Critical perspectives of Genre

For my preliminary project 2 our allocated genre was Gangster Rap. Here are a few artists that can be seen on CD covers, posters and videos in the Gangster Rap genre:

• 50 Cent
• Snoop Dogg
• Dr Dre
• Eminem
• Lil Wayne

Some conventions seen in the Gangster Rap genre on CD covers, posters and videos are (see in presentation below):

From this we now know what types of conventions we will need in our project.