's party the world's best podcast
0:15.7	We will be off the week of December 28th and January 4th
0:19.5	Stay warm share love take care of yourselves and take time to regroup after this painful strange year
0:25.6	Much love party people
0:27.1	Thank you for your loyalty and your support. We will see you in 2021
0:43.7	What's our party people in a place to be is Tyler quality to BKMC the MCO. This is the world's best podcast to people's party
0:51.1	I got the world's best co-host Jasmine Lee how you feeling Jasmine?
0:54.8	I'm feeling good. I'm stretching over here. Are you stretching? Oh because you about to be popping and shaking and getting it all the way in right
1:02.4	Yes, man. That's my life. We will get into that balance music. We have many fresh on we talked a little bit about bounce bounce music
1:08.8	But we go get deeper and deeper into the bounce music
1:12.8	This guest is from the city of New Orleans one and most important cities in history music this guest is
1:20.2	Essential to the New Orleans Bowsam
1:24.2	Uh, this guest was sampled by little Wayne the song jitter my system
1:29.2	Songs like rock around the clock the album was queen diva when Katrina hit New Orleans
1:36.0	This guest became legendary for how she rushed back to the city performing seven days a week two shows a night helping the heel the city
1:44.0	From that was suffering from tremendous pain because of her in kakachina
1:47.8	And we definitely go get into that. She's had two more albums this queen diva forks did the plays third-board bounce in 2018
1:54.9	It was a beloved project. Lizzo was on it louder just dropped the master teeth
2:00.0	Which interestingly enough is the day the quarantine started. We're talking about an artist who's been shot and out
2:06.3	By and worked with artists like little Wayne dip blow drake
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