Evaluation 4

The audience my magazine will attract will typically be Rap fans but I do not exclude other genres in my target audience as I believe rap can divided into many genres and it could appeal to many diverse social groups.

My magazine will appeal to the younger age as it tends to appeal to people of this age more than the elderly and young adults. I expect readers to have foreknowledge of rappers and the genre because interest normally so deprived from previous insight. The audience may be up to date with new artists and maybe also the old ones inspired these new artists. The audience usually relate to rap content so I expect them to be originating from urban areas. Rap fans tend to have insight to the personal lives of their favourites rappers and artists. It is seen in many Hip-Hop and Rap songs that the lyrics relate to its target audience of a lower class who are attracted by the urban culture and this is where Hip-Hop/ Rap originated from.

Generally rap is aimed at teenage boys to adults between the ages of 16 - 27. This is the target audience because a lot of people in that age bracket can relate to the music because they are of the age where they are heavily involved with women, partying, enjoying life, gangs, violence and just the stresses of life really

I have used an aspirational figure on the front of my magazine. My aspirational figure is on my magazine cover because he conforms to the rap conventions and will attract my designated audience e.g clothes, expressions, quotes. I have used positive language on my front cover to boost the appeal of my audience through use of adjectives, exclamatory expressions. My audience will be typically have a 9 - 5 job and be working class or lower middle class people. Rap points fingers at american establishments originating in the 1970s time of oppression and racism a basis of a lot of rap. Largest reason for a majority of raps' audience being black.