This music magazine is called ‘hip hop’ the mast head gives away the genre of the magazine, and also having eminem on the front cover people will know this is a hip hop magazine as he is a hip hop artist. This will not be targeted at a specific age but at fans of hip hop. Even though hip hop has male and female fans this magazine is mainly targeted at males, you can tell this by the colors of the magazine, and also there is no females on the front cover.

The main image of this front cover is a close up shot of eminem. Eminem is a big artist in the industry, which suggests that this magazine is well known and is a big company to have a artist like eminem as the main image. Eminem (main image) is over the mast head you can only read 4 words, this is also evidence that this magazine company is well known as people must already know what it is called for them to cover the mast head with the main image. The image is in the centre of the page, covering the majority. It is a close up shot, you can see the seriousness in the artists face which shows his dedication and to hip hop.

Eminem is wearing a black wooly hat and a black jacket, although he is a big artist he is casually dressed, the way he is dressed relates to hip hop, hip hop is not very commercial and is quite underground so artists are not very fussed about things like make up and clothes, hence why eminem is just wearing a black hat and jacket. Hip Hop is a underground music and started in the streets, where people wear wooly hats, black jeans, black jackets am so on, so by eminem wearing what he is, he is following the ways of hip hop.

he main colours used on the front cover are red yellow and white. The plain white background contributes to the mood of the main image because eminem is showing no emotion in his picture, and the colour white is said to be a colour with no emotion. The colour red is quite raw and stands out a lot this matches the personality of hip-hop artists.

The language used on the front cover is very basic; there is not a lot of writing. On the strap lines all there is, is names of other artists that are in the magazines there are no images, this maybe suggests that these artists are also well known.

The typfont used is big and bold which also matches the personality of hip hop artists