Gucci Mane Magazine Cover

In 1997, XXL was founded by a former Source staffer as well as others who wanted to create their own magazine based on the hip-hop music and culture genre developed by the founders of The Source it is published by Harris Publications. I am able to tell that the magazine is a hip-hop magazine due to the main image which is of Gucci Mane who is a Hip-hop/ Rap artist also through other factors such as the selling lines which one of them says 'does it hurt rappers or help when they are locked up' this shows that the magazine is mainly about rap/hip-hop and also if you still were unsure that this was a rap/hip-hop magazine above the title it says Hip-hop on a higher level.
I can tell that this magazine is aimed more towards men than women through the main image which is a picture of Gucci Mane who has lots of tattoos projecting a bad boy image which is what men are more likely to be interested in as it is stereotypical for rappers to have tattoos also the fact that Gucci Mane has lots of Jewellery would also be aiming more towards men as most rappers have lots of jewellery aswell this would also suggest that Gucci Mane is very sucessful for example as he can afford to have 3 diffrent watches which look expensive on one arm. The colour scheme combined with the main image projects a sense of danger for example the fact that the title is red and that the main image is showing all of Gucci Mane's tattoos projects a sense of danger which is more likely to appeal more to men than women i also believe the age group target are likely to be around 16-25 as they are more likely to listen rap/Hip-hop music and the fact that they are using fairly young artists would also suggest they are expecting younger people to know about these artists unlike the older generation who are unlikely to listen to rap/Hip-hop as they may not like the image portrayed by rappers or the language used in rap/Hip-hop music in general therefore it is targeting a younger audience.