Big Freedia  Image from Discogs  If “gay rapper” is an oxymoron where you come from, how to get your head around the notion of a gay rapper performing in a sports bar? What in most cities might seem plausible only as some sort of Sacha Baron Cohen-style provocation is just another weeknight in the cultural Galapagos that is New Orleans. Sometime after midnight on the sweltering Thursday before Memorial Day, the giant plasma-screen TVs at the Sports Vue bar (which “proudly airs all major Pay Per View events from the world of Boxing and Ultimate Fighting”) were all switched off, and the bar’s backroom turned into a low-lit, low-ceilinged dance club, where more than 300 people awaited a return engagement by Big Freedia, who by day runs an interior-decoration business and who is, to fans of the New Orleans variant of hip-hop music known as “bounce,” a superstar. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. Artist biography from last.fmUpcoming gigs:
Sat 30 Sep 2023 | Big Freedia: Fried Chicken Festival , New Orleans, LA, United States |  RSVP | Sun 1 Oct 2023 | Big Freedia: Cimafunk at The Blue Note NYC - Special Guest Appearance , New York, NY, United States |  RSVP | Wed 4 Oct 2023 | Big Freedia: ADL CONCERT AGAINST HATE , New Orleans, LA, United States |  RSVP | Fri 6 Oct 2023 | Big Freedia: Beat The System - Special Guest with Ife , New Orleans, LA, United States |  RSVP | Sat 7 Oct 2023 | Big Freedia: Grove Fest , St. Louis, MO, United States |  RSVP |
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