XXL is the print media arm of Universal.

watts up universal WAKE UP LUCIFER276 IS COMING LUCIFER IS COMIN..VIP RECORDS CALIFORNIA.

[...] XXL: As one of the game’s most influential artists, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has the honor of [...]

YOU GUYS CAN’T STOP KISSING 50′S ASS. THIS IS SO SAD. YOU’RE LOOSING ANY CREDIBILITY YOU HAVE. ALLHIPHOP HAS MORE CREDIBILITY THAN YOU. MAN HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN.

[...] Courtesy of Anslem. As one of the game’s most influential artists, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has the honor of holding down not one but two separate covers of XXL’s special year-end double issue. In the December/January cover story, the G-Unit CEO breaks bread with XXL to talk about his new album Before I Self Destruct, his big year on the Web with his site thisis50.com, his role in hip-hop and much more. Also included is a 10-year anniversary tribute to the making of the record that first brought 50 to the public, “How to Rob.” [...]

[...] via XXL [...]

@lesotho eat a dick hater

I guess now we know why Bol’s blog about the leak of BISD got pulled from the site…

Doesn’t matter, already downloaded it and its alright, not his best, but not his worst…

Still I look at 50 like Ja back in 03, his time has come and passed as an artist, hope he continues to invest wisely in other areas

“I guess now we know why Bol’s blog about the leak of BISD got pulled from the site…”

I called it.

[...] XXL’s December/January double issue hits newsstands on December 1. [...]

o well bisd may not be no grodt but its still good enough to listen to better than other shit out their right now better than fat joes and triple c’s new shit

IT’S OFFICIAL NOW YOU GUYS HAVE OFFICIALLY LOST IT. I USED TO LIKE 50 CENT & I STILL BUY HIS CD’S & MIXTAPES BUT ANOTHER DAMN COVER?!?! I UNDERSTAND HE HAS ANOTHER CD COMING OUT, BUT YOU GUYS HAVE PUT HIM ON COVER’S WHEN HE WASN’T DOING ISH!! HE HAS AS MANY COVERS AS JAY WITH ALMOST LESS THAN 1/3rd AS MANY ALBUMS(11-4). I WAS A BIG FAN OF XXL ESPECIALLY WHEN THE SOURCE (BENZINO) WAS RUNNING IT, BUT NOW THIS ISH ISN’T EVEN FUNNY!

PEACE & GET MONEY!!!
MOGUL $$$ GAME ‘09!!

[...] XXL’s December/January double issue hits newsstands on December 1. [...]

Really…two cover…??? I know he has an album coming out and is hot right now…I know XXL is proud of the fact that they had Fif’s back from day one…but don’t you think two covers is a little excessive. Do you expect your circulation to increase that much, because you shot two covers???

[...] XXL [...]

“XXL is the print media arm of Universal.”

True that. Yeah you called it sealsaa.

2 covers? Wow…

I mean, Who else is really relevant enough to but on the cover besides him? No one else in the rap world is making as much noise as him. As much as some hate to say it. As much as the 50 or so people that comment on here hate it, there are thousands that love it and will go buy the magazine. Loyal fans will go buy 50 toilet paper if he pitched it. XXL is smart. Hell I would but him on there over ANYBODY at this time. Someone name a more talked about project that is coming out in the next couple months? There are none. XXL is capitalizing just like 50 is.

[...] XXL’s December/January double issue hits newsstands on December 1. [...]

Lesotho, no ass kissing is going down on 50.

I predict he will NOT get 50+ pages of material like JAY-Z got (it was something crazy like 40-45% of the mag) for his album, and 50’s albums always do even better than Jay-Z. If you count the 1-20 pages of Rocawear ads, the 10-20 of reviews of his old albums and his new, and the reviews, etc Jay-Z got the most pages dedicated to him than I have seen in ANY XXL issue.

Now if 50 wasn’t relevant, wasn’t popular, didn’t sell, or had no talent, than somebody somewhere could have an issue. I’d rather point out some of the covers where they just put OJ Juiceman and other Southern no sales bitch boys who had no place on there. Even in the issue with the up and coming artists about half or 2/3rds were o.k. with some that didn’t even belong. I think it’s o.k. to put the #1 or 2 top sales giant of the decade on a cover if it’s been a year and a half or two since he’s been on. Jburg is right. You guys wouldn’t be crying if you were as lame as the “sauce” right now putting “Young money” on the cover. “WHAT THE F have they done” other than a slaughterhouse review and one decnt interview that last Source mag was 100 pages of trash. XXL doesn’t ever stoop to that point.
Even though I didn’t like 50 pages of Jay-Z I felt having a cover in itself was NEWSWORTHY and RELEVANT.

Let’s just hope that 20 pages on Fif is enough and the rest of the usually great double issue covers all the cool things we like to see… Like best albums, slept on albums, sales achievements, etc..

More than 2 years that i don’t buy your mag anymore, & it’s still the same artist on the cover…!!
It’s one of the reason, that i don’t buy it…
You always talk about the same artist…

Jay-z/50cent/Game & co…

Come on, step your game up…

@ Nate

Come on man, 2 covers? 50 cents relevance in the game now is about destroying alliances. I didn’t know that hip hop’s measure of relevance has come to that. Look at the history of XXL with 50. its nothing but subjective support. 50 can’t do no wrong with them. 50’s glory days have gone and now he is milking a dead cow. Its sad that hip hop has to to a stage where there are no better rappers to put on 2 covers than a recycled 50. Yesterday XXL even had a song review where they called Rick Ross ‘officer ricky”. i’m not a ross fan per se but come on man! XXL has lost it. Nothing can ever justify that. Can a magazine stoop that low and still call itself objective? What is the difference between what XXL did and what Benzino did with the Source? Do you really think that XXL would ever be critical of 50 or call him any disparaging names? NEVER. XXL SHOULD START CALLING ITSELF “THIS IS 5O MAG”.

Should have had 50 on one cover, Game on the other cover. Coz Game got a new album out in December. Get some competition goin

two covers it seems fishy woops i mean fifty has a sweet marketing push. stoked for the mac dre article

I THINK 50 CENT IS GREAT HE LEFT BEHIND FOR HIP HOP AND HARD CORE GANGSTA SHIT RAP.. I JUST DOWNLOADED THE NEW 50 CENT B4ISD CD AND HONESTLY THERE IS A COUPLE OF TRACKS ON THERE THAT ARE GOOD! BUT ITS NO MASSACARE, ITS NO CURTIS, ITS NO GET RITCH OR DIE TRYING!

IM A ONE OF 50′S BIGGEST FANS TO BOOT! 50 HAS HAD HIS TIME! I MEAN FOR REALS YALL WHEN YOU HERE THIS NEW CD ITS A HUGE DISSAPOINTMENT! HES JUST HAD A GOOD RUN! BY ANY MEANS GET YOUR MONEY FIF! BUT THIS CD DID NNOTHING FOR MY SOUL………………..

[...] December/January double issue hits newsstands on December 1! (XXLMag)     [...]

Yo,

we all hear the same type of music erryday man… i thought Jay-Z would give us something diff but honestly nigga eating off the same plate as Gucci… DNT PANIC JAY-Z STANS let me finish… i’m not from America but as an African our opinion of black people in america has always been shaped by the music and the stories y’all tell through it. back then (biggie and pac) we understood that blacks were oppressed, racism was rife and it was all about survival. Nowadays it’s all about who’s got the smoothest white man’s brand of clothing. the harder it is to pronounce a a fashion label the better it is, you gotta cop that ish. WTF is a Loui Vuitton Don, fuck outta here man. you mean to tell me nobody is still selling drugs anymore? nobody is still in a gang just for survival in the hood? nobody walks around with a 9?

thank god for 50s BISD… it’s just another perspective of hip hop that has been concealed for the last couple of years. your government buys this lollipop music so u can sell millions and stop making music about the real lives most black people are living. trust.

XXL= DICKriders!

lol. how many times have fif been on ya cover already? yall lunchin’!

not really a fan but i gotta keep it real and say gucci mane deserved a cover.

he’s got a huge presence right now and an interesting story to tell including a murder, multiple jail stints, possible rehab of some sort, beef with old label associates, friction with young jeezy, and a very recent rise to stardom.

XXL just dick rides whoever is the hottest MC out
It’s business and marketing sense to do that

They don’t really give a fuck about Fif or Jay just goes with them becuz of their relevance and commercialsm
Just like the media with MJ

dickride him in his prime (1980’s)
assualt him (1990-200)
dickride his death (2009)

Why?

All for the sake of $$$$$$$$$!!!!!

[...] Young Kingz Daily For whatever reason, I forgot to post the second cover. Via XXL The Young Kingz Daily [...]

[...] 50 Cent is featured on the cover of the December 2009/January 2010 double issue of XXL Magazine, set to hit stands December 1st. In the December/January cover story, the G-Unit CEO breaks bread [...]

[...] 50 Cent Graces the Cover of XXL’s Dec/Jan Year-End Double Issue As one of the game’s most influential artists, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has the honor of h [...]

This is NOT what HipHop needs right now. An Artist on the Cover, sorounded by Money - Period ! I like XXL, but in this time we have right now, this is not good at All !

YO LOUIE BOY: I LOVE ME SOME FIFTY BOY!!!
BUT MAYBE IM EXPECTING TO MUCH? ITS JUST LIKE DAMM WHEN I HEAR SOME SHIT LIKE “IM GOING TO DIE TONIGHT” WHEN I HEAR “POSITION OF POWER”

WHEN I HERE “GET TO KNOW ME WITH GAME”
WHEN I HERE “GAT MAN WITH EM” WHEN I HERE “MANY MEN” YOU KNOW WHATS UP BOI!

MAY BE IT NEEDS TO GROW ON ME BUT DAMM DAWG A HAD TO FAST FORWARD TO MUCH SHIT ON THAT RECORD! “STRECTH IS HOT” AND SOME OTHERS BUT IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE IVE BEEN DISAPOINTED, WHO AM I TO BE DISAPOINTED? JUST ANOTHER DUDE THAT BREATHS EATS AND SLEEPS WORTHY RAP RECORDS!

50 IS STILL ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITS! AND ONE WEAK RECORD WONT EVER TAKE MY LOYALTY TO FIF!! BUT THATS JUST MY OPINION!!

ONE HUNDREAD!!!

I’m Sean Felder IBO of Amway Global and is interested if your staff wanna advertise my XS energy drinks for your hiphop fans to take notice,if you want me to mail you samples to see if you like the product,let me know ok?Happy Holidays and keep up the good work.

[...] 50 Cent Graces the Cover of XXL’s Dec/Jan Year-End Double Issue As one of the game’s most influential artists, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has the honor of h [...]

[...] the incessant 50 Cent coverage that’s dominated the Internet over the last month, there’s curiously been little mention of his [...]