It’s 2019 and Bounce music has become more mainstream than ever. With several artists using the beats from; Chris Brown, to Beyonce, to the City Girls. People all over are now bopping to the music that New Orleanians have loved for decades.
Starting out in the late 1980s bounce was introduced as a call-and-response dance music that coined famous terms like “twerk”. Many emcees have come and gone over time but we’ve all enjoyed the music from T.T. Tucker, DJ Jubilee, Cheeky Blakk, Katey Redd, Magnolia Shorty and many more. Some of the most famous New Orleans artists have been influenced by bounce including Juvenile, Manny Fresh, Lil Wayne and even Master P.
From the original bounce artists to the more recent ones, Shive Magazine wanted to give you a little history in bounce while finding out how some of these artists and DJs felt when it came to bounce being mainstream.
