Pound was founded by Rodrigo Bascunan, Andrew Cappell, Kostas Pagiamtzis and Christian Pearce in May 1998.

Since its inception, the magazine was known for its sense of humor and political content, specifically the "Babylon System" column that would eventually spawn a book.

Pound has won the Canadian Urban Music Awards (CUMA) Publication of The Year in 2004 and 2005.

Pound Magazine LA released 3 issues, the first cover was Kanye West, the second one was with DJ Khaled.

In this issue, Pound won "Gold Medal" in AUSTRALIS 2010, Best quality print Magazine in Chile.