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.”
Aliya S. King 