Scion, Toyota’s millennial-targeted subsidiary brand, has been a big fan of New Orleans bounce via its media/marketing arm Scion A/V. Earlier this year they sponsored the EP Scion A/V Presents Big Freedia, as well as the video for Freedia’s “Y’all Get Back Now”, and a mix from DJs Rusty Lazer and Brice Nice (the mix [...]
Tag Archives: Katey Red
Sissy Before Sissy: A History of the Dance Called “The Sissy”
October 1, 2011 – 12:16 am
Over a generation before hip-hop dancers at DJ Jubilee’s New Orleans gigs were doing the Sissy Boom to bounce songs, or outré gay rappers Katey Red, Big Freedia, and Sissy Nobby turned the bounce scene on its…um…ear with the hyper-driven spin-off that has come to be known as Sissy Bounce, gay and straight denizens of [...]
Big Freedia: Do Azz I Say
July 1, 2011 – 12:16 am
The last time I met with bounce rapper Big Freedia, in 2009, I’d picked up her and DJ Rusty Lazer (Jay Pennington) at the airport after their second-ever string of New York performances. Before that, Freedia (born Freddie Ross) and I last spoke in the gym of Behrman Elementary on the West Bank, where she [...]
YouTube du Jour: Katey Red
April 15, 2011 – 11:03 am
This is long overdue. Twelve years after bounce rapper Katey Red first began releasing classic songs like “Melpomene Block Party (Punk Under Pressure)” on seminal Take Fo’ Records, she’s finally put out her first official music video. The song, “Where da Melph At,” brings it back to her block party roots, even referencing the same [...]
A Gypsyphonic Christmas
December 16, 2010 – 11:05 am
One of our favorite albums of last year was Nola-Phonic, Vol. 1, the free mixtape from Gypsyphonic Disko (Ben Ellman and DJ Quickie Mart). They’re back with a Gypsyphonic Christmas tune, “Drummer Boy Phonic” featuring Katey Red and Neil Diamond! The new Rock and Roll Hall of Famer meets bounce and the ba-rump-pa-pum-pums will never [...]
A Lucky Bounce
March 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Hip-hop genres flare up and become passé in the blink of an eye, but no style ever truly dies in New Orleans. Late last year, six people were arrested in New Orleans for tagging the graffiti message “Free Lil Wayne” in the French Quarter. It was an odd message of support given that Lil Wayne [...]
Galactic, Ya-Ka-May (Anti- Records)
February 1, 2010 – 12:37 am
When Galactic parted ways with Theryl “Houseman” DeClouet, there was a lot of concern about what the band would become without a front man. Would it jam on Blue Note-like jazz-funk riffs until that well was dry? As From the Corner to the Block and the new Ya-Ka- May suggest, those concerns were right and [...]
Image Counts
January 7, 2010 – 2:43 pm
I’m writing a review of the excellent new Galactic album at the moment, and it includes bounce artists Cheeky Blakk, Big Freedia, Katey Red and Sissy Nobby. It’s ironic (to start with) that a traditionally straight, macho culture like hip-hop’s is represented in New Orleans at the moment by three gay rappers. There’s no question [...]
Katey Red
September 1, 2000 – 12:01 am
There is a myth popular amongst New Orleanians that all music comes from New Orleans. While this may be the slightest exaggeration, it’s true that New Orleans has probably produced more musical innovators than any other single city in the country. From Louis Armstrong to Fats Domino to Master P. New Orleans has a history [...]
