The Downfall of XXL Freshman List 

You didn't even mention how awful the beats they choose can be. I'll always love that X just made em turn the thing off wholesale. Great video though bro

It’s too political now. Whether they need to put a certain amount of girls, an lgbtq artist, and an artist from each of the top hip hop cities. Labels also are pretty much buying spots for their artists. No longer is it about the leaders of the new wave

I like the album solution

I can’t believe no one has commented on this master piece you would think while you are watching it that it’s made by someone with 100 k subscribers or more but it isn’t it’s made by a underrated RU-vidr who is about to blow up. Fire video really enjoyed it 👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥

2016 XXL Freshman will be remembered because it's so legendary.

Bro ur suggestion on a year a xxl tape is dope bro

1 . big artist declining the list 2 . constantly trying to be "diverse" no matter how pathetic it seems. 3. Constantly picking unknown mfs to be on the list 4. Letting allegations or legal situations keep people off the list 5. Poor management of the list and trying to recreate 2016 . I feel like these are all the things that ruined the list.

I definitely think A decrease in quality is a contributing factor but not a main factor. Current TRAP is kids music at this point. I don't know a single grown ass man that's bumpin Uzi, Carti, Trippie, Opium, Faygo, Travis, Yeat etc. Trap is the new Kidz Bop, I mostly see kids listening to Trap. The shift in Hiphop's culture and sound is the main reason I think XL fails. The youth do not know what XXL is and don't care what it is from what I've experienced. Grown ass people don't care about the latest 17,18, 19 year old kid rappers. They need to shift their marketing more towards teens imo

They should do a xxl senior list for the vets in raps

This video crazy fam love the production behind it editing was a1

I notice this also reflected on the popularity of rap. 2016-2018 was the peak of rap & the peak of Soundcloud Rap era. Also you saw so many new well known faces in rap at the time.

i honestly think it was caused by the current artists declining in talent

factssss. everything you said was on point bro great video!

Fire bro 🔥🔥💔

To be honest I thought the only solid cypher in years was BabyTron. No beat, his voice and cadence made the flow.

This is basically a roundabout way of saying these modern “rappers” are garbage and get by having zero skills but rather “personalities”. The record industry realizes long ago that hip hop is easy to make so just get people to accept trash and it’s muuuch easier to make $$ than actually having to find quality. The fact that you said trash like Lil Pump had “bangers” (lol) highlights this well.

2016 PEAK

My one issue with these “xxl has declined” discussions is that people start at 2016, WHEN 2015 was way better. I think the decline started with 2016 😊

They don’t even freestyle on beats anymore. Hell they don’t even freestyle either

Having xxl make an album and music videos is an excellent idea

Lol no the pitches literally don't matter. It was confirmed by lil skies in 2018 that the list is already picked out before the pitches even come out-sans the 10th spot. That's all the pitches control. They're literally just so XXL can get more traffic to their website.

it just sucks they dont try to promote artists that care about the craft anymore.

6:02 every rapper should be able to freestyle. I tell everybody gets in the wrap the freestyle with the Homies.

Juice faria um estrago se pulasse na XXL, ele era o melhor no freestyle da sua geração! 👺🇧🇷

An XXL album is such a good idea and idk why they didn't do that in the first place

Haven’t cared about xxl since like 2018

At first I was like... Wtf is this kid talking about... Then after you bought up the different strategies I was like... Oh nah that's a great idea

The last good onenwasb2020. Literally know like 2 people every year since

Bro found the solution

Morray carried 2021

Since Kendrick’s yr it has completely sucked

Xxl been trash it leader 2011-2016

Yup Chef again! 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽👨‍🍳

dont say its not because the quality of the music has gone down, it clearly has degraded year over year just a bunch of autotune and shit lyrics pushed by massive labels.