Pop Music Website Analysis

For my “Pop Music Website Analysis” I picked Ice Cube a rapper from Los Angeles, CA you might know him from a late 80’s rap group called “N.W.A” and a film director with movies such as the “Friday series”. When you look at his website its colored red and black a real dark rough color, which seems like an Ice Cube kind of style he is known to be real rough and tough in his raps and even movies (But not including movies like “Are we there yet” you have to remember he is a business man), the font and text is real “gangsta” and it has a “West Coast” feel to it which Ice Cube is all about the West Coast. The imagines on the web site are all pretty much of Ice Cube and they all are pretty much the same facial expression which is a “mean mug” look like he is just pissed at the world but if you listen to Ice Cube his music is pretty much forget the world kind of attitude as if he had a chip on his shoulder, so the dark colors and the west coast font/text all look like an Ice Cube look. But Ice Cube isn’t all about forgetting the world he shows a family side by promoting his son “OMG” an upcoming rapper, he is putting his son’s mix tape and a YouTube video of his son on the main page of the web site. And of course it couldn’t be his web site if it didn’t have things about him, he also promotes himself by showing his latest music and hits on a playlist and upcoming movies that he is in or that he made such as the new movie “21 Jump Street”, he also has a Twitter widget and it has the latest tweets which on the tweets he talks about his son’s music, movies and touring (He is touring the U.S in July). And just like any web site it has a store he has his own line of clothing “Solo by Cube”, also tour dates like where he is touring, a blog where you can talk about him and latest news on new albums and his son’s album. I think this web site says what kind of man Ice Cube is a rapper, a father, and a business man, and it fits all together I don’t see anything wrong with the web site that would work against the artist the web sites imagine or message is simple he is a rapper so of course it’s going to be rough and tough, and it has the west coast feel to it which is what Ice Cube represents, it has a small family feel which he promotes his son and his son has a similar style to his father so it fits in perfect. Overall I found this web site to fit the style of Ice Cube I couldn’t find anything wrong it could be because he is one of my favorite artists, but that’s what the assignment was an artist I like.        

http://www.icecube.com/