CD Cover Analysis

Front

The genre of this album is hip hop/rap, the artist portrays a typical rapper as he has the black jersey, snapback hat and the graffiti style background, on most rap albums there is usually a photo of the artist taking up most of the cover, the whole cover being in black and white but the title of the album being in a bright red helps contrast against the rest of the cover. This is seen a lot on rap album covers. The big bold writing of his artist name is also almost always big, standing out making it one of the first things you see to make sure that everyone knows who exactly it is, sometimes the artist/band name isn’t usually the main eye catcher in other genre album covers.

Back

The back cover also follows most rap album expectations with yet another photo of the artist, the track list being written in a graffiti style also supports the stereotypes of a rap album cover, with things that connect with the streets, graffiti, clothing style, gritty area and atmosphere of the image. This artist personally used the colour red for the title as it represents the logo of the music label which found him “MarsMG”.