Research into existing hip hop magazines.

Looking at existing contents pages that are produced for the Hip Hop genre you can see that all of them are pretty simple and they have a simple background.There is not a lot of text on the page, this is not very conventional as magazines usually have a lot of texts and pages on each page. I find that not having a lot of information on the contents page. A theory that Hip Hop magazines do use is gaze theory, this is clearly demonstrated in the large pull out of the 'Rolling Stone' magazine in the middle. I say this because the male audience will like this magazine because of the attractive female in the middle and the female audience will like it because they would might wish they had that body and legs. I have found some basic code and conventions are: 

• The feature artist or story is the main character on the front page. 
• The background colour is similar to the featured story.
• There is one main images (like the front page)

This Contents pages subverts the codes and conventions of music magazines although it looks good, it is still missing some conventions such as:

• Image of the front cover of the magazine.
• In columns, usually 3 or 4. (Features and regulars - main category headings)
• Other smaller images.
• Name of the magazine is at the top, issue date and the word contents

How ever it does follow some conventions such as having the issue number, and crediting the photographer for the front page image.