For over nine years, Mehka has spent his professional career as a journalist, and most recently a digital content creator/curator for brands. Known by most as a contributor to publications including TheHillTalk.com, XXL, SLAM Magazine, Hip Hop Weekly, Rolling Out, and DJsDoingWork.com, Mehka turned his fresh perspective and penchant for storytelling into a diverse writing resume covering music, sports, the evolving Cannabis industry, and politics.
In 2010, King founded Invisible Man Media (IMM). The company serves as a vehicle to publish his creative works and also work with brands in developing stories and curating content for their digital channels. Within the first four years of existence, IMM produced a documentary, Crown Royalty: The History of Charlotte Hip-Hop, and two independent news blogs. Under this moniker, the Boston native would work with brands including the Atlanta Entertainment Basketball League, BallerMindFrame.com, Al Capone Cigarillo, Complex Media, and Backwoods Tobacco creating new media and original content.
2016 put King back in the director's chair as he prepared his sophomore documentary project, The Color Green, currently in editing. The Color Green examines the declassification of Cannabis in the United States, and where minorities, who bore the brunt of the destructive drug laws, fit in the new multi-billion dollar industry.
As his interests continue to evolve, Mehka never strays too far from his first love, storytelling. Marching to the conscious of his own pen, this writer is out to understand the world.
MEET THE STORYTELLER
Mehka King
Throughout history we've depended on the storytellers of the time to convey the ideas and moments of that period. Whether objective, opinionated, or investigative in nature, when done properly, these stories spark the debates that lead to change, even if only a change of thinking. While the methods of recording and communicating stories are constantly changing, it is the original purpose that drives Mehka King to walk among the new generation of storytellers. "I've had a desire to write, create and share the stories of others for most of my life. I wrote my first story at eight," King
friend to develop a video game, Mehka took charge to write backstories for all of the characters. "I felt like in order to determine the future of each, we needed to know where they'd been," he continues. It is this dedication to understanding, that allows his subjects to be forthcoming for great interviews.
explains. Working with a
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