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“There's so much fashion out there, and I'm so busy, sometimes it's even hard to look at TV to see who's wearing what.”

“Twerking is just limited to a certain, specific dance where it's hand on the knees and you're busting open. With bounce music, we do a whole lot more and everyone is so unique in the way that they move and their personality.”

“I always try to have my hair and my nails did no matter what. As long as that's done, putting an outfit and some shoes together, and a little makeup, that's nothing.”

“I'm an artist who happens to be gay.”

“You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you're in the zone.”

“Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.”

“There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just because I'm a gay artist, they don't have to put it in a category or label it.”

“Drake and I have built a relationship, vibing and performing together.”

“Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.”

“I basically go with whatever my gut tells me.”

“I can't pull back. I'm 6 foot 3, I'm tall, and I'm gay. I light up the room.”

“Bounce is a primarily call-and-response style of hip-hop over a 'Trigger Man' beat. It's a New Orleans-created hip-hop style that developed in the late '80s, early '90s.”

“When I go shopping, I try to specify certain things for certain events, but most of the time, I have so much stuff to pull from at home in the closet.”

“Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.”

“Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.”

“It has to do a lot more than just twerking. It's feel good music; it makes people have a good time. It doesn't matter what type of situation they're in, we bounce all around New Orleans. Weddings, birthday parties, funerals. The whole nine yards, and it's a happy music, it turns people from a frown to a happy smile.”

“I draw my strength from my mom, who passed away a few years ago. She taught me from the day I was just a little boy to never give up and be proud of who I am.”

“Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.”

“Real twerkers can use their knees for support.”

“I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.”