Analysis of 2 double Page Spreads

From looking at the article I can tell that the choice of the young individual on one of the double – page spread of the article suggests that the audience will be targeted at middle - aged teenagers, approximately the ages between 19+ as the rappers mentioned are from the 80’s. The young man named Gary ‘GZA’ Genius Grice will also relate to teenagers as they will be attracted by him due to his clothing style which is baggy white top, lose black trousers and trainers. These are all things that youths today are wearing and are interested in. Also the majority of middle-aged teenagers have slang names which we call tags, so his tag name will relate to them.
The type of language that is used in the article is slang or colloquial speech which’s relates well to their target audience. People who read this magazine will be aware of what the writer is trying to put across about ‘GZA’ as they will understand the use of language used.
‘PURE GENIUS’
Any formal reader would not understand the meaning of this as it is not of their lexis which would be ‘He is a genius’. Young readers will understand this information about the rapper as it reveals the specific style of the magazine.
‘It’s frustrating seeing rappers tail about the same shit all the time’
Again this phase relates to the rap, informal style of the magazine because it is slang. If this magazine was formal, they would have edited all the informal language said be GZA. The writer is trying to relate to the magazines target audience as this is the kind of colloquial speech teenagers use today. Also some of the speech by GZA is quite intelligent so the teenagers reading this would have to be an informed, intelligent young person.
The colour is used quite plainly maybe to signify GZA life as a rapper. Black, White and Red are the only colours used. This indicates that the style is normal and the reader is into these colours. Also the rapper in dressed in Black, White and Red so that the reader can focus on the writing and the image on the left and not get distracted by any other colours.
The style of text is normal and quite dull as the overall style of the writing is not very interesting but not boring as the title in bold and is larger than the rest. The style is not very groovy and exciting.
The double page spread laid out as the first page is only the text and the second, the image fills the whole page. I noticed that this tells the reader that the image is of the same importance as the text.

The sort of tone that the magazine is using when addressing the reader is that the reader is an informed intelligent fan as the reader has to be able to understand what the rapper is talking about so therefore has to be interested in rap.
The artist is presented as a dominant figure as the whole second page is him giving the rapper great value of what he does.
The style of the magazine of the article matches the style of the front cover as the red is the leading colour of the article and it is also on the front as it is the title. Also similar not so groovy font styles are used.
The article does demand prior knowledge when reading the article as they mention the Wu-Tan Clan and Liquid Swords. The writer expects reader to have previous knowledge on these bands.