History of Vibe Magazine

Vibe is a magazine that contains the genres of Hip Hop and R and B. Vibe magazine was first founded by Quincy Jones in 1993, the magazine was also in partnership with the Times Inc. Before Scott-Poylson-Bryant who is the co-founding editor of Vibe gave the magazine its name it was originally called Volume. However during 1996 Miller Publishing purchased vibe, after changing many things about who worked for the magazine and how it worked in 2009 vide shut its doors in order to start publication. After Vibe had shut their doors they then had private funding from 'InterMedia Partners, LP' who has purchased Vibe magazine. Then once again Vibe was being brought by another company, during 2013 Vibe magazine, Vibe.com and VibeVixen.com had all be sold to Spin Media. Spin Magazine were going to shut down Vibe however in order to save money they they only printed the magazine quarterly. 

Vibe magazine was known most for the creative direction that the covers had, with the covers showing the biggest people in R and B and Hip Hop music. The covers of Vibe have features many different artists including Rihanna, Trey Songz, T.I, Lil Wayne, Keyshia Cole and many more. With Mary J Blige being features of the cover a countless amount of times. 

Vibe magazine contains many different columns including the 'Boomshots' which was about Reggae and Caribbean music which was written by Rob Kenner. There was also the 'Revolutions' which was music reviews, 'Vibe Confidential' a column all about celebrity gossip and a 'Next' column which was all about profiled and up coming artists. Although Vibe was a music magazine it also included pages on high-end designer clothing including urban labels like 'Rocawear' and 'Fubu' which were known for their sports wear. 

The last issue of Vibe was in September 2003, it was a commemorating issue of 10 years of the magazines publication. The last issue had many different covers on it using black and white portraits of all of the most popular issues. The last issue also included 'The Vibe 100: The Juiciest People, Places and Things of the year'. Lots of successful writers and editors all helped towards the last issue of Vibe including Alan Light, Jeff Chang, Dream Hampton and Mark Shaw who was Vibes art director.