2. Task 5
Similar music magazines
•The Source is a United States based, monthly
magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and
culture, founded in 1988. It is the world's second
longest running rap periodical, behind United
Kingdom-based publication Hip Hop Connection.
•Hip Hop Connection (HHC) is the longest
running monthly periodical devoted entirely to
hip hop culture. HHC has earned international
recognition.
•XXL is a hip hop magazine, published by Harris
Publications, founded in 1997.
•Juice is a well known German hip hop magazine
and the biggest of its kind in Europe. In every
issue readers find interviews with rappers and
record reviews. Juice is published 11 times per year
by Piranha Media. In the first quarter of the
year, 28,757 copies were sold.
3. Task 5
Possible
Possible music names
genres
•Beats
•Hip hop Pop •Fusion
•RnB
•Rock
Blues
African IDEAS •Blast
•Indie Asian •Turn up
•Country Jazz •Monster
•Mantronix
•Jam
•Choonz
•Swag
•Hizzouse
Possible ideas for articles
For this article Having three
long shots are used column and the
this allows the copy wrapping
reader to see a full around image
image of the artist.
4. History on RnB/Hip-Hop
R&B is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk and hip hop.
1980s
As the disco era came to a close, a new generation of producers and slick drum machine beats to
African-American music. Michael Jackson was among the first post-disco black musicians to cross
over to mainstream audiences. In its early years, mainstream R&B was very pop-oriented.
1990s
In contrast to the works of Boyz II Men, Babyface and similar artists, other R&B artists and groups
from this same period began adding even more of a hip-hop sound to their work. At the end of 1999,
Billboard magazine ranked Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson as the first and second most successful
artists of the 1990s.
2000s–present
By the 2000s, the cross-pollination between R&B and hip hop had increased. Mainstream modern
R&B has a sound more based on rhythm than hip hop soul had. R&B began to focus more on solo
artists rather than groups as the 2000s progressed. Following periods of fluctuating success, urban
music attained commercial dominance during the early 2000s, which featured massive crossover
success on the Billboard charts by R&B and hip hop artists. In 2004, all 12 songs that topped Billboard
Hot 100 were African-American recording artists and accounted for 80% of the number-one R&B hits
that year.
