I said, shake that ass, shake that ass
from MC T.T. Tucker & DJ Irv – Where Dey At Lyrics on Rap Genius
Right off the bat, Tucker establishes several of the key lyrical points of bounce music:
The call and response lyrical form. The idea of call and response has a long history in African-American music and also shows up in another grand New Orleans tradition, that of the Mardi Gras Indians, whose famed chants likewise have a heavy call and response element, as in perhaps the most famous example of an Indian chant-turned-song, “Iko Iko”
Bounce lyrics are frequently hypersexual, as this chant, among others, makes clear
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