Lil Herb recently dropped a new song entitled "XXL." On the track, he calls out the hip-hop magazine for leaving him off of the 2015 Freshman class list.
The song kicks off with a message from Lil Durk, who insists G Herbo deserves to be on the XXL cover. Herb follows up, going for the kill with, "I'm like the under overdog/Y'all commercial and marketable but I'm over y'all."
Take a listen to Lil Herb address the situation below. His long-awaited Balling Like I'm Kobe mixtape is slated to drop this year.
XXL editor-in-chief Vanessa Satten stopped by the Breakfast Club to break down the Freshman cover selection process.
"October, November we start," Satten said. "We go for months. It's exhausting. I mean there's harder jobs out there, definitely in the world. But we sit with artists over and over and over again. We go to shows. We travel out of town to go to shows. I think we sat with 75 different artists. They come to the office. We'll sit with them multiple times as we narrow it down. We talk to you guys. We talk to anyone that we come across in the industry. We talk to little brothers and little sisters and nephews and pretty much everyone. And then we start arguing and narrowing it down in different long, long meetings...We never do your next door neighbor. We never do your boy...There's definitely some good ones out there. There's hits and misses."
As previously reported, this year's cover features Tink, Fetty Wap, Vince Staples, Dej Loaf, OG Maco, Raury, K Camp, Shy Glizzy, GoldLink and Kidd Kidd.
XXL began its annual "Freshman Class" tradition during 2007.
This year's entire class is slated to play a big show together in NYC on June 30 at the Best Buy Theater. Tickets are on sale now.
