Remember St. Mary's dance? Please!
Brothers used to be hopping out of trees

from Gregory D – Buck Jump Time Lyrics on Rap Genius

That would be the annual Homecoming Dance at the city’s St. Mary’s Academy. The all-girls school opened in 1867, and its high school remains all-female, though its elementary and middle schools became co-ed in 2006

The “hopping out of trees” part is true. Seminal N.O. rapper Mia X is an alum, and told bounce chronicler Alison Fensterstock (primary author of the authoritative bounce site Where They At) that folks would in fact do that in order to rob attendees at the big dance

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