Big Freedia, Ciara team for ‘$100 Bill’

New single available now

Big Freedia is back with more hotness bound to get listeners booty-shakin’. The NOLA Bounce icon unleashed a fiery new single “$100 Bill” featuring Ciara via her label Queen Diva and ADA Worldwide.

The upbeat dance track – driven by sunny guitars, funky bass lines, and bouncy beats – is the perfect ego boost anthem. The lyrics are full of positive affirmations to hype anyone’s inner baddie, with Freedia gassing up audiences chanting “So fresh, so clean! Lookin’ expensive!” while Ciara confidently sings, “Walkin’ lookin’ like a 100-dollar bill, new money that’s how I feel”.

“’$100 Bill’ is about feelin’ like new money hot off the press! Big money! Feelin’ fresh and extra fabulous, but mostly about feeling good in your own skin. Owning your walk, your talk, your scent, your ride, anything that makes you feel like your best self”, says Big Freedia and adds, “Ciara and I have been talking about working together for a while, so this track was perfect with her.”

Ciara adds, “The first time I heard this song I thought the melodies were infectious. But also, even before that, Freedia and I have had such an amazing chemistry since we met, we both talked about working together. I asked Freedia to join my song ‘Winning’, and we definitely had winning energy on that record, and I feel like that energy has continued on $100 Bill. The record is melodic, it’s a song for everyone from little kids to the grandmas, it just makes you feel joy.”

The new single comes at the heels of Freedia’s twerk anthem and celebration of everything New Orleans, “Central City Freestyle.” The dance-floor ready tune provided fans a small taste of what Big Freedia has in store this year.

In mid-April Freedia was also tapped for a special partnership with Netflix for their Strong Black Lead sub-brand to create a “Hey, Queen” bounce remix tied to the streamer’s forthcoming project, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. This month she also made history as the first bounce artist to collaborate with an orchestra, joining the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance at the Orpheum Theatre.

With more music, tour dates, and incredible partnerships in the wings, fans should keep their ears to the ground for what the living legend known as Big Freedia does next.

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn

Buddy Iahn founded The Music Universe when he decided to juxtapose his love of web design and music. As a lifelong drummer, he decided to take a hiatus from playing music to report it. The website began as a fun project in 2013 to one of the top independent news sites. Email: info@themusicuniverse.com