RAP READERSHIP PROFILE

The person who would read my magazines would be males who love rap music. This is because I am doing a rap magazine called Rap Realism. The gender of my target audience would be male. This is because males are generally more into rap than females. Girls are more into pop, love or fashion magazines whereas boys

are more into hip-hop, rap or sports magazines. The typical reader would generally be between the age of 16-25 as it is a rap magazine and that age group would understand rap more than

the older generation.

Another reason why I am targeting teenagers and young adults is because of the price. However, this may also be an issue as my

target audience are teenagers and young adults they may or may not have money to spend on my magazine, especially teenagers. This is a bad thing, but my magazine would be low price that I

think that they would be able to afford. The price of my magazine is £2.50. In addition, my magazine would be released every month instead of every week to ensure my target market has the correct

amount of money to buy my magazine at the end of the month.

The main interests of my target audience would be people who like to play football in their spare time, go on social

networking sites such as Facebook, go to the cinemas and watch movies which may or may not include rap. An example of a movie which has rap in it is 8 Mile with Eminem or Get

Rich and Die Tryin’ with 50 Cent. These are the films in which my target audience would lie to see as it does include

rap artists and they do rap in that movie.

In addition, the main interests of my target audience is they would listen to rap on a daily basis, they would like going to rap concerts and festivals, play consoles such as PS3 or Xbox

as the majority of my target audience is teenagers.

Another interest that they would acquire is their love of technology. This is because they are teenagers and young

adults who are into technology in this modern day and age. They would have technology such as Beats headphones by Dr

Dre plus they would also have playing consoles and smartphones. They probably got all of these latest

technologies through their parent’s income.

In any given magazine the adverts would normally take around half of the magazine. So my advertisements should

relate to my target audience in some way. My advertisements would include some sports equipment, grooming for young

adults, sports matches or festivals, music festivals, new phone advertisements and new technology adverts.

By Mahfuzur Rahman