Christina Lee
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Before a single juror for the YSL trial has been seated,
@neonflag
and I are exploring the prosecution of Young Thug—and all the complex issues surrounding it—in Atlanta.
Trailer for KING SLIME is up on all the podcast platforms. Show debuts August 15.
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Taking comfort in how Jordan Peele was 32 when he started Key and Peele and turned 40 ahead of Us. Fuck being a 30 under 30
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Future in 2015 to Mass Appeal: "I never knew nobody who was legal that made money until my cousin Rico [Wade]."
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It was Rico Wade who auditioned André 3000 and Big Boi to become part of what became the Dungeon Family. He had them come to Lamonte’s Beauty Supply in southwest Atlanta, where he worked at the time.
Without Wade's leadership, Atlanta hip-hop wouldn't be as we know it today.
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"She’d been saving money. She never married or had children in the U.S. because of this dream to go back to Guangdong. By 2020, she was ready to go. The pandemic kept her in the States. A little longer, she thought."
Here's what I learned at the funeral for Daoyou Feng, 44, one of the spa shooting victims. She had no family in U.S., was new to town. Strangers held her funeral.
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Unbelievable. Geek feminist hero Joss Whedon had multiple affairs AND BLAMED THE PATRIARCHY.
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Atlanta has its problems. A reputation for strip clubs and lemon pepper wings isn't one of them.
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Last stop of Rico Wade's funeral procession was Headland and Delowe. Sleepy Brown left his vehicle to wave to the crowd
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“The vibe is gone. They don’t wanna come to a studio knowing that their brothers got locked up out here."
Latest is about Young Thug and Young Thug's Atlanta, for the new print issue of
@TheFaceMagazine
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After his Colin Kaepernick mural was demolished ahead of Super Bowl weekend, Fabian Williams is now painting *seven* murals honoring Colin around town.
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As an Atlanta journalist, I've returned to
@SPEAKERFOXXX
's tour of the city for The Guardian multiple times. I've seen her bring a crowd to a frenzy multiple times. RIP🌹
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If 'Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik' spearheaded a Southern rap movement, “Dirty South” branded it. But if Cool Breeze had his say, he would have done "Dirty South" differently. I profiled the Dungeon Family member for
@RBMA
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THE SUPER BOWL IS IN ATLANTA. NO ONE HERE MOVES LIKE JAGGER.
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As a journalist covering Atlanta hip-hop, I appreciated how often Rico Wade made himself available to talk Organized Noize and how their legacy continues.
Threading some of my favorite examples. First,
@rodneyology
's 2015 profile for
@oxfordamerican
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This kid getting accepted to Harvard at 16 is the feel-good movie of the year
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2014: *Kevin Gates voice* I got six jobs, I don't get tired!
2019: I got six jobs, I'm ... a full-time freelancer??
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Before Speakerfoxxx died, she bridged a generation gap between Atlanta nightlife's past and present, as she nurtured trap's crossover success. My latest for
@RBMA
expands on the legacy she left behind:
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So Migos did a promo shoot for the Hawks game and I just realized that Quavo wore a vintage Christina Aguilera tee
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Last night's Dungeon Family reunion was an unforgettable reminder that ATL doesn't have to lose its soul to thrive.
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Atlanta strip clubs should be preserved as historic sites
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Ten years ago Jeezy filmed his “My President” video. Today Stacey Abrams is tapping into Atlanta's hip-hop community, in hopes of generating the same excitement Jeezy did back then. My latest for
@washingtonpost
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The indictment against YSL is the product of a city that has spent years cultivating a gang stereotype of its own hip-hop community. Latest is my almost-debut for
@vulture
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NRA: Trump will speak at our convention in Atlanta
Atlanta:
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Before he died, Nujabes was upheld as a symbol of consciousness. Now, his hip-hop music is a reminder to breathe — a lifestyle.
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"Sherman was a gift from Santa" is the new "Those who can't do, teach."
OMG my HS friend teaches middle school in atl now and rapped about civil war over migos beat. bad and bougee = mad and losing.😍😍😍😍
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.
@engineerklee
went from being Gucci Mane's intern to Lil Uzi Vert & Playboi Carti's go-to engineer. Her story:
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Atlanta rap — or rap in general — wouldn't be what it is today without Bankhead's contributions.
Inside Poole Palace and Toe Jam, the places that made Bankhead a music destination, for
@canopyatl
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"Once it hit the airwaves, Outkast’s missive was solely aimed at mainstream rap. Yet, because the bombing had yet to cease, “B.O.B.” is to Outkast what 'Born in the USA' is to Bruce Springsteen — cultural commentary mistaken as outright patriotism."
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Ahead of turning 35, I didn't feel any closer to answering questions — about my career, or whether I'd have kids — than I was in my 20s.
One album is helping me extricate myself from this pressure. Wrote about it for
@nprmusic
's Turning the Tables series
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As a spoken-word oracle of sorts, Big Rube can make any rapper's ascent seem predestined. What's funny is that he found his unique place in hip-hop entirely by accident. I profiled the Dungeon Family member for
@pitchfork
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Not-so-gentle reminder that I'm an Atlanta-based freelance journalist who's available for assignments, re: Young Thug. Sick of the shallow reporting and takes I've seen thus far
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@JIDsv
, the latest signee to J. Cole's Dreamville, is boombap revival via OutKast's "Elevators (Me & You)." Expect more of our convo soon.
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"Nine or 10 years ago, I was about to go on tour with Tech N9ne when I saw an ad on Craigslist for scooping litter at the shelter. I was like, Ooh, this will be easy: I play with cats, scoop some litter, get paid. Then I go on tour. That was the plan."
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An idea that T.I. and his business partner had one couples date night turned into a surreal example of trap's lasting impact. Once a pop-up, it's now a singular institution turning one years old.
Wrote about the origins of the Trap Music Museum for
@RBMA
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.
@alextumay
is the only music engineer who can keep up with Young Thug. His journey to rap outer space:
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Thanksgiving was our 8-year anniversary. Got home, called some family. Got off the phone, he plays "Int'l Players Anthem" but couldn't even wait for the beat drop to ask.
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As pop culture catches up with Playboi Carti, Carti may be at an Atlanta tattoo shop, debating whether to get Lil Wayne's face tatted on his arm. Spoke to him about his influence and influences for the cover of
@Inkedmag
's 2021 Music Issue
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The members of Earthgang realizes how privileged their lives may seem, to the folks they know back home. But in Ghetto Gods, they're as committed as ever to representing for their fathers, their cousins, Atlanta.
My latest, for
@nprmusic
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The rap hive mind is so fucking boring
Drizzy, K-Dot, Cole and ??? Who takes the fourth spot on the Mount Rushmore of the 2010s? 👀
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Trap music began as the South's answer to hip-hop's drug dealing music. Today, you might find yourself sumo squatting to Gucci Mane saying "Bitch I might be." Debut
@BOTMpod
episode delves into how trap culture leapt out of the trap:
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Whatever comes to mind when you think of the Atlanta hip-hop sound, you gotta thank Zaytoven for that. Yet this godfather of trap doesn't think you've heard him at his full potential.
My cover story for Red Bull's magazine the Red Bulletin:
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I don't have a Kickstarter so here's a story I wrote in 2013. It features interviews with Jordan Peele, Keegan Michael Key, Peter Atencio, Rebecca Drysdale and Wayne Brady
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First he became an indie rap success story. Then people started shooting him. But make no mistake: Young Dolph hasn't changed.
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You know what haunts me? For years my dad said I should cover K-pop, and I'd reply, "But I don't speak the language." Meanwhile, today I look up and see all the U.S. K-pop experts are white writers who don't speak the language
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Like Donald Glover's Atlanta, Killer Mike's Netflix series Trigger Warning uses pointed wit and wild imagination to reveal bizarre, hard truths about American life. Interviewed the creator and agitator himself for
@AtlantaMagazine
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Pleased to announce Bossip as America's poet laureate of 2019
Let It Perm: Usher’s New Hair Is Getting Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Lop Bam Booed Off The Internet
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"The four victims were female and appear to be Asian."
The fact that a friend (
@ready_ish
) had to check on me after seeing this is deeply fucked up. Gold Spa is next door to where we recorded BOTM.
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My
@AJC
debut: Atlanta rap radio pioneer Ryan Cameron surprised us all when he decided to go off the air. But this isn't goodbye, not when he still has much work left to do.
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2 Chainz's opinion on Benihana is the only opinion on Benihana that matters
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I hated explaining why I'm vegetarian until I discovered that saying “it keeps me regular” shuts folks up the fastest
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For
@AtlantaMagazine
's cover story package of Atlanta women in hip-hop, I spoke to three women driving the conversation:
@yani_mo
,
@MalitaTheMogul
and the first female engineer at
@PatchwerkStudio
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Y'all don't even understand the hard work it took (and is still happening, to be frank) to get to this point
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After becoming the first podcast to explore the YSL trial at length, being Ambies-nominated, etc., iHeartMedia has decided not to renew KING SLIME.
@neonflag
and I will properly sign off April 17, with one last special guest. Thanks to everyone who listened and kept up with us.
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JOURNALISTS: Remember, no matter what, always ask how to spell their name
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I interviewed Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris, Kawan Prather and more — plus took a brief tour of Tyler Perry Studios — about Atlanta as an entertainment mecca, for Delta's in-flight magazine: This is a flex.
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My favorite person in the world isn't even on social media, but it's their birthday and fuck it, I'm feeling sentimental
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Caught up with Killer Mike as he settles into his new role in the High Museum of Art, and his initial self-doubt over his qualifications starts to disappear:
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Atlanta hip-hop has been hungry for a Hollywood depiction that feels authentic. But Donald Glover pushed the industry to reconsider what that can look and feel like.
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Good morning! I wrote about Janelle Monae, 'The ArchAndroid' turning *10* and our changing needs for diversity and inclusion for
@stereogum
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Episode one of RACKET: INSIDE THE GOLD CLUB is here. Featuring a brief history of the Atlanta strip club scene ... and an FBI raid. Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts:
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This is why it pays to have a Atlanta native to interview an Atlanta native. This part of Jewel's profile floored me.
When outgoing D.A. Paul Howard posted that Lil Baby had endorsed him, I knew I wanted to ask the rapper about it. Baby says the two had a conversation but he denies endorsing Howard.
Baby also posted & deleted about working with Mayor Bottoms on police reform.
Via
@GQMagazine
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Maybe it's dumb to think of print bylines as a milestone in this troubled era of new media, but just let me have this, OK
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When
@TheQueenBRI
reachs out about contributing to a Southern rap canon for NPR, you say yes. Honored to be among so many of my fave thinkers, write about music that has been lambasted for too long, yell about Young Dro in a video chat for journalism.
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"Aesthetically, much of [Atlanta's] skyline is credited to real estate businessman John C. Portman. . . Culturally, it was shaped by visionary music producer Rico Wade."
Maurice Garland on Wade's legacy:
"Similar to Kool Herc’s electrical innovation birthed hip-hop in the Bronx, Rico Wade molded a sound from Southwest Atlanta, Georgia’s red clay, converting a crawlspace in his mother’s unfinished basement into a studio known as “The Dungeon”
Read:
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Despite his decades of film experience, Hollywood doesn't give Jackie Chan the credit he deserves. The Foreigner may change that.
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Fifteen years ago Gnarls Barkley's genre-bending, online-first approach to St. Elsewhere forged new territory for Atlanta's music scene. Reported on its legacy, from Grammys to YouTube react videos for
@atlantamagazine
's April issue:
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2 Chainz got a pink wheelchair after breaking his leg so he wouldn't have to cancel his tour. What's your excuse?
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Presenting my freelance year in review! Including rates for the sake of transparency, as inspired by
@cnqmdi
and
@studyhallxyz
. But also, I can barely remember how my December went, so I could use a reminder of how this year turned out.
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A year ago
@BOTMpod
arrived, promising to take hip-hop conversation in a new direction. It really hurts to announce that, as of this morning, WABE has decided to drop the show.
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Lots of artists hope to avoid easy categorization. Very few resist as hard as Yung Baby Tate, whose shapeshifting approach is starting to resonate, to platinum features.
New cover story for Red Bull's magazine The Red Bulletin:
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Latest cover story is for
@BitterSouth
's Issue No. 3. It's about Killer Mike and his idea of a more perfect union.
Support the Bitter Southerner's pledge drive to cop an issue before anyone else:
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The opening line to 'Teflon Don' — “I'm not a star” — was a punchline in of itself.
@Yoh31
,
@HipHopObama
and I revisit the album where Rick Ross stood by his outlandish persona to make his best album, blogs be damned
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Teaching a workshop Saturday, April 13, about music journalism at Georgia Writers Association. While I've done panels in the past, this will be the first time I talk about pitching, interviewing, etc., in depth. More info:
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For
@guardiancities
, I asked the city's sharpest critics (
@ChadRad
,
@chuckreece
,
@jewelwickershow
,
@Yoh31
and
@ImmersiveATL
) to sound off on the emerging acts redefining Atlanta's sound:
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"Are things better or worse the second time around? Can we really do anything more than once?"
Wrote about Savage Mode 2 answers Morgan Freeman's existential questions for
@nprmusic
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TIL I'm cited twice on Magic City's Wikipedia page. This is my Pulitzer
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Latest for
@guardian
is on
@Mike_Eagle
's new LP and why his body is a building, a building, a building, a building
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In case you missed NPR's live Listening Party for OutKast's Stankonia, here's a transcript of the amazing convo
@redclayscholar
hosted with myself and
@writegavinwrite
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Crime Mob's 2004 debut got pegged as the end of crunk. Instead the music found new life by way of HBCU traditions, viral dance hits, the Met Gala.
Spoke to the group about how it's camaraderie has become timeless:
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My writing career in Atlanta began at
@cl_atlanta
. Tim Song introduced me to
@ChadRad
, who published my first concert review byline.
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Latest for
@atlantamagazine
is about how Georgia lifted a sales ban on an Asian cooking staple—and may become the fifth state to actually grow it.
Loved reporting on this larger conversation, on whether plants not native to Georgia can have their place.
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What's my biggest career accomplishment? Naming a panel about freelance journalism "Just Following Up"
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Biggest accomplishment of 2019 was learning to put my body and mind first. That I'm never too busy to work out, eat well, seek help, sleep on it
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