Hip Hop magazine
Here is the second Rap magazine I am going to be analysing and this is also one of the very popular rap magazines out there today.
The main character shown on the front cover is the world-wide famous rapstar Jay-Z and he is huge in the music industry and has paired up creating songs with world renown artists such as: Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and Kanye West.
The genre of this magazine is clear that it is a rap magazine because the Masthead shows 'Hip-Hop' in large bold writing and Jay-Z is shown wearing chains and a ring, which associate with the steretype of all rappers wearing lots of bling.
The audience the magazine is aimed at is normally stereotyped for instance: skin colour, age, gender and class. Skin colour is the point that this is aimed at the African American community because generally lots of African American people listen to Rap and the higher majority of rappers are Black, the age it is aimed at would be younger ages mainly 15-30 because rap influences younger generations nowadays. Also in terms of gender, Rap is more popular within the Male community (this is possibly because of all the profanity towards women shown in the lyrics used by most/ if not all popular rappers) and also class is another stereotype of audience because Rap is mostly listened to by Middle class/ Lower class people because it is accepted by them but rarely do you see any upper class individual listening to Rap.
Also the image used in the main image is a eye level shot, this is used to grab the readers attention and his eyes tell a story of how he does what he wants and isn't scared of anyone or anything because he is one of the most famous rappers in the world.
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