Day 3

DAY 3: Sub Genres 

To find a distinct genre, my group and I decided to research the different styles of hip-hop. We saw different categories such as Boom bap, Cloud rap, Conscious hip-hop, Crunk, Drill, Emo rap, Frat rap, and Horrorcore. None of these sub genres had even a slight appeal with my group, because they seemed like boring topics to cover. Some genres that did appeal to us were Trap rap and "Gangsta rap." This is a genre that is very prevalent with a lot of new artists coming up as they usually rap about money, cars, jewelry, etc. Now that we have a specific area of hip-hop that we wanted to focus on, we needed to see if we wanted to delve into a sub genre of focus on the overall genre with new rappers. With further research, we were unable to find a sub genre that we thought would fit our magazine, so we decided to just focus on the aspect of hip-hop all together and how up and coming rappers are attributing to this genre.

We were inspired by the hip-hop magazine "XXL" which focuses on up and coming rappers and gives them a spotlight in their Freshman issue. We wanted our magazine to be like the Freshman issue, but only about up and coming rappers to give them the spotlight that is very hard to achieve. We are hoping that those who read our magazine will be able to see a new artist and appreciate the work they have done to try to culminate an audience. It also may expose older audiences to the new hard hitting rappers of this generation as well.