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Virginia rapper McKinley Dixon sat down with us at SXSW this year to talk about his new LP Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?, arriving June 2 via City Slang.

[center] [img]https://i117.fastpic.org/big/2022/0508/a0/82d88c4bfb8df50548338c592f1401a0.png[/img] [b]Total tracks[/b]: 200 | [b]Size[/b]: 1.33 GB | [b]Formats[/b]: mp3 [/center] [center] [quote] [b]Album[/b]: Rap & Hip Beats [b]Artist[/b]: VA [b]Genre[/b]: Rap, Hip-Hop [b]Date[/b]: 2022 [/qu...

Alerts Clockwise from top left: Pharoah Sanders (Photo: Dimitri Hakke), Jazmine Sullivan (Photo: Getty Images), Julien Baker (Photo: Getty Images), Mogwai (Photo: Getty Images), Olivia Rodrigo (Getty Images) Graphic: Natalie Peeples Whoever said artists should have to suffer for their art? Presumably, someone who never had to suffer much. Musicians, like writers, are still too often tagged with this bizarre assumption that creating their art should require an arduous grappling with their muse, ...

Published May 03, 2021 9 Death hangs heavy in the mind of rising Virginia rapper McKinley Dixon. In 2018, his best friend was killed, which Dixon describes as feeling like "brass knuckles with shards of broken home to the dome," on "make a poet Black," the lead single from For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her. The weight of this death can be felt from the first moments of opening track "Chain Sooo Heavy." Dixon is a wordsmith in full command of both narrative and atmosphere, and while this...