Eminem (Iconography research).

I have chosen an artist from the same genre as my Professor Green, who has had a long-lasting career Eminem. I'm going to evaluate the iconography between Eminem's website (From a previous post), an album/single cover and a music video, to see how effective they are and how they're used: I am confident that this will help me develop my chosen ideas.

Like Toy Soldiersis a cover by Eminem, only using a vocal sample of the original song. The lyrics depict many problems within the rap community, especially in rap-wars between artists and finds Eminem attempting to explain and offer a truce to his enemies. The single cover for this song (above) contains Eminem's logo, which has (as previously stated) accompanied him through out his career, making the artist recognisable. The font has remained the same to that of his name for the title, and this is a re-occuring theme through out the covers of Eminem's songs and website (for the logo of his name). The front cover of this single links excellently to the video where Eminem seems to compare the lives of rappers to toys (perhaps suggesting that their lives are thrown away needlessly), it depicts a literal toy solider with blood leaking from its body. This along with the video, illustrates Eminem's point effectively and in turn, makes for an effective single cover.