Katey Red

Katey Red is the unlikely godmother of bounce music. Katey, a trans rapper who stands over six feet tall and has a penchant for miniskirts, got her start in bounce in the late ’90s, as she explains in this Avant/Garde Diaries video, which itself is rooted in the beat of bounce. ”I gets up, I start beating on the wall. I started saying stuff. … And I just let it rip. I ain’t never stopped.”