serenadei really do wonder how much longer XXL will keep this going purely out of the sake of tradition. these are the total views for each years cyphers, it's getting pretty bleak:
2011 - 16.7m
2012 - 7.4m
2013 - 15.5m
2014 - 44.4m
2015 - 6.3m
2016 - 290m
2017 - 77.2m
2018 - 45m
2019 - 67.4m
2020 - 35.1m
2021 - 12.4m
2022 - 6.6m
2023 - 4.6m
2024 - 2.2m
2025 - 1.5mYikes. This is the most telling stat
the only person i know here is the skrilla guy whos always rapping about fent
·1 replyThey’re like 3 years late on babyfxce e
Mondegreen"Belly Gang Kushington"
·1 replyThat one girl looks like Akademiks
I know Chris, La Reezy & Trap
That’s bout it
Not bad tho based off them three
67 class
Why they call it hip hop when they can’t rap a lick
- cyclops
That one girl looks like Akademiks
Nah that's akademiks with a wig bro
- Mondegreen
Crazy how when you look up these people most (?) of them seem to be getting like 100k views on videos?
Idk if the 2016 class per se had Billboard chart hits at the time of it, but surely all of them had way more established followings then these people do now?
XXL over the last few years has basically become a summary of all the rappers that got a lil 100k views semi viral song/moment that year and won’t ever do anything close to that again
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Benny BoyHe did the One The Radar thing. Those are their ops
Nah can't be the reason cause La Reezy has been on there like three times lol
Good for Chris Patrick, he’s the best one on this list
This is the first list where not only haven’t I listened to their music but I’ve never heard of any of these people at all.
- Smacked Voodoo
Nah can't be the reason cause La Reezy has been on there like three times lol
You're right. He did the same cypher. Idk then
SABMAN TURNT 🧔🏻W for YKNIECE
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SuperSaiyanDamn 2016 was the last good one
look at the lineups in retrospect, they got a lot of good lists in moe recent years
If these are the so called “Freshmen”, none of these niggas are graduating
This still a thing
I’m so f***ing old, man
Hiphop is dead
BIRTH CERTIFICATEit keeps getting worse every year
JbreezyondeckIs Chris Patrick the white one
Nah he’s black and he can rap
