**NSFW-ish (women in bathing suits)

Man, I love KING magazine. I also love SMOOTH magazine. Yes, the Black answer to Maxim and Stuff features women with actual meat on their bones, what is there not to love? Before these two fine publications came into existence, I believe Jet’s Beauty of the Week was the only place a man could find fully clothed African-American women in scintillating poses.

This month King has decided to remake the cover of Ice T’s 1988 album, Power. I have never heard the album and yes I know all of you old school heads are shaking your head at me right now. To be honest, I have never really heard anything outside of Cop Killer from Ice T. That is something I should definitely get on.

Tangent: Ice T blaming Soulja Boy for the death of hip hop is absolutely ludicrous. I can understand saying that he sucks, but the death of hip hop cannot be blamed on just one person, it is a collective effort. Actually, people saying that hip hop is dead is a false statement, hip hop albums are consistently at the top of the Billboard charts. People who make these statements are just unhappy with the direction that hip hop is moving in. They have a very defined notion of what hip hop should be when in reality hip hop is an art form and is therefore going to take on many shapes and sizes, many of which you will not agree with.

Going back to Soulja Boy, personally, I like that joint, “Donk.”

Anyways, here is King cover. Good lord this woman looks great 20 years later, I would even gander to say better. LOOK at those abs… cot damn! Ice-T, I’m feelin’ Coco, but I’m wondering if she is going to look like Ms. Ortiz 20 years from now, you feel me?