King is a website geared toward African-American and urban male audiences. It features articles about hip-hop and R&B as well as sports and fashion. The magazine is published by Townsquare Media and was a spinoff from XXL.[1] The magazine was started in 2002.[2] It ceased publication on March 31, 2009, citing failing ad sales as a result of the poor economy and plans to release monthly installments soon.[3] It resumed publication, this time as a quarterly magazine, in late 2009.[4] It was later suspended again, and the website was sold by Harris Publications to Townsquare Media in 2014