VIBE Magazine (Analysis)

The music genre of this magazine is R&B and hip-hop. You can tell this by the main image, who is lil wayne, a famous hip-hop artists. Also, their are names of R&B artists such as Jermaine Dupri. This magazine is aimed for young, middle aged male or females and are into hip-hop or R&B or both. You can tell this because there are names of young artists, R&B and hip hop artists. Also, young kids today are into Lil wayne and his whole crew Young Money.
The image relates to the music genre because the artist lil wayne is famous and well known hip-hop artist and is also featured on some R&B genre's. The main image is taken of Lil Wayne crouching on a chair which looks like a kings chair. This may symbolise that he is at the top of the music genre hip-hop and nobody can take him off it.
The colours that are used are blue, white and yellow and they contribute to the mood because the colours that are used are happy colours. The colours also go well with the image because the rapper is happy that he is at the top of the "hip-hop game".

The image relates to the audience because it shows the rapper crouching on the chair and teenagers sometimes like to stand on chairs and mess around. The masthead is called VIBE and it reflects the content by having Lil wayne as the main image because his songs are the new vibes that everybody are tuning in to nowadays. The colour of the masthead is yellow and some of the writing on the strap lines are white but some words have yellow aswell. Most of The writing has been placed on the sides and around the main image. Also, the B in VIBE is behind the head of the image to show that the rapper Lil Wayne is always in front of things. The only thing that is in front of the main image is the name Lil Wayne. The rappers name is slightly covering his shoulder to show people who he is.