initial ideas

In this section of my blog I will dicuss the initial ideas of my project, I have chosen to create a music magazine which encompases three different types of genre:
1)Rap
2)Hip-Hop
3)Urban (i.e. Grime)
I am hoping that this magazine will appeal to any race.Rap, Hip-Hop and Urban are often stereotyped with coloured people and so I hope to overcome this by moving away from that stereotype by possibly using a mixed race group on the front cover. I also want the magazine to appeal to a young audience possibly 16-25, the hip hop culture stems back to the 1970s and so fits the age range perfectly as our generation has grown up listening to this type of music. My magazine should also appeal to the working/middle class audience however hip-hop has become one of the worlds most popular/best selling genres so people from the upper middle class may also be a target audience to consider (this will require more research).
         Currently I have 6 initial titles for the magazine:
1)Muzik (this is spelt in an urban fashion and may automatically draw in my target audience)
2)Urb-Word (urban-word)
3)Urb-Gen (urban generation)
4)UK-UG (united kingdoms urban genration)
5)1970 (this was when Rap and Hip-Hop started)
6)Rap't up (a spin on rap and the months latest news)
         To decide which name gets picked I will ask members of the public and my class mates in a questionaire, or I may have a total re-think depending on the results from the questionaire.
         Hip-Hop as mentioned is one of the worlds leading musical genres and so I believe that there is a massive audience potential for this type of a magazine, for the front cover my intial thoughts were to use a mixed Rap band, I am currently part of a multi-cultural rap band and so could be the main focus point of the cover and the first issue of the magazine, the colours which will be used on the front cover are still being decided however the main colour for the magazine is either going to black or white depending on the picures taken for the front cover, the contents page will be themed to the front cover and then the theme will be relayed throughout the articles, again the articles will most likely to be about my rap group however I can also interview DJs and other MCs who I know or can get in contact with to feature in other stories/articles of the magazine.