Mannie Fresh is not normally a tuxedo guy.

As the producer behind Cash Money Records’ million-selling — and in the case of Juvenile’s “400 Degreez,” multi-million selling — albums, his attire tends more toward sports jerseys and sneakers.

But he’ll make an exception Friday at the Orpheum Theater when he joins the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for his first-ever symphonic collaboration.

If he didn’t wear a tuxedo, “I would be cheating the audience,” he said recently. “It is a symphony. Even though it’s a different theme, I want to keep some of it traditional.”

Much of the show won’t be. Fresh will deejay two sets of classic — not classical — hits, accompanied by the Louisiana Philharmonic.

Following the LPO’s successful concerts with Big Freedia, the queen diva of bounce, it was p

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