Big Freedia

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

The first 10 years of my journey, I was still figuring out who I was, and then I had to redo it all over again when I became bigger. So instead of saying, 'I'm gay and this is me,' I started telling the story through my music.

I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, 'Baby, mama already knows, and I'm going to love you regardless.' Once I got my mom's support, there was nothing else I needed.

I'd love to work with Snoop Dogg, Skrillex, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar.

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

I love Red Bull, they support everything that I do. They always support music and they're always pushing music.

Generally, I cook from the soul and measure by eye, throwing in this and that along the way. But I want to be a certified chef. That's one of my goals.

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.

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

Definitely practice in the mirror before you attempt it. You have to use your body in the upright position, you can use your knees for support and that's the only way you can twerk.

I grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

People should be able to do what they want in life and not be judged or put in a box or a category.