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Front Cover Analysis Of XXl Magazine

               Masthead ‘XXL’ – embedded with diamonds this reflects bling culture which is associated with Hip hop and rap. Diamonds also connote wealth suggesting the magazine reports about the best of RnB music. The fact that it’s called ‘XXL’ also suggests that they’ve are a high quality magazine who only feature the best. The masthead has a red background in order to make it stand out and catch the audience’s attention.


The puff which says "lloyd banks, Wiz Khalifa, Shyne, R Kelly, B.O.B" makes us want to know more about what is going on in the magazine and more about these artists that are going to be featured inside it.


The main image is of Soulja Boy and 50 Cent. This image is very similar to the one of lil wayne and birdman, where they are both wearing numerous amount of expensive looking jewellery on, this signifies excessive wealth which Hip hop /Rap audience’s can immediately recognise and would want imitate.This technique  is referred to as a preferred reading as it persuades the audience to buy the magazine in order for them to emulate the two rap stars. Soulja boy is standind next to 50 cent in almost like a fatherly son pose with 50 cent looking like a father figure and soulja boy looking like a son figure. Soulja Boy is wearing crazy amounts of jewellery on him to show the wealth that he has. This reflects soulja boys character of being arrogant and young not giving a care in the world about his haters. He is also showing off the numerous amount of tattoos that he has while showing off his Gucci belt. This portrays a very stereotypical image of modern day rappers not having a care in the world because they are rich and have lots of tattoos. Whereas 50 cent is wearing a vest and a cloth to cover up his face this almost looks like he is robbing Soulja Boy but he poses like a father figure with his arm around Soulja boy showing that soulja boy is protected. 50 Cent shows off his muscles to show that he is strong with some bling on his hand it also shows that he is wealthy and still manages to fit the stereotypical image of a rapper. The editors have covered all points and taken everything into considerations in order for them to attract a mainstream audience. 


The main cover line "50 Cent and Soulja Boy, A Haters Worst Nightmare" shows that these two artists are extremely contraversial and that they are both hated and liked by huge numbers. With them together this would attract huge media attention and so whent they say "A heters worst nightmare" they mean that they are going to get good criticism and good thing said about them outweighing the hate that they are going to get from their haters.

In the puff well known rap artists are named such as ‘Wiz Khlifa’ and ‘Lloys Banks’ this interests Rap audiences as the artists are well known. 

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Chike, you must ensure that you add all of the research and planning work listed on the checklist by Friday 18th Feb.

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Chike, you must ensure that you upload all of the research and planning work listed on the checklist by Friday 18th.

Thanks for adding me to your blog Chike.