Kenan Draughorne is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was a local editor at Patch and wrote for music publications such as DJBooth, HipHopDX and Ones to Watch. He graduated from the University of Southern California, where he served as an editor at the Daily Trojan, and was a member of the 2021-22 Los Angeles Times Fellowship class. When he’s not writing a story, you can find him skating across Dockweiler Beach, playing the drums or furiously updating his Spotify playlists.
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