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Have you always wanted to go to a gig in a bathrobe? Well now is your chance: Hip-hop duo Uzi Freyja performs from the La Fontaine steam baths in Le Mans, France.

Hammam Session

Uzi Freyja

Sometimes all it takes is one song to become famous overnight. Sexxy Red experienced that with ‘Pound Town’, a track that earned her a lot of love and a fair amount of dislike. Hostility hasn't deterred the rapper, quite the contrary: true to her image as a ‘ghetto diva’, the American rapper says out loud what others dare not think.

splash! Festival 2024

Sexyy Red

<p>Have you always wanted to go to a gig in a bathrobe? Well now is your chance: Hip-hop duo Uzi Freyja performs from the La Fontaine steam baths in Le Mans, France.</p>

With rapper Sexxy Red, the deep south of the United States comes to Splash! 2024.

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Recorded March 14 2021 at Tournesol swimming pool, Bondy, France.

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Recorded March 14 2021 at Tournesol swimming pool, Bondy, France.

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Go_A

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Colin Benders

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Passengers: Paris Metro

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Jungle

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Quincy Jones

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Nina Simone

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