I will draw inspiration fromt hese covers to help  me create my own hip hop magazine covers. All these covers are umique in terms of design and adress the audince well through eye catching colours and cover picutres. i am inspired particularly by the XXL lil wayne front covers choic of camera angle and may recreate this in my magazine. the bright colours used in the comlex cover draw the attention to the model almost framing him in light, however the sover isnt concentional as it dosnt use the Z composition and no attention is drawn to the puffs. Only the anchoring text is clearly visible at a glance

Hip Hop Media Mag

through my mood board above i have tried to represent the general perception and iconography of hip hop however have also shown some images of apsiration that i found commonly depicted through songs discovered in my research. i have shown strong images to relate back to not only the overall dominering nature of the genres artist but also the background of the music as it has developed from an urban environment. the block nature of the traditional styles for representation of the genre stem from the urban background as the blocky charcateristics relate back to the rigid nature of the streets and buildings the genre was conceived in. the artist depicted above are very influential to the genre therefore they have a very serious persona this is the reason for many of the images being displayed in black and white, the black and white could also relate back to the un neggotating veiws preached by the artist in the rap community. "Bling" is very common thrughout the hip hop/ rap genre, bling is commonly used