Literally getting in “Formation” might very well have been by the reason New Orleans’ “Bounce Queen” (Big Freedia) got information pulled on her.
If you remember, just last month, Beyonce dropped her hot, controversial video and song Formation which included snippet sound bites of Messy Mia and Big Freedia’s voice talking all kinds of fly bravado and cash money sh\t-that too, fit the song’s [quote] “fly and cocky fresh” [end quote] lyrics (and meaning).
Well while all that may be fine and good, and getting on a Beyonce track is well worth a cause for celebration:
…when somebody like Beyonce brags that she could get your song played on the radio [and that] you just may be a black Bill Gates in the making,
I might get your song played on the radio station, cause I slay
I might get your song played on the radio station, cause I slay
You just might be a black Bill Gates in the making, cause I slay
I just might be a black Bill Gates in the making
…you had better listen, because as it turns out-Big Freedia is the one with [what Beyonce coined] the “hot sauce in my bag swag.”
Although getting on Formation commands the cause worth celebrating, when you’re on a Section 8 government housing subsidy + getting your name out there while collecting coins from all sides, the government might want to get information too.
Reportedly, the U.S Attorney’s Office charged Big Freedia (whose government name is Freddie Ross Jr.,) was charged with withholding his income from 2014 to 2014 in order to get a pro rated rent subsidized housing voucher [during 2010-2014].
Big Freedia is charged with lying about how much money he was raking in upon each annual renewal and reportedly received $34,000 worth of assistance when during that 2010-2014 time, his income exceeded the subsidized housing limit.
Big Freedia’s rise to fame came when first appearing on HBO’s “Treme” spreading the New Orleans culture of bounce. As walks Freedia appeared on national talk shows and got his own reality show on the Fuse Network (in 2013).
More recently, Freedia made international news by being involved in a
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Media Maestro .
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