In what context did you encounter it? (web, film, TV etc)

I encountered these contexts through various aspects throughout my life including music channels, magazines and posters. For my coursework I chose Hip Hop so needed influence from other pieces of this genre.

What influence do you think this context might have had on your interpretation of the text?

I took inspiration for my work from a large variety of artists including MF Doom, Madlib, 

To what genre did you initially assign the text?

What is your experience of this genre?

What subject matter and basic themes is the text concerned with?

How typical of the genre is this text in terms of content?

What expectations do you have about texts in this genre?

Have you found any formal generic labels for this particular text (where)?

What generic labels have others given the same text?

Which conventions of the genre do you recognize in the text?

To what extent does this text stretch the conventions of its genre?

Where and why does the text depart from the conventions of the genre?

Which conventions seem more like those of a different genre (and which genre(s))?

What familiar motifs or images are used?

Which of the formal/stylistic techniques employed are typical/untypical of the genre?

What institutional constraints are reflected in the form of the text?

What relationship to 'reality' does the text lay claim to?

Whose realities does it reflect?

What purposes does the genre serve?

In what ways are these purposes embodied in the text?

To what extent did your purposes match these when you engaged with the text?

What ideological assumptions and values seem to be embedded in the text?

What pleasures does this genre offer to you personally?

What pleasures does the text appeal to (and how typical of the genre is this)?

Did you feel 'critical or accepting, resisting or validating, casual or concentrated, apathetic or motivated' (and why)?

Which elements of the text seemed salient because of your knowledge of the genre?

What predictions about events did your generic identification of the text lead to (and to what extent did these prove accurate)?

What inferences about people and their motivations did your genre identification give rise to (and how far were these confirmed)?

How and why did your interpretation of the text differ from the interpretation of the same text by other people?