McKinley Dixon spent much of his childhood on the move. Born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1995, he shuttled back and forth between the DMV and Jamaica, Queens, and it was those singular New York experiences that really inspired him. He felt a kinship with the borough, a place that wasn�t quite home but felt more like it; the faces there looked like his in a way that just wasn�t true of Maryland. �It gave me kind of this sense of longing that really jump started my thinking about escapism through music,� he says.