Her first trip to Atlanta was for another job, but it ended up being a pretty quintessential Atlanta experience. “I was with the client, and they just said, ‘Okay, let’s go to a strip club,’” she says. “From the first time, I was obsessed. Coming back, I wanted to forge more of a connection with the women I saw, who I feel are raw and real in the same way as the women I grew up around in the Bronx. I feel that hustle and spirit.”

The magazine features sleek black-and-white and cool-toned photography of girls with sculptural hair, animal-print makeup, latex bodysuits, and black netted veils playing video vixens, phone line operators, cartoonish characters, and go-go girls. There’s also an Ice word search and offbeat, vintage-looking ads for hair care within the pages.

The shoot with Eve sees her stare straight to camera in a hooded black Alexander McQueen jacket, a plunging R&M Leathers bodysuit, and Louboutins. “Eve is a dream,” says Medrano. Swizz Beatz introduced the two. “I learned to ride a motorcycle because of her. She’s an OG Ice girl to me, a badass and a boss.”

Ice works with an all-female crew, among them first-issue collaborators Raisa Flowers, Marika-Ella Ames, and hairstylist Amidat Giwa. “We’re able to flow together in this very authentic way,” Medrano says.