Leonce

A stalwart of dance music in the Southeast since the 2010s, Leonce's interest in high concepts like the continuum of Black art in America, or deep thoughts on club culture, never get in the way of making genre-blending beats that make audiences move. Leonce Nelson, a New Orleans native born in 1993, relocated to Atlanta in his teens, not long after family members were displaced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. There, he pored over dance subgenres both local (trap and snap music) and international (U.K. grime, vogue beats), learning to make his own music on his laptop. By 201...