More than a decade before the word “twerk” entered the global lexicon, Big Freedia had been proselytizing the dance and bounce music — an uptempo strain of hip-hop popularized in New Orleans in the early 1990s — throughout New Orleans and beyond. The rapper-singer earned national acclaim in recent years with Big Freedia: Queen…

Source: RollingStone
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