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 …

Cover Story On his new record 'Michael,' Killer Mike finds his inner self Killer 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.