A lot of your older artists are saying that it’s faggot music. Ain’t no such thing as faggot music. If I’m a boy and I’m singing about me loving this boy, I’m not saying I love this boy just for me — I’m saying it so all the girls can sing along too. Remember, in order for you to get a party packed, you’ve got to bring the girls, who are going to bring the boys. So let me be the one to make the music for the girls, so they can sing to your ass and get you here.
— 10th Ward Buck, excerpt from The Definition of Bounce: Between Ups and Downs in New Orleans
(photograph by Jordan Blanton)
