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June 2006

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Coming Kings 5
There is no gray area when it comes to the Coming Kings recruitment process. It’s a black-and-white issue.

   
 

When The Smoke Clears
Betrayal weighs heavy on Dame Dash’s mind. For the first time, the former ceo of Roc-A-Fella takes off the gloves and candidly addresses the dismantling of his alliance with friend and foe Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter

   
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Top 10 Sports Revolutionaries
In the wide world of sports, an unlikely group of sportsmen has proven that athletics is bigger than competition. KING recruits a dime’s worth of jocks that define groundbreaking.

IS K-Fed Crazy?
In what appears to be public-opinion suicide, the clown you love to clown is releasing a rap album and laughing about it. KING finds out what’s so funny

Chappelle's Show Oral History
"The Joker"
You know what this is. It’s the definitive Chappelle’s Show Oral History, bitches. Experience the unlikely triumph of a comic maverick and his crew

Carmen Bryan
“It Was Written”
The unseen catalyst for rap’s greatest titan-clash, Nas’ ex-lover Carmen breaks her silence. Friend or foe, she states her biz.

Twenty Places to Have Sex Before You Die
Sex in your own bed is boring. Crush in grand fashion in the ultimate settings, from the Great Wall of China to Disneyland.

Mase’s Congregation
“It’s Murder!”
MC-turned-minister-turned-MC Mason Betha has flip-flopped more than John Kerry at a gymnastics convention. In this exclusive, members of Mase’s SANE ministries congregation take their stance.

KING Me: Mary J. Blige
"Queen Me"
Crowned our first-ever female KING ME, MJB opens up about her roller-coaster career and why it’s been difficult to keep the Faith.

2005 Man of the Year: Kanye West
Can I Talk My Shit Again!
In honor of his monster 365-day run, the Roc-A-Fella savior and presidential slayer conducts his own coronation in signature, but justifiable, ego-trip fashion.

Katrina Victims
Two Tales of One City
Hurricane Katrina washed away more than just the historic New Orleans cityscape. Two victims show how class played a part in the devastation.

All Things Great About America, from A-Z
Killer Crossover

All Things Great About America, from A-Z
Immigration

2006 NBA Championship
PACE SETTERS
The San Antonio Spurs’ reign will be short like Paris’ pending wedding. It’s all about Jermaine O’Neal and his bad boys this season.

Baby’s Business Plans
PAPER CHASE
Baby rates four business plans and his $2,000 pocket change goes to one. Sadly, Homey Hot Dog Stand didn't make the cut.

Business, Never Personal
Corporate America’s new favorite rapper, 50 Cent, has his own principles for getting rich. Sweat his technique.

Hell Up In Harlem
With a passion for the pen (the writing utensil, that is), Dip Set’s Juelz Santana submitted an NC-17 script to KING. Spielberg, holla at ya boy!

John Singleton
Schooled by a New York Knickerbocker fanatic, John Singleton continues to provide capable rappers an entrance into the Hollywood game

Calvin Darden
The Talented Mr. Darden
After scamming major cash from Nelly, Latrell Sprewell and Fortune 500 businesses, sticky-fingered stockbroker Calvin Darden is a hustler on a high level. Ask about him.

KING's First Annual NFL Blowout
Don’t feel like waiting until January 2006 to find out who takes home the Lombardi trophy? KING has the early results. Plus: Randy Moss brushes some Minnesota dirt off his shoulder while Willis McGahee runs game.

2005 All KING Team
Recognizing players with more game than Pooty Tang.
Call KING nostradamus 'cause our predictions are more on-point than Tom Brady facing down an all out blitz.

Coming KINGs
Recognizing Hollywood, hip-hop and everything in between, KING issues a dress code and invites 25 of entertainment’s most promising individuals to toast their talents.

Lurch
Bay Area rapper Lurch had a lust for PCP, demonic lyrics and human flesh. Dip into one of hip-hop’s strangest stories.

KING ME: Cedric the Entertainer
Veteran funnyman Cedric the Entertainer sat down with KING for a candid discussion on the state of black comedy.

KING’s Guide To Ruling The Summer
Need help bagging twins, intoxicating diverse shorties...

Coral Jeanne
If you plan on going toe-to-toe against Coral Jeanne, the best bet would be to put your sleeper holds to bed and forget about conventional wrestling techniques.

Mason “Mase” Betha
Mason “Mase” Betha’s storied exit from hip-hop in 1999 seemed to ensure his legacy: Like Jim Brown, he walked away at his career’s apex; like Al Green, he’d found God.

213
The recently reunited trio of Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, and Warren G desire prospective female recruits for more than just the obvious groupie “duties.”

True Hollywood Story
Dave Chappelle’s hilarious send-up of this Super Freak brought him back into the spotlight…

Baddest Beeach
Since Trina and her kaboom first stepped in the room, she’s successfully defended her self-anointed title…

Guess Who’s Back?
Ki Toy Johnson describing the powers her flawless physique possesses…

KING’s Definitive Guide To Ruling The Summer ‘04
Sleep with a model, build a dream machine and much much more…

Straight To Video
Lloyd Banks knows porn tapes like Lil’ Kim knows prude behavior…

Tasty Delight
Kelis brags about all the boys coming to the yard to see her milkshake, but in fact, she has the dudes and the chicks watching her shake it like a salt shaker.

Private Dancer
The goal is to make it through this intro without a ridiculous reference to an oversaturated Destiny's Child single. Farrah Franklin is a survivor

Going Yard
As we make our way toward the field, we're welcomed by a trumpet player blowing "Taps". We're also greeted by a new baseball diamond-"The Field of Dreams", as it is now called.

"Money, Cash, Woes"
"It's incredible. Everything you would have [typically] worked for is given to you when you have money. There was a point where I hustled for clothes. Now the clothing companies ship boxes of clothes to me."

Heat Seeker
Who says two is not a winner and three no one remembers? That's gibberish from insecure jocks, overachievers, and, of course, Nelly.

She Got Next
Female basketball players have a terrible stigma attached to them. Regardless of their height, lady hoopsters are often viewed by fellas as more run away than runway qualified.

R U STILL DOWN?
Reagan Gomez-Preston stopped taking advice from Daddy Townsend four years ago. What has that gotten her? A role snorting coke with a bipolar DMX.

DIRTY COMES CLEAN
Dirt McGirt is now a free man, so KING provided him a fresh look. But even with a new recording contract, clothing line and reality show, is Russell Jones really free?

ALL I’s ON HER
The one-woman promoting machine that is Lisa Raye is hell bent on making it big. On her terms.

RUSH HOUR
Tampa Bay Buccaneer defensive end Simeon Rice is known for bulldozing passers with cougar-like speed and precision. But he’s most intimidating when pushing red lines with his 2002 Ferrari 360 Modena.

ALMOST FAMOUS
This model/actress should have been in the R&B group Changing Faces, because she never looks the same twice. Her face, that is—her body always looks damn good.

TO THE DEF
It’s a fight to the finish as two of the grimiest MCs in the game duke it out in EA/Def Jam’s new fighter video game, Vendetta.

IN ALL HER GLORY
Video mami Gloria Velez is ready to be more than just eye candy in a music video. Who are we to stop her?

T-MACKIN’
Tracy McGrady steps off court to test the limits of speed with his whip collection.

J-Whoa!
If no less an authority on fine than Jennifer Lopez made Natalie the face (and body) of the J. Lo clothing line, then you know the girl is fine.

Thug Luv
The street’s rap maniac and the modeling world’s hippy, hippy, hip momma shoot from the lip with the type of wild sex talk you should be having with your woman.

Sin City Slicker
MTV’s The Real World star Arissa Hill has made a new home for herself on the dirty side of Las Vegas.

The Birdman
Baltimore Raven LB Ray Lewis has even more cars than he does tackling crowns. And he’s not planning to slow down either collection.

OOOH, LA LA
CMTV's hottest VJ has got brothers watching the channel 24/7 to catch her in action.

XXX
Want to know how XZIBIT macks so many women? What you see is what you get.

Mama Mac
Bernie Mac is funny for, but we know the real reason you watch his show is to peep his wifey, Wanda.

Man of Steel
Pittsburg Steelers' wide receiver Plaxico Burress makes things look easy on the football field, What's been tough for him is life off it.

Show Me the Funny
Comedian Tracy Morgan is known today for his work on Saturday Night Live, but he’ll always be “Hustleman” to us.

The God and A Goddess
KING could brag about hooking up a photo shoot with rap legend Rakim and up-and-coming singer Truth Hurts. Then we decided to just let them talk about it themselves.

Iron Sheff
Rock-solid Atlanta Brave Gary Sheffield has got the skills to pay some pretty hefty bills. Too bad major league baseball doesn’t know a superstar when it sees one.

Backyard Boogie
Actress Sacha Kemp puts her video days, ahem, behind her as she makes the leap from small to big screen.

The Bigger Picture
Revolutionizing video images of the hottest artists for the past decade, video and film director Hype Williams is looking to make Hollywood his personal playground. Don’t doubt him.

She Got Game
If your typical WNBA player looked more like hoop-star-turned-model Eishia, you can bet those ratings wouldn't be so low.

All Iced Out
Black Men have been playing pro hockey for 40 years, and today they're almost commonplace. So where's the love?

DOC
Re-Enter The Dragon
Even after a career-altering injury, the D.O.C.'s new album, Deuce, proves that no one can do it better.

AVE MARIA!
If you're not turned on by the fact that model CARLA MARIA knows sports and cars, well, these pictures might do the trick.

DOGGMA
With the voice that launched dozens of hit singles, NATE DOG talks about all he's gone through to become the unquestionable King of Hooks.

ONLY IN AMERICA
Boxing champ FLOYD MAYWEATHER has mad nicknames, and even more millions. Let's just say he's spent his money wisely.






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