XXL Reveal 2026 Freshman Class

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  • it keeps getting worse every year

  • Terrible list

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    Think this is genuinely the first class where I don’t recognize 1 name lol

  • No Ben Reilly is kinda crazy tbh

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    i literally dont know a single artist on this cover. idk if i gotta expand my horizons or if the "new artist hype" has genuinely fallen off lol

  • Niggas be like "Kendrick Drake and Cole are keeping us from enjoying new acts" and it be these niggas lol

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    cool wit being out of touch at this point

  • Mr Carter

    cool wit being out of touch at this point

    I can at the very least vouce for La Reezy and Chris Patrick. They're solid and worth checking out.

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    I think slayr is above this but I can see why he did it since his idols did it 10 years ago

  • Who the f***

  • eversince

    I think slayr is above this but I can see why he did it since his idols did it 10 years ago

    Dude isnt even half as poppin as anyone from the 2015-2020 class

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    i 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 - 1.5m

  • BRUNTZ 🖤
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    lmao just discontinue this s*** already

  • Skrilla

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    whatever label sosocamo is on really, really, badly wants him to happen

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    ICEMAN KIR

    i never herd of "miles minnick" turns out this is some christian rapper

    A lot of the religious “reformed” thots in the bay luv him…

    Got girls walking the blade in lingerie playing him on speaker out here

  • nevalost

    Miles Minnick & YKNiece gotta be people they just found freestyling at the park

    Ykniece funny enough has the biggest song on here. She’s on “take me thru dere”

  • Elemental

    Think this is genuinely the first class where I don’t recognize 1 name lol

    I can't tell if I recognize them. Some really generic names in here

  • Still not ass bad as that freshman list yall dorks was hyping full of senior rappers still called freshman

  • serenade

    i 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 - 1.5m

    What else do they have going for them?

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    Smacked Voodoo

    No Ben Reilly is kinda crazy tbh

    He did the One The Radar thing. Those are their ops

  • Hip Hop is not dead. XXL is just doing a terrible job picking rappers for this s***. That being said the talent pool for this s*** is definitely smaller.

  • notbrock

    Another year of people who won’t even be around this time next year despite being told by 30 year olds online this is who the kids are playing

    Something is not clicking with the youth. Or maybe this XXL list is just an aged-out list that was only hyped up by hip-hop hype beasts or bandwagoners from 2014-2019. Then post covid that same audience moved on from hip-hop. Who's consuming XXL anymore?

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