Digipak Analysis
- 1. Digipak Analysis By Danny Newell
- 2. 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Trying • • • • • • • 50 Cent’s 2nd Album Released - February 6, 2003 Recorded - 2002 Genre - Hip hop Length - 69:32 Label - Aftermath, Interscope, Shady Producer - Dr. Dre (also exec.), Eminem (also exec.), Sean Blaze, Darrell Branch, Dirty Swift, DJ Rad, Terence Dudley, Mike Elizondo, John "J-Praize" Freeman, Megahertz, Denaun Porter, Red Spyda, Reef, Rockwilder, Sha Money XL.
- 3. The artist’s name, the album name, and a picture of the artist is all that makes up this front cover. The picture in the centre has been edited to replicate a bullet hole. This is relevant to the artist’s life as he was shot numerous times years ago and is still alive to this day. He also is wearing a big sliver crucifix round his neck on a chain. This is in the centre of the bullet hole, maybe meaning that the cross is indestructible, as is God. That could be a subliminal religious message hidden in the artists album artwork. There is also a parental advisory stamp, explaining that the content isn’t suitable for children.
- 4. Here on the back of 50 Cent’s ‘Get Rich Or Die Trying’ we have the album track list. The track list is written over an image, the image being 50’s hometown of Jamaica Queens in which he was born and raised. The angle in which the photo is taken, really exaggerates 50 Cent’s muscular physique, glorifying his tattoos and piercings. The barcode on the back is there for the simple reason of purchasing the album in a shop.
- 5. The CD is a very basic disk. It has ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ on the front in gold, which is so relivant to the title as gold makes you rich! The bullet holes are a recurring theme throughout the whole digi-pack, and also the colour red is too. I think this may relate to blood, and blood being spilt in order to ‘get rich’ and if it doesn’t happen, you ‘die tryin’ as does the title say. The black background colour of the disk looks very classy and slick, metallic black does this, therefore providing a glossy look to the disk.
- 6. The inside cover consists of much of the same as the front cover. The same image has been used with the bullet hole aimed at the crucifix in which hangs down from 50 Cent’s neck. The main feature on this inside cover is the tag that is promoting his featuring singles/songs on the album. This will automatically draw the target audience’s attention to the featuring songs as they are the ones that promise the most, in order for them to be displayed on their own on the inside cover.