...for the April 2010 issue.If you remember, last year XXL completely dropped the ball by excluding both Nicki Minaj and Drake off of their highly debated list of emerging emcees. So this year they asked both of the Young Money members to join the "Freshmen Class of 2010" and if you haven't noticed by looking at the cover above, they declined. I'm not sure who thought it would be a good idea to even ask them to appear on this list after snubbing them last year...probably the same person who was too slow to put them on it the first time around.
I think XXL shot themselves in the foot with this whole "10 Freshman" thing to begin with. By giving the Freshman class a specific number they've put themselves in a position where they have to try and fill 10 spots every year. As result, people like OJ Da Juiceman make the cut....
Yep, you heard it correctly. He just rhymed "basketball player" with "basketball player". Smfh....chances are that shit was ghostwritten.
Anywho, they should just call it "The Freshmen Class of (Whatever Year)" without including a specific number of artist. That way they can only include artists that are truly worthy of being featured, whether it's 3 or 10.
Head over to XXL to read about these up and coming artists, who with the exception of J. Cole, Nipsey Hu$$le and Big Sean probably won't be around this time next year.
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