I don’t see anybody talking about the freestyles, artists or upcoming cyphers, especially like everybody did before. Remember in 2016-2017 when it would be trending everywhere and ktt thread would be constantly active

I don’t even know a single artist on that cover

Baby Keem on it so no

I will say that even though I don't listen to any of those rappers I at least have seen like 80% of their names a couple times at one point

Idk if that's a good thing though

No its pretty cool. Justice for flo milli tho

yeah, all the interesting artists (polo, keed, tjay, keem) have all been discussed plenty and have established themselves

Freshman list is pointless now. Over half this list has credits on a song that went gold or higher.

In 2016-2017 they were trending cause people were editing their heads with trashcan atleast this time it's not happening.

I mean most of these rappers on this list are already hot and not really upcoming and the others were just unknown until this list came out.

it’s not exciting anymore bc XXL is getting progressively more late on these artists as the years go by. we’re seeing faster turnover rates for rappers blowing up, so inevitably, each XXL list is less and less on time

xxl freshmen list's been fell off a long time ago

Way better than 2017 and 2018

Crine

Baby Keem ft Who

Idk if that’s a bad thing, I just think it should be like a rookie year thing, having a hit is fine

this has to be a lie lmfao

I f*** with two artists on that cover, good enough for me.

i mean its got Baby Keem but probably 1-2 years too late

this dude named mulatto ?

YUNG JOC DEFENDS HIMSELF

Issa woman

It's just not a freshman class lol instead of trying to predict who will blow up to the mainstream now it's just a compilation of people that already blew up in the mainstream in the past year

Willing to bet 24kgoldn has the most successful career of anyone on this list (i know ktt gonna kill me for this one but im literally 1000000000000% confident in this)