This call-and-response classic is generally agreed as the first record to feature the word “twerk” - the bootylicious bounce that would eventually catch the world by storm thanks to Ying Yang Twins, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus. I was pretty nice.”ĭJ Jubilee & the Take Fo’ Family, “Jubilee All” (1993) … When ‘Bounce (For The Juvenile)’ came out, I was doing alright. … It was hand-to-hand, but we was making more than the record store. I would come out to the club at the end of the week and we would have bags full of tapes. I had a cassette tape that I had to burn and make copies of myself. “I would put out a tape and outsell anybody who was coming out of New Orleans. I would get a few drinks, get in the studio, and record,” Juvenile told Complex. ‘Yellowjackets’: John Cameron Mitchell on His Trippy Singing-Parrot CameoĭJ Jimi’s album included a liquid sing-song rap that would be a breakout performance by a 17-year-old rapper named Juvenile. Juvenile, “Bounce for the Juvenile” (1993) Opening with a N.W.A interpolation and a Black Sheep sample, “Get the Gat” was an early single that mixed hard-nosed gangstaisms with get-crunk beats.ĭJ Jimi ft. People didn’t want to hear that.” Hitman released only two more songs before he was killed in 1996. We were better at it than any of those other guys, and the positive rap wasn’t poppin’ anymore. “e was one of the first people I knew who started doing gangsta rap in the bars,” Lil Ya told Narratively. Lil Ya of the early Cash Money crew UNLV sees his presence as transformative. The song, written by a 17-year-old, may have helped popularize the word “bounce” itself. This is a wildly offensive, X-rated shock rap in the mold of 2 Live Crew, the early Rap-A-Lot Records roster or New Orleans’ own Bust Down: Listeners offended by lyrics that are racist, sexist, ableist and graphically detailing sexual assault should avoid at all costs. What if we never would have done that shit and opened that door and let that shit out? You all would have been bored as fuck.” The single’s flipside, “Bitches (Reply)” features a female rapper responding to the Tucker/Irv version: You can hear the opening “all right all right all right” interpolated by Outkast and Project Pat (the latter sampled on Cardi B’s “Bickenhead”).Įverlasting Hitman, “Bounce! Baby Bounce” (1992) “There were two copies, two versions of it. “What that song did, that song made everybody get up,” Jimi told bounce archive Where They At. A post-modern pastiche of samples, chants and repurposed hooks from other records, it would take the sound out of Louisiana’s borders, hitting Number 84 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and spreading to regional scenes across the South. Tucker & DJ Irv, “Where Dey At” (1991)Īfter seeing a local restaurant explode into dancing when Tucker and Irv’s “Where Dey At” came over the radio, industry vet Isaac Bolden recruited DJ Jimi to record a cover. Here are 20 essential songs from the regional sensation that has the whole world shaking. Bounce ambassador Big Freedia has had six seasons of a Fuse reality show, and the word twerk - a dance that originated with bounce - is now in the dictionary.Įven so, there’s never been a moment in pop quite like this summer, when Drake’s bounce-influenced “Nice for What” (which features the voices of both Big Freedia and 5 th Ward Weebie) and “In My Feelings” (which samples late bounce hero Magnolia Shorty) are trading places as the Number One song in the country. Before that, the high-octane, azz-centric dance music has been a cultural force for decades, its rhythms and key players launching the empire of Cash Money Records and dotting hit records by Lil Wayne and Juvenile. It’s been a strong few years on the charts for New Orleans bounce, as songs like Beyoncé’s “Formation,” N.E.R.D.’s “Lemon” and Cardi B’s “Bickenhead” have borrowed its signature beats, sounds, voices and chants.
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