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Washington, D.C. dance music trio Too Free — Awad Bilal, Carson Cox, and Don Godwin — are Rolling Stone‘s latest Artist You Need to Know. In a new video for the series, the group brings us inside their D.C. homes, their studio, and Bilal’s grandmother’s house, to give us a glimpse into how the streets and sidewalks of Washington, D.C. helped shape their sound.
“We intentionally wanted to make songs that just gave so much love back,” says Bilal, who played Too Free’s last show...
“We intentionally wanted to make songs that just gave so much love back,” says Bilal, who played Too Free’s last show...
- 6/18/2020
- by Reed Dunlea
- Rollingstone.com
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It was Memorial Day weekend 2011, and Awad Bilal was twerking in front of a thousand people.
Bilal was a touring dancer for New Orleans bounce queen Big Freedia at the time, and the band had rolled into a university-organized festival in Hartford, Connecticut, where they’d be opening for Snoop Dogg. Freedia is known for putting on a fabulous spectacle of a show, surrounded by a cadre of young, athletic dancers throwing their asses to cult hits like “Gin In My System” — and as Bilal recalls, the audience of “weird...
Bilal was a touring dancer for New Orleans bounce queen Big Freedia at the time, and the band had rolled into a university-organized festival in Hartford, Connecticut, where they’d be opening for Snoop Dogg. Freedia is known for putting on a fabulous spectacle of a show, surrounded by a cadre of young, athletic dancers throwing their asses to cult hits like “Gin In My System” — and as Bilal recalls, the audience of “weird...
- 6/17/2020
- by Reed Dunlea
- Rollingstone.com
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