Aliya S. King

So the thing is, KING magazine was always more than just a place where I wrote stuff.

Ten years ago, I had lunch with Datwon Thomas, a fellow editor. We had a friendly rivalry since I was at The Source and he’d recently left XXL to work for hookt.com. And every once in a while, we’d break bread to catch up and talk shop. Datwon told me about his plans to start a magazine, from scratch. A magazine for Black men. Something that would be irreverent, smart and witty.

He showed me the mock-ups.

“Oh,” I said, “and lots of tits and ass, too.”

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The weird thing: I actually liked non-stop blogging.

If I had an Iphone or some kind of phone that would let me fully blog and take/post photos, it would have been a lot easier. There was a lot of pulling over in the car and then downloading pics from my camera to the laptop and then uploading to the blog. That was pretty annoying.

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