1. Close-up image. Cover A masculine feel to the
features straplines, cover hints to the primary
taglines, barcode, date audience.
and price all conventions The main central
of a magazine. image at first glance
looks as if (Ludacris)
the rapper/model is
The magazine editors holding a gun but in
and producers feel actuality it’s camera.
that XXL mag is so If the audience do
recognisable that think that he is
they don’t have to holding a gun on first
show their whole glance it asks the
logo. question are we
stereotyping or being
prejudice because of
who we see holding
The XXL magazine logo the object. Ludacris
is in its usual format is actually tuning to
(same font and colour) an actor role in front
and also in the top left of the camera.
position as ever.
Being dressed in
black portrays a
negative
connotations and
reinforces the
reputation of
rappers being
Use of a pun. The word ‘shoot’ can be used
violent or anti
when shooting someone with a gun or
social.
shooting/filming someone with a camera.

2. T.I is holding the pen as if it’s a cigarette
and without looking closely it looks like
Again we see the one. The idea behind the image may be to
logo of XXL cut off do with how TI could've have just wasted
because the his life by smoking and drinking
editors see the but instead he wrote lyrics and made
magazine as easily something of his life.
recognisable.
Again
model/rapper is
dressed all in black
conveying negative
Graffiti writing in stereotypes.
the foreground
and T.I behind. Esoteric Hip Hop
readers will be pleased
if they acknowledge that
All the usual TI often refers to himself
conventions of a as ‘The King’ and XXL
magazine cover use that phrase on the
are present. cover.
Barcode, price, ‘Da’ instead of ‘the’
date, straplines, connotes the idea
taglines and a of its urban
headline. audience and how
the magazine can
relate to its
Black, red and white audience through
colour scheme the language used
becoming apparent. (genre specific
language).