It's amazing that it's already been a year since the 2014 XXL Freshman cover, when we unveiled our Dirty Dozen featuring two R&B artists for the first time ever ...
Beyond debates about whether the round-up represents an accurate snapshot of upcoming rap talent in 2014 though, a statistical break-down of the fortunes of the XXL freshmen past and present throws up ...
Kendrick Lamar heats up the cover of XXL Magazine's Winter 2014 issue. This marks the Compton rhymer's first solo cover for the hip-hop publication. He appeared on the 2011 Freshman Class issue, ...
Lupe Fiasco. B.o.B. Kendrick Lamar. J. Cole. There are few, if any regrettable choices for XXL‘s annual “freshmen class” list headliner, and their choice for 2014 is already an established talent, ...
XXL released a fresh batch of Freshman freestyles over the course of this past week, following the previous pool of bars from Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa, Rich Homie Quan, and others. It’s still the ...
As Lil Wayne prepares to embark on his major Drake Vs. Lil Wayne summer tour next month, the Young Money honcho lands the cover of XXL Magazine's August/September ...
During yesterday’s taping of 106 & Park, the 2014 XXL Freshmen were revealed to the world. It featured a healthy conglomerate of artists from all over the globe starring August Alsina, Chance the ...
Townsquare Media is buying XXL, the 17-year old urban hip-hop magazine from Harris Publications, and will immediately stop producing a regular print edition, The Post has learned. The October-November ...
Las Vegas native Dizzy Wright won the People's Choice vote in the 2013 XXL Freshmen class as a result of his consistent buzz from his Smokeout Conversations album and The First Agreement mixtape. Even ...