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🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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The Queen of Bounce spills the tea on working with Beyoncé and how she keeps herself grounded. Plus, Freedia reflects on the challenges of growing up in New Orleans and surviving Hurricane Katrina.
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0:00.0 | Everybody, I've known this person in my mind for about 15 years. |
0:08.5 | It was the first bounce concert I have ever been to in my life, and it won't be the last. |
0:13.9 | So I'm so excited for you guys to meet the Queen of Bounce, the Queen of the South, the Queen of Everything. |
0:21.7 | Please welcome Big Frida to Just a Sip, everybody. |
0:30.0 | Hi, everybody. |
0:31.5 | I have to be honest, I'm 34 years old. |
0:33.9 | The first time I ever saw you in concert was at Republic in New Orleans. I snuck in at |
0:40.9 | 14 years old and I was amazed at what a performance you put on. But for people who don't know |
0:49.5 | out there, what is bounce music? For me, bounce music is uptempo. It's heavy bass call and respond type music. It's based out of New Orleans. You know, it's a feel good music. It's a party music. You know, when you put on anything bounce, the party atmosphere definitely will change. It will definitely change. And I, you know, I roll with a lot of white women and I love to bring them to a big Frida concert. And they try to dress cute and I'm like, look, if you guys don't sweat when you're there, you're not getting the whole experience. So if I were you, I wear flats. Something comfortable, you know, some tights, some booty shorts, something where the body definitely can move. |
1:28.7 | You need something where you're flexible. There's a few moments I want you to take me to, but the first, |
1:33.8 | everybody has heard that first eight count information. What was it like when you got that phone |
1:40.3 | call from motherfucking Beyonce? First of all, it was unbelievable that, you know, my purpose is called and said that |
1:46.8 | Beyonce wanted your number. |
1:48.2 | I was like, well, girl, why are you still on the phone? |
1:51.1 | Right. |
1:51.7 | Sitting at home waiting for the phone call was a little nerve wracking because I was like, |
1:56.5 | is she going to call now? |
1:57.6 | She's just going to call later, you know. |
1:59.3 | So I'm about by my phone, like, just glued to the phone. |
2:02.0 | And when she finally called, she said, hi, you know, you know who this is? |
2:05.9 | And I'm like, yeah. |
2:07.8 | And I died at home and then came back to life. |
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