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Christina Lee

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Atlanta
As seen in: Medium, Forbes, Myspace, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Bandcamp Daily, BuzzFeed, Eventbrite Rally, NPR, Red Bull and
Currently: #AtlantaIs with @jewelwickershow and Maurice Garland by @willpackerprods. Skatin' on ice like I'm Kristi Yamaguchi.

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Christina Lee’s Biography

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My award-winning reporting and criticism appears in outlets like Billboard, NPR Music, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and The Washington Post.

I’ve also co-hosted and written podcasts to critical acclaim. Bottom of the Map has been featured in Bitch, Google Arts & Culture, The New York Times and NPR Music. Vulture named Racket: Inside the Gold Club a best new true crime podcast.

Christina Lee’s Journalist Portfolio

Hard in the Paint: how the Atlanta Hawks learned to love hip-hop again

Hard in the Paint: how the Atlanta Hawks learned to love hip-hop again

After former owner Bruce Levenson blamed rap music for keeping white fans away from the NBA team’s home games…

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Articles

The queer Asian comics building collective joy in D.C.

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By Christina Lee Verified, Christina Lee
| The Washington Blade Verified
Kevin Chen’s family tombstone has room for four: him, his parents and his boyfriend. The arrangement might prove to be a little awkward. “My boyfriend is 100% white, and my parents are 100% disappointed,” Chen confessed. Jokes about family traditions and the untraditional ways they’re practiced earned a burst of laughs at the bar where Chen was opening for the Pride Comedy Special.
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Atlanta, the city of self-made music superstars

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By Christina Lee Verified
| Atlanta Magazine Verified
Outkast in 1990 Photograph by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Christina Lee is an Atlanta-based journalist. She helped host, write, and produce the podcasts Atlanta Is . . . and King Slime: The Prosecution of Young Thug and YSL. Illustration by Graham Smith For seven days in July 1968, Jonas Bernholm pounded the Atlanta pavement in search of rhythm and blues. Bernholm, a Swedish-born music journalist, knew Georgia was brimming with talent, thanks to James Brown, Otis Redding, and the like.
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Atlanta Hip-Hop Got Its Swag Back Thanks to Nostalgic 200...

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| Complex Verified
At the start of 2025, Zaytoven felt uneasy about where Atlanta hip-hop was headed. The scene he’d known was … in a rut. Both he and the city were in mourning, with how many key players and folk heroes had died in recent years, from Takeoff to Rich Homie Quan to Lil Keed. For the first time in perhaps its entire history, Atlanta’s rap scene didn’t feel like some renewable energy source.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Intern at a magazine focusing on minority entrepreneurs.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

He isn't fictional, but: Charlamagne the God.

Awards

Top 10 Stories of the Last 50 Years

2014

In 2014, Rodney Carmichael, Gavin Godfrey, Dustin Chambers and I won an Atlanta Press Club award for the Creative Loafing cover story “Straight Outta Stankonia."

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