The main article in a music magazine is always the cover story and so the story will always be at least 2 pages long. In this edition of XXL magazine the cover story is about Eminem. The feature has numerous pictures that go alongside a 6 page story.
Since the main story in the magazine is very long and reading a lot in big chunks can get very tiring when reading a music magazine so the pictures are put on there to keep readers interested and willing to continue reading. The pictures put in the article are always very big and usually at least one of the pictures covering the whole page.
In this particular story the theme seems to be quite dark and this works well for this magazine as XXL magazine is usually targeted towards men. So for that reason the colours used on this story are very dark with quite sinister pictures(bullet hole in the glass), which men are more likely to appreciate than women.
The interview itself is also very interesting but has a very formulaic layout for an interview whereby there is a quite short but still detailed introduction of the artist that the interview is about followed by questions printed in bold and the answers to the questions printed underneath. Because the interview has a standard layout it relies on its content to keep the audience entetained one way it does this is by using language and terms familiar to hip-hop culture something that the readers know about and help make the interview more personal. This means using colloquial terms such as 'sick' and 'beef'
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