The masthead - bold and white which shows its importance. The audience can tell this is a masthead as it has the biggest font size then the rest of the text on the front cover. It is based on the left corner on the front cover.

The overall colour scheme consists of three colours red white and black these colours signify the hip-hop genre as those colours associate with the hip hop genre

Headline – its black and bold which tells the audience that this is the content that’s going to be in the magazine the audience can tell the headline is associated with the hip-hop genre as it has a hip-hop artist a Dr DRE bringing Kendrick Lamar to the scene after snoop dogg and Eminem who are hip hop heavyweights as its headline which shows it’s an hip-Hop music magazine.

The main image has two people who are heavily involved with the hip hop genre DR DRE and his prodigy Kendrick Lamar in the this photo we see both people centrally framed while Kendrick Lamar is sitting down while DR DRE is standing up behind him which gives off a sense that he is looking over Kendrick Lamar which brings in the hip hop genre where many artists of today are prodigies and they have mentors looking over them also there are signifiers in this picture which are associated with this genre such as jewellery.

Barcode- this is used so magazine retailers know who bought the magazine

Cover line- they all relate on hip hop and the cover lines are based on the contents in the magazines.