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Is his flow heavier than Lunar C’s? If so when he drops a bar I wonder how much weight he loses! Apparently, there’s going to be a new “Don’t flop golden boy” tearing up the rap battling scene.

Absolutely bodying every opponent he comes up against, the 16 year old has incredible lyrical talent. He has come out of nowhere! Dropping huge disses on each battler whom tries to take him on is left deflated and mentally destroyed.

The battle newbie has come fresh out of Doncaster, Armthorpe to be specific! This little village in the little village Doncaster is basically not even on the map! It isn’t renowned for anything big; they haven’t had any world cup winners or Olympic gold medallists! Liam Lindsay the new up and comer is the best thing to come out of Armthorpe since Kevin Keegan! –That’s my opinion anyway.

I was lucky enough to have a chat with Liam while he was chillin’ where they usually go to hang out or “doss” as they call it around here. Some of the lingo that has been brought to don’t flop by Liam’s battles is un-real, rappers have started to follow/imitate his flows and way he drops them with them. Liam was very welcoming, not like the hoodlum, hooligans the media are always hyping about. He wasn’t f’ing this, f’ing that every sentence either! I was starting wonder whether this battle rapper was for real or he was putting a face on to fool me! But it was all legitimate, it came as a bit of a shock actually, it’s almost as if he becomes a demon when he raps and he is suddenly possessed by something evil that wants to kill his opponent and cause as much damage to his mind and ego before he finished him/her off! So far his tactic has worked bang on! He was a completely down to earth lad, couldn’t knock his personality at all, he even bought me fish and chips, so he is automatically in my good books, I just hope I’m in his so I don’t get embarrassed world-wide when it is put on you tube. Much like the rest of his opponents no matter how sick their performance is they are absolutely hammered by Liam!

Make sure you all watch for this kid on your televisions that’s the only new high he could go to. He’s already smashed the you tube and sound cloud views, one with his battles and the other with his heavy beats and bars in song form! I told you this boy was a rare talent.

He is currently in the process of making a new video he tells me and there’s also gonna’ be a new “massive tune” his passion for music makes him sound big headed and arrogant, but it is the love he has for the music he creates which makes him think so highly of it. So if anybody would like to tell him he’s arrogant, I’d sincerely you don’t agree to battle him!

Models, photoshoot plan and equipment

Model(s): Liam Lindsay and Rory Lumsden

Equiment Needed: Digital Camera, Green Screen, Lights and Model(s).

 Photoshoot Plan:

Date: 18/11/2012 and 19/11/2012
Models: Liam Lindsay and Rory Lumsden
Equipment: No equipment will be needed for this photoshoot.
Clothes: Parker, white t-shirt and Plain Black Jacket.

I want to have all my photo's taken in a maximum of two days to get it out of the way and finish it quickly so i can go straight onto editing the photo's to put into my magazine. Ideally i want at least two or three photo's of Liam as he is who the magazine is mainly based on.

mock double page spread

Mock of my contents page

Mock front cover

Initial ideas.

Initial ideas:

Rap battle magazine – Don’t flop because im a big fan of their work.

Front cover

·         Whole/Majority one dominant picture as the back ground.

·         Mid shot of rapper in a battle rapping.

·         Head overlapping the title.

·         Colour scheme - Grey, icey blue and pink. My artist will wear a blue to go with the text and the pink will contrast to the other colours and other important information can be in this colour.

·         Masthead right at the top, big and bold.

·         Logo top left corner (small)

·         Bar code bottom left corner

 

Contents page

·         Mid shot of rapper

·         Stacked title

·         Information down the left hand side in small-ish text.

·         A “DF” in back ground corresponds with name of magazine. Not very vibrant, blends in almost.

 

Double page spread

·         One page a total image.

·         Page with the text I want a big logo for don’t flop or one that represents the artist, e.g a piece of album artwork or their initials.

·         Big, bold text colour corresponding with the snap back being worn by rapper / artist.

·         First letter of piece of text big, bold and corresponding colour with the logo, initials or artwork. With a long shot picture of the artist stood next to the letter.

·         Title large, and colour corresponding with the snap back again.