The FADER's monthly column Pop Factory interviews the songwriters, producers, and other visionaries behind pop's biggest songs. When Leland ... Growing up in South Mississippi, he studied music ...

Mississippi is doing away with a state song that traces its origins to a politician who pledged to preserve racial segregation. “Go, Mississippi” has the same tune – but not lyrics – of a ...

Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional ...

As a closeted boy in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Leland wasn’t exposed to many ... where his notion of writing songs for Beyoncé didn’t quite pan out, but his career flourished.

The track serves as yet another accomplishment for Leland — after a whirlwind of success in 2018 with writing credits on Troye Sivan’s Bloom, his very own film score and more, this year ...