One way that 50 Cent is represtended here is violent and aggresive. By rapper 50 cent holding a gun with him blurred out in the background shows that the gun is shown to be more important than himself. This could also indicate that hes back with a bang like his new album.
His choice of clothing is a key factor beacuse like Lil waynes album cover you can see he has alot of flesh showing with tattoos all over his body.He chooses to wear a bulletproof vest over the top this backs up my point about this cover being violent and aggresive and shows that rapping is not just about the music but that its also now afilliated with gang and street culture.
Another way men are represented in this image is religious once again if you look at Lil Waynes Tha Carter 2 he is wearing two very expensive looking crucifix's and in this cover 50 Cent's crucifix seems to take attention away from the gun with the shine of the diamonds almost coming at you. This shows even though they may resolve to crime they still look to God for guidance to help them get through life and be successfull.
50 Cents album cover is all in black and white, He continues this theme with his font its very bold and it being black on white and white on black it really helps it stand out and the "guess whos back" is written in the same font that most crime files are written in on the front. He uses very basic font and colours to show you that your gettin everything on the front including lyrics about money violence crime and religion. This is very stereotypical of a young black male but rapper 50 cent doesnt seem to mind because hes got where he is by living his lifestyle this way so he feels no need to change.
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