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Los Angeles, CA, United States, 12/07/2006 - Fly Girl Magazine, a spin-off of True Magazine by DMH Publications, is set to hit newsstands at the end of December. The issue will feature the always scintillating Coco, wife of rapper/actor Ice-T, and several more pages of gorgeous models.
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Geared toward males ages 23 and above, the magazine will also feature articles on cars and mainstream entertainment. “I started this magazine to help up-and-coming models get their names out there,” states David M. Hill, founder of DMH Publications. “It’s like what we do for underground and independent artists in True. We want to put people where they want to be.”
Hill founded DMH Publications in 1999 and True Magazine followed shortly thereafter. “I started it as a newsletter that I printed at Kinko’s,” Hill remembers fondly. He started the newsletter to promote members of his family who were trying to break on to the rap scene in Philadelphia. “Pretty soon, people from all over wanted me to put them in the newsletter.” In 2003, Hill was contacted by a major distributor and True Magazine became what it is today: a leading source of information regarding mainstream and underground hip-hop. In just three years, True’s distribution has grown to approximately 187,000 copies.
Originally started to showcase independent and underground artist, True has had an impressive number of hip-hop royalty grace its covers, including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, and many others. The Game will be featured for a second time in the next issue, due out December 12th.
But it’s not just men who want to be a part of the True experience. “Gloria Valez called me up and wanted to be featured,” Hill reports. “So, I created a section called ‘Fly Girl’ just for her. Afterwards, I was getting hit up by other women who wanted to be in True.” Hill realized that there needed to be a market for aspiring models similar to the one he had created for artists. And so, Fly Girl Magazine was born.
In addition to launching Fly Girl, Hill notes that there are a lot of exciting things happening with True in the near future. “The issue after next is going to be very controversial,” Hill warns. The issue’s cover will feature Nas, Lupe Fiasco, and Rakim, “the past, present, and future of hip-hop,” Hill notes. Splashed boldly across the front will be the words “Is Hip-Hop Dead?” Many articles inside will target the theory that hip-hop has become “bubble-gum,” and will feature an article calling out certain artists the writer feels have sold out. That issue will on stands in early 2007.
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