Day 4

DAY 4: Genre Day

After a long weekend of thinking, my group and I came to an agreement and decided to make the genre of our magazine: Up and coming artists in the hip-hop scene. We see this genre as a beneficial plan to both us and the young artists that are trying to find their way into the cutthroat industry that is the rap game. Our magazine will be the number one source for discovering new artists in the hip-hop industry and will give them the platform they need to sign to a label, get their name out there, or get features from major artists. One of my group members researched different genres to help provide clarity on what we should be looking for in our new artists that we will feature. This brought us to a realization that we should just focus on the new artists in the hip-hop scene rather than up and coming artists in general.

We decided to choose this as our genre, because choosing new artists in general would broaden our search way too much causing confusion among ourselves and our audience. The specificity of new artists in the hip-hop genre will always appeal to one audience rather than appealing to certain audiences on certain issues. If we were to narrow our genre down to a specific section of hip-hop, we would be limiting our choices making magazine topics and production much harder to conduct due to lack of an option to explore different typed of hip-hop.