Shorty visited the OffBeat offices last week to tell us why he’s particularly excited about this Threauxdown. “I was talking to Juvenile—actually, it was his idea and my idea—to do a Hometown Threauxdown. I said, ‘Maybe if I do the Hometown Threauxdown, we can have more people that’s not on tour with us.’ I just wanted to put that together and celebrate our hometown.” The show, he says, will give him an opportunity to celebrate the work he’s done with an array of New Orleans performers representing genres ranging from traditional jazz to hip-hop and hints of styles in between.

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