Bounce music is rooted in and inherently connected to New Orleans culture. Bounce music can be categorized as a style of music that originated in the city’s housing projects during the late 1980’s. The backbone of the genre is its use of the “Triggerman” beat, paired with heavy brass band beats and Mardi Gras Indian chants and call and response routines.
Bounce popularized at a club called Ghost Town by MC T. Tucker. Amidst the primary song’s local acclaim for Tucker’s crude live-recording, DJ Jimi studio-recorded a full-length album in 1992 titled It’s Jimi for producer Isaac Bolden’s Soulin’ Records, and included both a more polished version of the original song, which he called “(The Original) Where Dey At,” and a debut feature by rapper, DJ Jubilee, who released “Do the Jubilee All,” a year later. In the 90’s, when the biggest rap hits were coming from the East and West coasts, Bounce was outselling all other hip-hop records in the New Orleans metropolitan area.