Hip-Hop style magazine inspiration.

Cover.
These first two are very fashion orientated, especially clash which is a very stylish magazine, the model is using his look to get him places. Also i like the bold headings and large amounts of free space with no text in it. This is something I feel i can emulate well for my magazine.
These covers again are very minimal and have a look that is easy to recreate and still make look authentic. I want to make a real looking magazine and give it a fashionable edge on its competitors to impress and invite the target audiences money into purchasing something a bit different.
     The final two covers i looked at are less minimal but still have something to emulate. For example the shots are much more similar to what i want to use on my magazine because they show more of the artist without being too distant. also these both have a colour pallet i like.
Contents.
 The contents pages i looked at were all very smart and defined in the way that the text is layout alongside an image. Also they mainly include a single image which follows my minimal theme.                                                                             As said above the single image is something i will hopefully use if possible as it looks minimal and focuses largely on the music artist involved. i also think this makes sure that the text and image mash up isn't too overwhelming and make the magazine look too cluttered. The layout i prefer is The Fader magazine '43' as it looks very stylish and on the brink of being a fashion magazine, widening the audience. However if i am to use this look it will need more text than i can see on it at the moment as there is little information.
Double page spread.
These are all very similar to what I will hopefully recreate with a half image, half text DPS that has all the information but has free space to make it look cleaner. I feel that the use of headings in the last three very interesting and it breaks up the page rather that block text top to bottom. Out of these images I like the final two and I feel that they focus more on the artist rather than his look, i need this as the first images of Ben Hall i want to use are shots at distance which focus on style and the artist needs to be the focus in my article.  Also from looking at these pages a pull quote is definitely needed on my image side of the page to make it more to look at than a plane image with endless white space surrounding it.

Looking through all of these pages from cover to DPS i feel that the smart look with hip-hop music and a touch of music can definitely be met. And to do this my shots need to be simple and a suit could be the outfit i use as most of the images above use a suit to smarten up the page and make the appear wealthy and therefore have the look that the audience for my magazine would like to try and emulate themselves.