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Khari Nixon

New York

Music Editor at The Source

Articles

  • Aug 28, 2023 | flipboard.com | Khari Nixon

    Jordan Ward is from St. Louis, Missouri – or Missoura, depending on where you’re from. But today, in the back of a Suburban prowling down a …

  • Aug 28, 2023 | spin.com | Khari Nixon

    Jordan Ward is from St. Louis, Missouri – or Missoura, depending on where you’re from. But today, in the back of a Suburban prowling down a sun-drenched stretch of Kent Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he sounds nothing like it.

  • Jun 6, 2023 | spin.com | Khari Nixon

    Cover StoryOn his new record 'Michael,' Killer Mike finds his inner selfKiller Mike, for all the menace his name suggests, is quite a gracious man. His smile is robust. It begins as what looks like a sly grin then widens almost infinitely until it nearly envelopes his face. It’s resilient. It doesn’t disappear suddenly like a forced red carpet grin. It regresses rather intentionally, as if it has to remind each of the muscles in Mike’s jaw of their original resting positions.