I'm starting to think that XXL Freshmen list is a curse!

usmarin3
usmarin3 Members Posts: 38,013 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 2011 in The Reason
Drake - dropped a mediocre pop album
Nicki - dropped a mediocre pop album
BoB - dropped a mediocre pop album
Wiz - dropped a mediocre pop album
Cudi - dropped a mediocre pop album
Asher Roth - dropped a mediocre pop album
Wale - dropped a mediocre pop album
Charles Hamilton - got dropped by his label and popped by his girl
Mickey Factz - somewhere on the underground
Ace Hood - mediocre albums
Cory Gunz - who knows
Blu - doing his underground thing
Big Sean - mediocre pop album
J Cole - we will see
Fashawn - doing his underground thing
Freddie Gibbs - popping his mouth
Jay Rock - hmmmm
OJ the Juiceman - no comment
Pill - signed to MMG, we will see

I didn't add the 2011 class, because it's too soon.

Not one classic album, a bunch of mediocre pop albums. Is it eve a good thing to be on this list?
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  • DubbGotti614
    DubbGotti614 Members Posts: 308 ✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Jay Rock just put out a quality album this past week
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  • Trollio
    Trollio Members Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    im starting to think you post too much
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  • TheIraq
    TheIraq Members Posts: 5,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    The Hacker wrote: »
    im starting to think you post too much

    Damn hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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  • georgia boi
    georgia boi Members Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Drake and Nicki Minaj were never apart of the XXL Freshman list.

    Despite what their albums turned out to be, I think XXL's Freshman List is great platform for new artists. The only downside to it is that the biggest and brightest stars were the ones that didn't do the cover i.e. Drake and Nicki.
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  • Zig Zag Zigga
    Zig Zag Zigga Members Posts: 417
    edited July 2011
    This speaks more to what is getting hyped in the mainstream rap game not just XXL Freshman list
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  • haute
    haute Members Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Or maybe the list just picks mediocre artists

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  • just.might.b.ok
    just.might.b.ok Members Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Blu might be dead by now, nobody knew what happened to this ? after Below The Heavens (classic) and a few collabs.
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  • cobbland
    cobbland Members Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    usmarin3 wrote: »
    Drake - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Nicki - dropped a mediocre pop album
    BoB - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Wiz - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Cudi - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Asher Roth - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Wale - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Charles Hamilton - got dropped by his label and popped by his girl
    Mickey Factz - somewhere on the underground
    Ace Hood - mediocre albums
    Cory Gunz - who knows
    Blu - doing his underground thing
    Big Sean - mediocre pop album
    J Cole - we will see
    Fashawn - doing his underground thing
    Freddie Gibbs - popping his mouth
    Jay Rock - hmmmm
    OJ the Juiceman - no comment
    Pill - signed to MMG, we will see

    I didn't add the 2011 class, because it's too soon.

    Not one classic album, a bunch of mediocre pop albums. Is it eve a good thing to be on this list?

    I doubt any of their freshmen lists can top this lineup.

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  • Trollio
    Trollio Members Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    cobbland wrote: »
    I doubt any of their freshmen lists can top this lineup.

    077.jpg

    only 7 ? on that list is worth ?

    kurupt
    8 ball
    cam
    dmx
    pun
    slik
    nore
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  • Zig Zag Zigga
    Zig Zag Zigga Members Posts: 417
    edited July 2011
    The Hacker wrote: »
    only 7 ? on that list is worth ?

    kurupt
    8 ball
    cam
    dmx
    pun
    slik
    nore

    You forgot the slang gargoyle
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  • Trollio
    Trollio Members Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Zig Zag Zigga wrote: »
    You forgot the slang gargoyle

    ? the slang gargoyle
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  • Zig Zag Zigga
    Zig Zag Zigga Members Posts: 417
    edited July 2011
    The Hacker wrote: »
    ? the slang gargoyle
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJTvyedbEs


    1:58 .
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  • Dakari
    Dakari Members Posts: 9,387 ✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    usmarin3 wrote: »
    Drake - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Nicki - dropped a mediocre pop album
    BoB - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Wiz - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Cudi - dropped a mediocre pop album FALSE
    Asher Roth - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Wale - dropped a mediocre pop album
    Charles Hamilton - got dropped by his label and popped by his girl
    Mickey Factz - somewhere on the underground
    Ace Hood - mediocre albums
    Cory Gunz - who knows
    Blu - doing his underground thing
    Big Sean - mediocre pop album
    J Cole - we will see
    Fashawn - doing his underground thing
    Freddie Gibbs - popping his mouth
    Jay Rock - hmmmm (dropped a dope album recently)
    OJ the Juiceman - no comment
    Pill - signed to MMG, we will see

    I didn't add the 2011 class, because it's too soon.

    Not one classic album, a bunch of mediocre pop albums. Is it eve a good thing to be on this list?

    agree for the most part tho
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  • andre_1024
    andre_1024 Members Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Bob, Asher, Big Sean, Jay Rock dropped solid debuts..Wale, Cudi, Fashawn, Blu dropped great debuts..
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  • smittysmith
    smittysmith Members Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Well my ? Curren$y doing his thing so I guess he immune to the sucker ass curse....well sucker ? period.
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  • Disciplined InSight
    Disciplined InSight Members Posts: 13,478 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    haute wrote: »
    Or maybe the list just picks mediocre artists

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    This post is the only valuable answer. Case closed.
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  • idoitforhiphop10
    idoitforhiphop10 Members Posts: 5,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    drake and nicki weren't even freshmen.
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  • ShencotheMC
    ShencotheMC Members Posts: 26,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    Nah the list USED to be credible until that 2011 ? with lil b and fuckign lil twist. But nah most of them ? just didn't capitalize off the buzz. B.o.b, Cudi, Big Sean, and Spitta have been the only ones from the lists that are actually doing their own thing. They're just making predictions, who could have known that Chucky Ham would have such a fall from grace? Who could have known that Asher Roth's album wouldn't do ? even after he had all the white folks on his ? with I love College? It's not really a curse they just picking folks who they see are doing their thing and who you should probably be on the look out for. Just because them dudes have failed to do their part means nothing.
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  • Disciplined InSight
    Disciplined InSight Members Posts: 13,478 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2011
    idoitforhiphop10 wrote: »
    drake and nicki weren't even freshmen.

    They both released DEBUT albums so it yeah..in that term they're freshmen.
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  • T. Sanford
    T. Sanford Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 25,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
    The Hacker wrote: »
    im starting to think you post too much

    Lmao............
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  • idoitforhiphop10
    idoitforhiphop10 Members Posts: 5,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
    Disciplined InSight wrote: »
    They both released DEBUT albums so it yeah..in that term they're freshmen.

    my bad i worded it wrong. i meant to say that they weren't on the freshmen cover, so therefore they're not apart of the xxl freshmen curse.
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  • Co_Town_Michael
    Co_Town_Michael Members Posts: 5,551 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
    Jay Rock put out a hot album.
    Pill got a couple solid mixtapes.
    OJ.. whether you love him or hate him he is doing his thing with his mixtapes.
    J. Cole, Cory Gunz, and Big Sean.... no comment at all.
    Fashawn... that ? work at Wal-Mart or something now.
    Ace Hood is wack and all of his songs sound the same.
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  • Lab Baby
    Lab Baby Members Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
    I'm gonna catch some heat for this, but Cudi is 2 for 2 right now. Both them albums were dope. He may not be the best rapper skill wise (maybe the worst out that list), but when it comes to the music that HE makes (stoner, emo music), he's the best at it, definitely better than Wiz or Drake songwise. And cats act like BOB was never on that pop ? til he got signed. Half that album he made before he got signed. Satellite is dumb old.
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  • Dakari
    Dakari Members Posts: 9,387 ✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
    Cudi consistently dope
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  • ysl313
    ysl313 Members Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
    spitta and cudi have put out quality music since before those covers and haven't stopped...
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