Music Inspiration

Professor Green

Professor Green's real name is Stephen Manderson. He is a British rapper and has collaborated with artists such as Lily Allen, Example, Labrinth and Maverick Sabre. Also he has just released his newest album 'At Your Inconviennience' which is a amazing. I like his music because his albums combinds deep lyrics from events in his life with up-beat rap. I will use him as one of my icons when I style my magazine.

Chase & Status

                                                                        

Chase & Status are a British, Electronic and Dubstep music production duo made up of Sam Milton and Will Kennard. They are famous for collaborating with artists such as Plan B, Tinie Tempah, Dizzie Rascal and Cee Lo Green on there most recent album 'No More Idols'. It is difficult to look at there style of fashion because they are producers they are rarely featured in there own music videos. I like there music because they are a music production duo rather then a band or a singer it allows them to have a greater rang of sounds to there songs, also with the incredible artists they have featuring on there songs it makes each song individual unlike any others they have done.

Plan B

Plan B's real name is Ben Drew. He is a British Rapper, Actor, Singer-Song Writer and Film Director. As well as a career in music he has appeared in films such as 'Adulthood' and 'Harry Brown' and in 2012 he will release 'ILL Manors' which is his first film as a director. I think his style is particularly interesting because unlike other rappers and hip hop stars he generally wears suits when he performs. I like his music because he is very individual from how he not only raps but he is a very good soul singer and he combindeds these two qualities when he writes his songs. The music video I have attached is a prime example of his rapping and soul singing, this is also his most successful single as a artist, peaking at number 3 on the UK music chart.

Maverick Sabre

Maverick Sabre, real name Michael Stafford, is an English/Irish Rapper, Vocalist and Songwriter. The types of music he is associated with are Rap, Folk, Soul and R&B. Although he may not be very well known at the minute he has been predicted big prospects for 2012, including his up and coming album 'Lonely Are The Brave' at just age 21. I particularly admire him because he is the first artist to make me admire Folk and Soul music from his own modern twist on it through his acoustic based songs.

Rizzle Kicks

Rizzle Kicks is a British hip-hop duo made up of Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sule. The pair both attended the Brit school and in 2011 released there debut album 'Stereotypical'. They also release alot of remixes of popular songs where they re-write parts of the songs, the video I attached below is a perfect example of this. I like there style of music because there voices perfectly match each other from how one of them does the harmonies and the other does the rapping. Through this it encorperates R&B and Rap to create there form of hip-hop. 

Inspiration

This is a cover of NME magazine, pictured on the cover is 'Tyler, The Creator'. He is an American rapper and producer. I think this a good cover from how it depicts Tyler disregarding the royal wedding from the props of crowns and flowers, and the quote of his opinion of the wedding. They also use the colours gold and red to tie in with this theme.

This is the cover of magazine 'Loaded', it shows the girl group Sugababes. I like the magazine cover because I prefer the Blue and Black colour scheme compared to the NME cover with Red and Gold. Also it shows the attractive girls from Sugababes wearing black clothes to tie in with the colour scheme.

This is the cover of 'Q' magazine, it shows British Rapper Tinie Tempah who is one of my favourite artists. This stood out for me because of the large text at the bottom of the page. Firstly because of the font, the text is very thin and is unlike anything I have seen before. Also, because the text is white which is uncommon because the backgroung is usually white.

This is the cover of football magazine 'Four Four Two', it displays Dutch footballer Wesley Sneijder. I chose to look at this because I am a big football fan so i oftenly red Four Four Two. On this cover I like how much the player and the text over lap, in particular the players head and the title. Also to fit with the football genre the main picture is an action shot of a player with his leg in mid-air presumably after kicking a football.

This is a cover of 'Wired' magazine, it displays comedy actor Will Ferrell. This picture of him is appropriate because Will is known as being comical and the outfit reflects this. I also like it because alot of the kickers are based around the point of focus which in this case is Will Ferrell.

This is a cover of 'NME' it displays rock guatarist Jimi Hendrix to commemorate the 40th annerversairy of his death. I paricuarly like this from how there is a large contrast of colours on his clothes and in the words around him but his actual body is in black and white, I think this is a good representation of him being deceased.

This is a cover of 'New York' magazine (Pictured on the left), pictured is American President Barack Obama. I like this cover in particular because there is little wrote around the side of the picture but lots of quotes wrote on his face. Also I think it is clever how they have taken the Barack Obama campaign poster with the key word 'Hope' (Pictured on the right) and Edited it,changing the word Hope to Hate.

 This is a cover of 'Vibe' magaine, pictured onthe front is American rapper 'T.I.'. I think this is a good cover because they have been able to make the background blue and the clothes T.I. is wearing blue but I feel that they do not clash. I think this is impressive because I imagened that using the same colours would not ever work. Also, unlike most the magazines I have looked at, this cover may only have one artist pictured but it has equally big text around the picture for other artist that will intrest the reader of this magazine.