Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rapper, entrepreneur and TV personality Big Freedia spoke with theGrio’s Marc Lamont Hill about new music, new ventures and ...

PROVIDENCE – Big Freedia, the New Orleans MC and bounce music icon, and Grammy-winning R&B artist and Providence native Butch Tavares will be among the lineup of performers at the 2026 PVDFest in ...

For the former, Freedia took to social media and YouTube to produce modest-though-beloved cooking videos, showing viewers how she makes various favorites, like biscuits. For the former, Freedia wrote ...

I realized it was the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as I waited for Big Freedia to pick up the phone. We’re a decade out, that awkward point at which we’re supposed to never forget, but the ...

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For most people, it would take a lot of convincing to visit a supposedly haunted former insane asylum. But for Big Freedia, it required nothing more than an invitation from her “baby, Kesha.” ...

Big Freedia is the New Orleans bounce artist whose guest vocals have mind-blowingly elevated Beyoncé’s new single, “Break My Soul.” Bey dropped the single a few hours earlier than expected on June 20 ...

Freedia's full-length album Just Be Free was released in 2014, led by the single "Explode," reintroducing Freedia, and bounce, to a worldwide audience: "I am more than just Big Freedia. I am more than ...

If you’re lucky like me, your introduction to Big Freedia involved a dance floor, reverberating speakers, and a sweaty cohort of co-twerkers. The triggerman beat crept quickly into your body and took ...

Big Freedia has successfully made the world high from her music, including Queen Bey's hit 'Break My Soul'. Now, she's making it easier to get elevated...in other ways. In a news release shared with ...

Big Freedia had a fangirl moment while meeting with “very humble” and “sweet” Beyoncé. The Queen of Bounce, 44 — who was previously sampled on Beyoncé’s 2016 track, “Formation” — met with Queen Bey ...

This weekend, Freedia is scheduled to turn Hattiesburg, Mississippi into bounce music's center of the universe for a well-publicized "international twerk day" concert. As in the movie Footloose, a ...