I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.
If I'm just trying to get to different levels... and it takes levels to get to levels, and I just have to do what I have to do to keep on climbing the charts and getting where I need to be.
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.
Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.
Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.
I come from the city of New Orleans where it's live and vibrant.
I started travelling doing shows everywhere to make people feel like a sense of New Orleans wherever they may be.
The journey after Katrina, it opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. Coming from a rooftop to going to Hollywood and around the world, internationally teaching people about bounce music, definitely God is good and amazing about what he can do with your life.
I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.
I would love to do something with many artists, you know: Fantasia, Cardi B, Lil Wayne, J.Lo, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson. There's so many of them! All of them are iconic in their own way and to collaborate with any of those artists of that magnitude would be such an honor for me because I grew up listening to them and I love their music.
Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.
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.
Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.
Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.
I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!
For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet.
I'm steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and do some wonderful and great things for the culture of New Orleans.
I was young so when I had that job at Burger King, I was still in high school and I just needed to help out my mom. And help myself because I needed to buy some of my clothes. I did that for about three years and I had became a shift manager working at Burger King, doing my thing. I was young and excited to make my own money.
I'm always working and coming up with new and fresh ideas to keep my fans engaged and keep myself relevant.
I mean you have to work hard to earn respect and make people respect you. When I come to the presence of any room or any place, people give me the most high respects and I'm gracious and appreciative of that.
