THE RECESSION IS OVER: XXL freshman class of 2011 poll

april seems like a decade ago thanks to the internet

this was probably the first place i saw the name "mac miller"

when this magazine came out people still cared about odd future.

Also, I get YG and YC confused.

and both should bow down to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPfuDCbhu3c

this list isn't half bad, tho i'd be surprised if it contains any stars nearly on the level of some of the past years

this list isn't half b—

lol

meek mill

this guy is cool enough

big k.r.i.t.

still go back & forth on him, as i think we all do. responsible for maybe the most great music out of everyone on this list, but can be very generic and may be better suited as a producer that sometimes raps than a rapper/producer

cyhi the prince

man, if this guy ever becomes successful i'm gonna be really mad. again, not necessarily offensively awful, but depressingly generic in almost every sense. let's keep him away from chris brown.

lil twist

truly have no idea/how why lil twist is on this list. was tyga on one of the original incarnations? in any event, maybe someone at YM threw some favors at xxl. can't hate him since he's a small child, but obv have zero use for him.

yelawolf

will prob vote for yela. his album seems destined to be very good, though probably not profitable in any meaningful sense. hopefully the industry doesn't swallow his career up once he sells 8k in his first week.

fred the godson

can't imagine that we'll ever hear from this guy in any meaningful sense. not sure he can actually write a song, let alone 11 of them.

mac miller

what is there to say? let's hope he goes the way of the asher.

yg

"toot it & boot it" is of course a classic. not even remotely shocking that there's been no peep from him since.

lil b

i am a lil b fan, seems weird to even put him in the context of these other rappers. i considered voting for him, but his output to me is still 10% amazing straight classics, 80% stuff that's decent, 10% stuff that's not necessarily listenable. altho as a persona his existence is most important to me of everyone on this list.

kendrick lamar

i fuck w/ lamar, think he has good buzz now & will get industry push & could see him ascending to cudi/khalifa levels this time next year if he plays his cards right.

diggy simmons

again, he's a small child, so it's hard to get mad. but he is infuriating in the sense that you'd wish a 14 year old wouldn't fashion himself after yung berg or something. there is really no reason for him to exist except for us to feel happy that one of rev run's children was able to transcend reality tv faux-stardom.

cyhi the prince will probably be just as successful as big sean, which can't possibly be as bad as big sean's success

his output to me is still 10% amazing straight classics

i know you're trying to be measured and rational here but you just said he has 100 classic songs, gtfo

diggy can kinda rap

Thought about yelawolf, voted lil b, not even listened to any of the others.

I love Yela and Lil B, but I voted for Kendrick. Section.80 is probably top three rap albums of the year for me.

Thought about yelawolf, voted lil b, not even listened to any of the others.
--prego

Signed, indie rock.

hahaha

Went w Kendrick, probably should have gone w KRIT, thought about Meek & Yela. For some reason Cyhi bugs as much as Mac Miller.

fred the godson

can't imagine that we'll ever hear from this guy in any meaningful sense. not sure he can actually write a song, let alone 11 of them.

disagree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALmvSav0xRo

^^^banger

voted kendrick, i f/w

kendrick
meek mill
fred

to a lesser degree,
krit
yelawolf

think that lil b's buzz totally outgrew his music & we're in a contracting phase where ppl are starting to be like, uhh hold up this is just aite. do think '6 kiss' will be remembered as a messy classic but i cant imagine him getting any bigger than he is

krit easily

anyone i didnt mention deserves 0 bars

deej i'd like to read a sequel to that first krit piece you wrote a couple years ago on his career and your changing feelings toward him

noted (srs)

That FtG track is cool.

if you could choose between saving the members of xxl freshman class of 2011 (incl yg) from certain death or preventing a .zip file containing the world's last .mp3 & master of toot it & boot it from being deleted which would u choose--c'mon

cyhi the prince will probably be just as successful as big sean, which can't possibly be as bad as big sean's success

― big spiritual hat club (some dude), Tuesday, September 6, 2011 1:33 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

trying to think of other rappers with names as unmarketable as "cyhi the prince" who have hit the level of popularity big sean stands to reach

i still dont know how to pronounce dude's name

bcuz no one i know irl has ever mentioned him

if we're getting all ilxor about it, also

I BANG THIS
1. yelawolf
2. big k.r.i.t.
3. kendrick lamar

THESE GUYS ARE P GOOD AT TIMES BUT PROLLY DONT HAVE AN ALBUM IN EM
4. meek mill
5. fred the godson
6. yg
7. diggy simmons
8. lil b

FUCK U SUCK A DICK DIE BITCH *BLAM BLAM*
9. cyhi the prince
10. lil twist
11. mac miller

i f/w krit, yela, basedgod, kendrick. voted for yelawolf.

seems like kendrick might end up being the star outta these dudes?

i dunno, when i went to the Gathering of The Juggal0s I got like 5 compliments on my Yelawolf t-shirt.

insane clown posse fans in loving white rapper shocker

meek mill already has two hit singles....

anyway I fuck with all of these people to some degree:

Meek Mill (getting my vote obv)
KRIT
Lil B
Kendrick
YG
Fred

the rest are wack... especially Yelawolf.

i could easily tilt towards meek mill on a different day over kendrick. meek mill is def more up my alley.

smh at thinking YG is a better rapper than Yelawolf.

yelawolf doesn't have a song as good as "toot it & boot it." or "patty cake."

voted krit, totally my boring classicist jam

I wouldn't say Meek Mill "has two hit singles," when he has a hit w/o Ross on it I'll say he's on a roll. that said, I voted for him because "Ima Boss" is my jam right now.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

cant stand 'ima boss'

! that's crazy. So glad you can hear a dude who actually fucking raps his ass off on the radio again

its also millions of miles >>>>> than the new Ross single that just leaked. Just Blazzzzzzzz

if you could choose between saving the members of xxl freshman class of 2011 (incl yg) from certain death or preventing a .zip file containing the world's last .mp3 & master of toot it & boot it from being deleted which would u choose--c'mon

― flopson, Thursday, September 8, 2011 1:30 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

c'mon

i dont rlly like toot it THAT much in the end

I'm going with hometown hero MEEK MILL

i know you're trying to be measured and rational here but you just said he has 100 classic songs, gtfo

― big spiritual hat club (some dude), Tuesday, September 6, 2011 1:37 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

lol, i guess i meant 10% classic OF SONGS THAT I'VE HEARD. which is like... 40% of his output or something

i sorta feel like meek mill could carry some momentum over from the ross singles... esp if he can manage to carve out a radio niche as roughneck east coast rapper in a vast sea of skinny jeans rap.

i hope that in 2012 i'll be able to vote for fat trel

I bet you'll be able to vote for asap rocky.

ugh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

are you for real

i cant decide if i'm more offended by 2 votes for mac miller or 1 for lil twist

come to think of it i don't even know who diggy simmons is

lol <3 whoever voted YG

I want mac millers head on a plate

i sorta feel like meek mill could carry some momentum over from the ross singles... esp if he can manage to carve out a radio niche as roughneck east coast rapper in a vast sea of skinny jeans rap.

i hope that in 2012 i'll be able to vote for fat trel

― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:11 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah every time i hear "house party" on the radio i'm like please please please let this song be huge

glad lil b won, everyone else i have any interest in just feels like i'm rooting for them rather than being actually invested in their currently existing output

the whole 'investment' thing about people really feeling like lil b is Important and they're part of a unique new kind of Movement is just

otm re: house party

wish I'd voted Meek at this point tbh

ugh at this

the whole 'investment' thing about people really feeling like lil b is Important and they're part of a unique new kind of Movement is just

― nəverDirty (some dude), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 5:25 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cult artists be culty

that fred da godson deej posted is pretty great

lol @ Cyhi the Prince being the Darko Milicic of this list

http://instagram.com/p/Zj3y69pCNG/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ck1WbsCW0AAGHsK.jpg

weird they wld put e-40 in there p sure hes been around for a while

ha amazing to see kendrick barely beating out yelawolf by one vote

there's a lotta RONG in this thread

tbf most of these rappers' careers and/or music transformed pretty significantly over the past 5 years so hindsight is more illuminating/amusing than anything else

lil b is still def better than kendrick tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH2WjBSSH7U

lil b definitely does it again...and again and again and again and again

there's a lotta RONG in this thread

― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, June 13, 2016 11:10 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah besides Fred the Godson becoming the most important rapper of his generation a lot of these guys have fizzled

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfglWGhVAAE5u-K.jpg

Couldn’t find ten good rappers this year

lol it rules that lil b beat kendrick in this poll

seems like kendrick might end up being the star outta these dudes?

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 9, 2011 7:35 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, when i went to the Gathering of The Juggal0s I got like 5 compliments on my Yelawolf t-shirt.

― rolling in the derp (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 9, 2011 7:37 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Looooool

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 9, 2011 7:35 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was my best DN ever should have stopped there

True

yg meek and kendrick, p good on that first one

and big kri

for better or worse mac miller has also done very well

lil b also has become a legend/meme

yg was robbed

he p much just had teen dance songs out then no

oj da juiceman was robbed again

imagine how wild it would be if this year's class became as influential/acclaimed/culturally relevant as the 2011 class

(if you could call them that, i'm not sure if Lil Twist or Fred the Godson are still around, or who they even are in the first place)

i dont really understand this story

When he was 12 years old, Lil Twist went to a Lil Wayne concert in Tyler, Texas and opened for Lil Wayne. Impressed, Cortez and Wayne flew Lil Twist to Atlanta to see how he was in a recording studio.[9]

diggy can kinda rap

― morb derp (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 5, 2011 10:58 PM

lmao

yg was robbed

― ||||||||, Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:42 AM (yesterday)

this, tho

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfJ5r0lWsAMHlyI?format=jpg&name=large

they played it pretty safe, hard to say there's anyone who doesn't deserve to be there.