A different look

This is my favrouite type of magazine cover, something that looks more like art than everyother magazine cover. The editing on this i think is pretty cool and attracts me. The hard rock look and fire is fitting to suite the personality of Wiz Khalifa and his type of music. The way that the subheadings have been done is my favrouite part, even down to the writing at the bottom of the cover it all looks good!

This is Brandon aged 16, He is a student at leicester college on a 2 year plastering course. Brandon lives in Broughton Astley and is into the Hip-Hop music & culture.

Quote: 'My favrouite element of Hip-Hop has to be the life style represented through the music.'

When i went on to ask why that was he went into detail about the how the lifestyle portraid in this type of music is a rich, wealthy and relaxed lifestyle. He sais it gives you something to aim for and that it isn't just some kids from the ghetto saying words to a beat, it is talent, it's life stories presented by the artist through spoken, rhythmically spoken poetry.

I agree Hip-Hop is more than music blared out in the projects of America, It is a culture, Hip-Hop is a lifestyle more than a genre, to live Hip-Hop there are 6 elements.

Recently Hip-Hop artists have merged with R&B/soul artists creating more publically acceptable songs that have started to make it mainstream and play about with the top 40 charts, a big name to hit the charts lately is Wiz Khalifa. Wiz is a born on September 8th, 1987. He is a proffetional rapper/R&B artist, his parents divorced when Khalifa was about three years old. His parents' military service caused him to move regularly: Khalifa lived in Germany, England, and Japan before settling in Pittsburgh where he attended Taylor Allderdice High School, where he made friends for life.

Cameron Jibril Thomaz (Wiz) and his main man Chevy Woods started there own gng, hence Taylor Gang, when both friends and rappers became proffestional Taylor gang became a world wide fan base. The rappers then began to see there fans as fellow 'Taylors' and accept anyone in. They use this as a way to show acceptance to Hip-Hop.

Quoted: "To be a Taylor you can be anybody, weather your black, white, yellow, pink, purple or blue your a motherf**k**g taylor!"

To me, this shows acceptance to the music.