★★★★★
For those who have been asleep--or maybe just living outside of New Orleans--Big Freedia is a transsexual rapper of "bounce," a New Orleans-style party music wherein the MC exists almost entirely to tell you exactly how to shake your ass...
- offbeat.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
is inescapably a divisive album. There's no two ways around it. There's very little by way of melody, grandiose artistic concept, lyrical profundity, or anything else that's been the bread and butter of the Western music tradition for the past few eons. It literally consists of "the queen deeeee-va" Big Freedia telling you, the listener, to shake your ass for just over thirty minutes...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-07-08
★★★★★
Take some of the world's more regressive territories out of the picture, and in the same way a rockabilly or reggae group will please the party crowd, a screaming drag queen vogueing over dance music comes with that universal appeal. That's at least when the diva house genre is firing on full-cylinders, like when everyone from the metal heads to the R&B kids were shouting "work!" whenever RuPaul hit the runway with "Supermodel...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-06-27
★★★★★
When Big Freedia began getting booked on the rock club circuit outside of New Orleans a few years ago, her then largely white, hip-focused audience lacked a specific context for the aggressively glitchy lo-fi electronic music she rapped over--never mind the fact that it was a six-foot-tall, regally poised black person of indeterminate gender who was doing the rapping...
- pitchfork.com
2014-06-18
★★★★★
Big Freedia's been the undisputed queen of NOLA's hip-hop sub-genre bounce for over a decade, and while twerking has been grotesquely appropriated by the mainstream and Freedia herself has become a reality TV star (thanks to the GLAAD-award winning ), the artist born Freddie Ross is just releasing her first proper studio album...
- exclaim.ca
2014-06-17