At first blush, the mere idea of a Big Freedia gospel album sounds like musical Mad Libs. After all, Freedia is the queen of New Orleans bounce music, an ass-shaking, party-starting hip-hop dynamo; ...

Big Freedia may be best known as the queen of bounce music, a New Orleans icon, and the standout feature on Beyonce's "Break My Soul." For now, anyway. With her new album, Pressing Onward, she just ...

*Fuse’s highest-rated unscripted series, “Big Freedia Means Business,” returns this fall from Emmy Award-Winning World of Wonder. According to the news release, special guests this season include Macy ...

A Big Freedia show is typically a twerk-a-thon of booty-bouncing dancers. But throughout the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, fans have seen a different side of the Queen of Bounce. This ...

*Beyoncé is at the center of a new lawsuit over her 2022 hit single “Break My Soul.” Big Freedia (AKA Freddie Ross) is implicated in the lawsuit, accused of incorporating “distinctive lyrics” from Da ...

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has been a question on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword ...