![]() ![]() ![]() I’m at a family cookout and “An Ha, Oh Yeah” is playing from a boom box. In one earlier memory, it’s a sweaty afternoon in 2004. Rapping, chanting, spreading the boisterous city tradition of bounce, a hip-hop style spun off the Showboys’ “Triggerman” beat that all but begs anyone listening to shake their ass. ![]() From now on, I’ll leave this to Freedia and the professionals.Īlthough I’m from New Orleans myself, I can’t tell you the first time I encountered Big Freedia. What else can I say? I don’t have the knees for it. In front of my full-length mirror, I attempted a basic interpretation. Can I tell you that, while preparing to speak with Freedia, I decided to practice twerking, Big Freedia’s signature move, for the very first time? Pull up any video of the performer and her squad at work, and you’ll find Freedia center stage, flanked by experts of the style who move their backsides in gravity-defying rotations, sometimes while standing on their head or with feet planted on a wall as if they’re astronauts on the space station. ![]()
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