if you've heard over half of these people, you need to get off the internet: xxl freshman 2012

http://www.j-14.com/2010/09/17/MindlessBehavior2.jpg

mindless behavior should be on this list

different shape, too

the "2012 b2k" cover of vibe doesn't drop until june iirc

aren't mindless behavior an r&b group xp

mindless behavior have some dope songs

...

i still don';t have a real solid grasp of who "michelle trachtenburg" is, and every time i see her name I assume the girl from Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players grew up and got famous

No, that girl is Rachel Trachteberg who grew up to form the short lived band Supercute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404FHOnpDfg

sorry but money boy was robbed

voted french montana

im assuming ASAP turned down the cover. Did Schoolboy Q?

who else might you be thinking of, Al? neither of those guys are as big as French or Future in real-world terms

Danny Brown - obviously talented but not really my thing
Don Trip - 'step brothers' is solid and i briefly listened to his new mixtape the other day and it sounded good. i guess starlito already make xxl freshmen?
French Montana - 'coke wave' is a classic and while it should be max in his place, i'm cool with french flying the wavy flag ~~
Future - feel having both 'tony montana' and 'racks' under his belt should disqualify him from this. i wanna hear more crooning pop from future e.g 'no matter what'
Machine Gun Kelly - that one song with waka is ok
Roscoe Dash - man i love 'all the way turnt up' so much i might just vote for roscoe even though that song is a couple of years old now. i check for a tape from him last year and it was really garbage.

haven't heard:
Hopsin
Iggy Azalea
Kid Ink
Macklemore

Meanwhile:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/02/xxl_freshman_issue_azealia_banks_iggy_azalea.php

im assuming ASAP turned down the cover. Did Schoolboy Q?

? danny brown is on it

oh you mean you voted for him

my vote is french fwiw

Meanwhile:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/02/xxl_freshman_issue_azealia_banks_iggy_azalea.php

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:24 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

andy has some v weird perspectives on things imho

i think his overall point that XXL is super hit or miss is obv correct tho

other possible rapper who might have turned it down: action bronson?

I guess he's as popular as some of these guys by now?
sooner or later, xxl is gonna troll and include like yolanda and ninja or something

who liked fannypack here ?

asap turned it down i'm sure, i doubt schoolboy did... i mean kendrick did it last year

yeah, someday xxl will troll with this list. someday.

that VV post is weird

"this list will continue to be made because people talk about it on twitter"

no shit!

who liked fannypack here ?

― sisilafami, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:52 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i did but more as like hipster dance music than as rappers

noz's writeup is pretty funny

I loled at "Max B's Second Life avatar"

I'm by no means a Macklemore fan. He's awful, actually. But just because you East Coast folks haven't heard of him doesn't mean he's nobody, fyi. He's a big star out here in the hinterlands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmhyqz24oTs

"weird" to deej = opinions that are not the same as his

xp ha, wasn't that when he opened for wiz khalifa and like half the crowd left before wiz?

Noz is always the best at this. I'm still laughing at when he said FRED the godson "looks like a giant baby"

wtf at this Iggy AZALALA somg where she calls herself a "runaway slave master"

This must be the first instance in history of an australian being insensitive about African-American culture

dying rn

finally got around to listening to iggy
she has very nice hips
PROTIP: do not put a prepubescent boy riding a hobby horse in your video called "pussy"

i kind of fucks with Hopsin in a 99 Eminem way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bULBnef6w6k

plus a pug in the video at 3:32 = pandering ti the locals

a 99 Eminem way

im assuming ASAP turned down the cover. Did Schoolboy Q?

who else might you be thinking of, Al? neither of those guys are as big as French or Future in real-world terms

― D-40, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:16 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe earl sweatshirt or kreayshawn?

i have no idea what you're talking about re: popularity vs. Future, i wasn't saying that anyone who turned down the cover is bigger than everyone on the cover (just that they might be gassed and THINK they are)

Yah I was agreeing w you - just saying, if asap turned it down, hes def not bigger than future or french, so it would have to be branding reasons

Lex, not all opinions are created equal

And, as a person who loves many obscure rappers, if I haven't heard of a guy on the cover of a rap magazine, it's a good sign that that rapper scored a coup by getting there.

**hops in**

I kind of want Harry Connick Jr to bumrush the next show by rapping koala asshole Izzy Azalea and be like "Nawww nawww we don't do that in Americuh"

2nd career as australian racist shamer

Voted Danny Brown, but French is a close second. Don Trip and Future I listen to sometimes. The rest is a write off or I haven't heard it. (Who did Kid Ink snuggle up to for this inclusion)

Voted Danny brown, haven't heard anyone else

(It’s pretty telling that the bald guy’s video album review of XXX has twice as many Youtube hits as any actual Danny Brown music video.)

lol

Noz's take

this is life

http://i.imgur.com/bWnV5.jpg

grandpa's here