Chicago-based rapper McKinley Dixon’s upcoming album ‘Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?!’ is inspired by the works of Toni Morrison, who he calls “the greatest rapper of all time.” “There’s so much in [her] books that we still are getting to.”
Dixon graduated around 2017, and recalls his time in Richmond as a period of personal discovery, where he refined his communication skills, learned more about the Black experience, and thought more about what the trans people he knew were going through. He compares his newfound understanding of the Black trans community’s struggles with his previous knowledge of plights that were more familiar to him.
. Both projects are full of introspective, incisive lyrics over jazzy, buoyant instrumentation crafted by Dixon and a crop of Richmond musicians who he would collaborate with through Facebook. For My Mama And Anyone Who Looks Like Her Dixon recalls that the project received his most press ever and made him feel like he had arrived. “To your average
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