The target audience of the rap magazine is 18-35 year old males who are interested in new rap music, gossip about rap artists, and incidents involving stars in the rap industry. Younger audiences aged below 18 are starting to get into rap magazines as well. Most of the target audience identified through research were males who would prefer some colorful pages but also some bland, mature designs rather than bright pop magazine styles.

1. Question 4- Target Audience

2. Age, Gender and Interests
The target audience of my rap magazine are 18-35 year olds, as most of the artists
that are to do with this genre of music, are more mature than they are in other
genres of music such as pop. The words that are in most rap magazines are not for
eyes under 18 as they have more mature themes but that’s why the target audience
is of the age it is, I think that my magazine fits into the target audience because I
have made it so that most of the articles and the cover lines aren’t very childish
they're more mature. The gender of my target audience would be males because
most of the rap genre is more masculine and can contain some strong language and
most women wouldn’t really want to hear this. Most of the research I made into my
target audience, I found out that most of them that I asked were males, this helped
to show me what to do in my magazine.
The Interests of my target audience are mostly about what new rap songs are
coming out and whether they are made by big names within the rap industry such as
Ice Cube or Jay Z. The main interest of my target audience is if there had been any
bad incidents involving stars within the rap industry, the gossip side of things are just
for the men who want to find out things about rap artists.

3. Comparison between audience research
I found out that originally the target audience was exactly the same as what I
think it is now, but younger age groups are starting to get into the rap magazine
as most of the people that did audience feedback for me originally where
below the age of 18, this now draws me to the fact that the target audience
could come down but I still think the majority of readers would be over the age
of 18.
I also found out that most of the target audience would like to see more
colours within the pages, but they also want some to be bland, this is also
showing maturity because usually really bright colours are stereotypical to pop
magazines. The comparison between the target audience and audience
research, a lot of it was the same with exception of a few.