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 ...

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 ...

Big Freedia is preparing to roll out her new LP, Central City, and is dropping heat with another hometown hero. The “Queen of Bounce” teamed up with Lil Wayne and Boyfriend for the fourth single off ...

This year will mark the first time in Pride Houston's 48-year history that the festival and parade will kick off Pride Month ...

Big Freedia just added a new spin on a popular nursery rhyme. She appeared and performed a remix to “Row Row Row Your Boat” for the animated children’s series, “Gracie’s Corner.” The new video ...

Recordings from a recent federal court hearing that resulted in bounce rapper Big Freedia being ordered to a halfway house provide a window into the entertainer’s drug use, as well as a judge’s ...

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 ...

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.” ...

The Queen of Bounce opened up about the life of one of her mentees gone too soon – another victim of gun violence. Devin Walker, 17, was featured in Big Freedia's documentary "Freedia Got a Gun" in ...

New Orleans bounce artist and reality TV star Big Freedia got closure in a months-long housing voucher case in which the performer admitted using nearly $35,000 in Section 8 funds. Freedia avoided ...

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 is back and bolder than ever in the new Fuse network show “Big Freedia Means Business.” TheGrio’s Marc Lamont Hill spoke with the hardest twerking diva in the business about juggling new ...