Editing Skiz Fernando (section)

==Journalistic career==
During his time in Harvard, Skiz Fernando would listen to the ''Street Beat'' show on [[WHRB]], a student radio station.<ref name="dubspot">{{cite interview |last= Fernando|first= Sarath|interviewer-last=Mesinai|interviewer-first=Raz|interviewer-link=Raz Mesinai|title=Skiz Fernando (Spectre / WordSound) @ Dubspot - Talks Influences, Dub, Hip Hop|date= 2012|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfLpCKRzmQ|access-date=5 August 2023}}</ref> The show was hosted by two Harvard College students, [[David Mays]] and [[Jonathan Shecter]], who would later create ''[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]''. Started as a one-page newsletter,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mehren|first1=Elizabeth|title=Head of the Class in College of Letters, Arts and Rap|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-16-ca-933-story.html|access-date=5 August 2023|agency=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=April 16, 1990|at=sec. F, pp. 1,8}}</ref> ''The Source'' quickly turned into what ''[[The New York Times]]'' described as "the leading magazine on hip-hop music, culture and politics".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Carmody|first1=Deirdre|title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Magazines|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/17/business/the-media-business-magazines.html|access-date=5 August 2023|agency=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 17, 1994|at=sec. D, p. 8}}</ref> Around 1992, after returning from Greece and meeting with Shecter, Fernando started writing for ''The Source'' magazine.<ref name="housepodcast" /><ref name="bio" /> In the following years, he contributed to various other publications, including ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'', ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'', and ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Williams|first1=Jaelani Turner|title=A Biography Recounting the Life of MF DOOM Is In the Works|url=https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/a-biography-recounting-the-life-of-mf-doom-is-in-the-works.html|website=[[Okayplayer]]|access-date=4 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Batey|first1=Angus|title=Features {{!}} Tome On The Range {{!}} Talent & Natural Game: S.H. Fernando Jr On The Wu-Tang Saga|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/31063-s-h-fernando-jr-interview-from-the-streets-of-shaolin-the-wu-tang-saga|website=[[The Quietus]]|date=29 January 2022 |access-date=4 August 2023}}</ref>