EYE CANDY

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Eye Candy of the Year: Popular Demand

Photography by Ellen Stagg This is history in the making. Never has the Eye Candy of the Year competition been so thick and gooey that XXL was forced to hand out co-crowns. But such is the case this year, as Latinas Tammy Torres and Rosa Acosta annihilated the video-vixen scene with volume. While Ms. Torres spent 2009 upgrading the singles for rappers like Fabolous (“Everything, Everyday, Everywhere”) and Birdman (“Money to Blow”), Ms. Acosta provided the same service for more-easy listeners, like Mario (“Break Up”) and Drake (“Best I Ever Had” and “Forever”). Both, though, could be capping off the year ...

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