The KING (Magazine) Is Dead, But What A Life It Had

• Huffington Post, Monday, August 8, 2011 3:45 PM

Trymaine Lee writes a long case history on the rise and fall of now-defunct KING magazine, "an urban answer to mainstream lad mags like Maxim, FHM and Stuff, and... the closest thing there had ever been to a hip-hop equivalent of GQ."

Interesting stuff, especially this quote from the pub's founder, Datwon Thomas: "If you saw the covers, you'd be like, 'All they want to do is look at this girl's ass.' But if you opened it, you'd be like, 'Wow, it's so much more than that.'"

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