New Orleans bounce
New Orleans, Louisiana

Want to find your way around the real New Orleans? Put down the guidebook and just follow the lyrics of Ricky B’s ’90s bounce classic “City Streets (Hey Pocky Way),” where he raps that “on Dorgenois, take a right on Louisa / headed on that I-10 chillin’, I'm out of the Nine, I'm on old Gentilly / and now I'm headed Uptown.” That kind of local flavor defines the music of Ricky B, one of the pioneers who created bounce, a distinctively New Orleans hip hop sound that samples the city’s famous brass bands and Mardi Gras Indian chants, and other Big Easy musical sounds.