ScHoolboy Q and the rest of the Black Hippy crew chopped it up with Beats TV about a gang of topics including their shared fan bases and wanting to attain the same level of success as Maybach Music Group and Young Money. But during the conversation, Q turned his attention to his exclusion from this year’s XXL Magazine Freshman cover, which featured Machine Gun Kelly, French Montana, Hopsin, Iggy Azalea and more. Q says that he’s got love for the magazine, but that he is far too advance to even be featured on a Freshman cover.
“Ain’t no shot, but ain’t none of them niggas sold more records than me,” he said. “I don’t feel like I’m a freshman, on some real shit. Jay Rock did it, Kendrick did it and it’s cool. That was good. It’s just kind of corny for me to do it. I love XXL, I look at that shit all the time. But I would love to see a Black Hippy cover.”
Watch the full interview below.

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i bet machine gun kelly would sell more than he did
bet u would whiteboy
hopsin last album RAW has sold 238,991 in the us alone why is he in the freshman list
^ hahahahah no it hasn’t
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Yet another rapper who didn’t get invited to be on the XXL cover claiming he turned it down. Shaaaaaat the faaaack aaaap.
too many wack rappers.
i dig schoolboy q. if he did turn the cover down that was a lame excuse he gave though. i thought that the line up was horrible. i can t really speak for the most of them cuz honestly there were a few that i hadn t even heard of until the cover came out. roscoe dash didn t belong because i wouldn t consider him a freshman but i wouldn t consider french montana one either. but if these 2 guys could be considered even though 2 chainz was in playaz circle and they released 2 albums, i feel like he re – invented himself and established himself as one of the hottest in the game right now. i feel he belonged in mtv s top 10 hottest in the game. he hasn t dropped his first solo yet so u could consider him a freshman solo artist. same could ve been said for pusha t and juicy j if roscoe dash was nominated. asap rocky, schoolboy q, dom kennedy, chip the ripper, stalley and smoke dza should ve made the cover no doubt. i don t even know where they found half of those cats from who graced the cover. i checked out some of their music afterwards and i think that xxl needs to check into getting some new staff members who keep their ear to the street and have a overall view on who s who and what s what. that cover was trash i must say.
Black Hippy on the cover would be the shit
hes sold more bc most of them havent put anything out yet, what an idiot
i fucks with this guys music but how many records has he really sold? its probably under 50k
He’s sold something like 5,000 albums. That’s far from cover worthy.
It would have been embarrassing to be featured on that cover. That was the worst bunch I have ever seen. Q is right, it’s “corny” as hell because its just a publicity stunt for gimmick rappers to get noticed now.
Its not about the music its about the image for XXL and Q doesn’t have the proper image. They would want “Michael Jordan” Q on the cover but he would want “Sacrilegious” or “Blessed” Q on the cover. He’s not gonna go do a cover shoot for a magazine that doesn’t see him for who he truly is; a seasoned west coast rapper who is hard as hell but also has a soft regretful side to him.
Kendrick and Jay Rock got on the cover because they had hype and people were starting to bump them. They got on when XXL was serious about their music. Lil B was the downfall of that XXL’s serious covers because now we got a bunch of no talent clowns that have garnered hype, while true wordsmiths are left off but at least can still keep their dignity at this point.
Q and AB-Soul are great rappers regardless of being recognized by a bunch of goons in the XXL offices.
dont make sense Lil B and Kendrick was on the same cover. And Lil B is better than half this cover.
Action Bronson is better than schoolboy Q and the rest of them niggas that was on that cover!!
action bronson is dope but he sticks to the same formula. weed reference , food reference, 80s wrestling / baseball reference, blowjob reference. wash, rinse, repeat. get at me when he writes a song like “blessed” or “sacriligeous”. real talk.
Who on that freshman’s list is not gonna repeat that same process. I know that broad is definitely.
Action Bronson isn’t half the MC Schoolboy Q is.
The past several XXl freshman have been really good actually (Kendrick Lamar,BIG Krit,Freddie Gibbs,Yelawolf) but man this version was garbage.
Only guy on that list that has any talent is Danny Brown and Macklemore.
Not to mention French Montana has been a known rapper for several years now
French’s hype has been dead for years, only until recently have people paid attention to him again (“Shot Caller”), probably why he ain’t on the list.
Maybe to you internet nerds. French Montana’s hype been up. Tri state area been fucking with him. Sad thing is these days my comments gonna be looked at negatively cause im saying the hood fucks with him.
Oh well. what can u do when its mostly nerds and suburban dudes that comment on here and criticize on this site.
RIP XXL Freshmen lists
Used to be a great opportunity, now it’s a press op clusterfuck that they have to explain every year.
I agree! That and the MTV’s, the Rolling Stone magazines shit trying to touch the culture and dictate what’s hot! Man, I remember when The Source was the official Bible of hip hop in the 90’s. Carson Daly’s night show got more credential than all this bullshit on nowadays. And i find the dude corny and a poser!
HOW THE FUCK THIS COCK SUCKER SOLD MORE RECORDS THAN ROSCOE??? NO HANDS, MARVIN GAYE,
No Hands is Waka Flaka’s song, and Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay is Big Sean’s song. Get ur facts straight dude. Roscoe Dash is like the new Nate Dogg (no disrespect to Nate Dogg), only good on hooks. Q got SONGS
Nate Dog? … Nate Dog?!!! No. He’s more like the spawn of soulja boy and akon. Nate Dog?!!
Roscoe is a talented motherfucker, but dude hasn’t moved units cause Jive Records pulled bullshit on him and then went under. Schoolboy Q has moved more units than any of those guys, and frankly has more potential as a great artist than those guys. For Kendrick, it made sense cause he really hadn’t released an album before the cover, plus i think Kendrick has broader appeal, if that makes sense.
Whats up with all these rappers hatting on other rappers that got noticed? That shit just looks weak man, not saying anything about Q but com’on son
I’d say he’s well under 50k, idiot.
LOL! Ab Soul like the pookie of the group…
1. the 2012 xxl freshmen just looks like they were just thrown together at the last minute.
2. some of the members of odd future & jet life should have definitely been on there.
3. they forgot lola monroe, paris & honey cocaine
4. future? really??
5. is it me or does it seem like no one cares about ab soul, like it’s all about jay, q & kdot.
6. Hopsin should have been on it years ago
I agree with Schoolboy Q and ASAP Rocky. The XXL Freshman list is always wack. Last year, Rocky and Schoolboy made an impact. So did Tyler the Creator and the rest of OFWGKTA. But did you see them on the cover? The only honorable thing that XXL did was recognizing Macklemore.
if he was on it he would be the best rapper on the list easily
funny how asap rocky dissed the freshman list too and his gf iggy azelea is on it
ahaha ‘It’s called MAYBACH MUSIC, we walked here’