Bounce music

This article is about the style of New Orleans hip hop. For the electro house subgenre, see Melbourne bounce.
Bounce
Stylistic originsSouthern hip hop
Cultural originsLate 1980s–early 1990s, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Derivative forms
Bounce artist Big Freedia performing at New Orleans Jazz Fest 2014

Bounce music is a style of New Orleans hip hop music that is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s in the city's housing projects.[1] Popular bounce artists have included DJ Jubilee, Partners-N-Crime, Magnolia Shorty and Big Freedia.

  1. ^ Miller, Matt (June 10, 2008). "Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997–2007". Southern Spaces.