Analysis of DVD/CD cover

Below is the CD cover for Lil' Waynes album "Tha Carter III" As you can see from the picture of Lil' Wayne he has the same tattoos on his hands and face as the little boy on the album cover, suggesting that this was infact Lil Wayne when he was younger.It has got a very plain plain black background so all the focus is on Lil Wayne. Because the picture is of little wayne as a child, it could suggest that the songs are about his childhood and his life so far.




In the picture on this album cover, the writing is quite simple, but the top half says Lil Wayne in red, then you look at the picture of him and you can see he is wearing a red hat, so maybe the colour red means a lot to him. The parental advisory sticker that some of these songs could be quite inappropriate, and it says it has explicit content. By using a picture of a small child on a album with explicit content is quite risky as it could cause quite a lot of controversy. I think its very clever how they've made the little child seem to be a young Lil Wayne by putting all the tattoos on him, and the ring on his finger. It makes you wonder what all the tattoos mean, because hes obviously got them throughout his life so perhaps the songs might explain what they are and why hes got them.