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The 2015 XXL Freshman cover has been unveiled and as you may know, along with the announcement comes a lot more. A major part of our annual list is not only the magazine, but the individual freestyles. The freestyles are a huge part of the phenomenon, as it gives each of our selections a chance to show off their raw talent...

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Fresh off of debuting his Luci Brasi 2 mixtape, Kevin Gates is eager to give fans more material to kick off the new year. Gates clearly lives up to his "I Don't Get Tired" motto, because he successfully released not one, but two freestyles via his Twitter account in less than 24 hours. The...

As the BET Cyphers last week proved, there's something special about watching a rapper just spit. Though the cyphers only come once a year, there are still places out there that force rappers to deliver verses over a beat in a live setting...

Snow Tha Product is wrapping up the Fight to Unite Tour with Kottonmouth Kings, Dizzy Wright, Deuce and Eskimo Callboy with dates in Vegas, Santa Ana and wrapping up at The Troubador in Hollywood on Cinco de Mayo. She stopped by SiriusXM Shade45 Sway in the Morning show and dropped a minute-long freestyle where she talked about her rising success, why she's in the game and goes in on some serious

Angel Haze is the XXL Freshman of the Day. Hit up her >>  Freshman bio page << for her freestyle, behind-the-scenes XXL cover shoot and a few of her other tracks like 'New York" and "Werkin' Girls." Like XXL on Facebook to find out immediately when each freestyle and cypher drops 

Big man Action Bronson out of Flushing, Queens is the XXL Freshman of the Day. Hit up his &gt;&gt;  Freshman bio page &lt;&lt; for his freestyle which might make you hungry and jonesing - smoke effects were provided by Mr. Bronson. You can also chec...

Funk Volume rapper reppin' Vegas and People's Champ Dizzy Wright is the XXL Freshman of the Day. Hit up his &gt;&gt;  Freshman bio page &lt;&lt;  and see why he won the 10 Spot popular vote to be the XXL Freshman People's Champ. Dizzy got rhymes. You ...

Houston rapper Kirko Bangz is the XXL Freshman of the Day. Hit up his &gt;&gt;  Freshman bio page &lt;&lt;  to watch his XXL Freshman freestyle and see why dude got well over 100 million hits on Youtube. Plus there's a bonus Colin Kaepernick reference. There's also behind-th...

As we show off freestyles from the 2013 XXL Freshman Class, we take a look book at some more classic freestyles form previous classes. Last week, we rereleased freestyles from Kid Cudi, Curren$y, Ace Hood, Asher Roth, Cory Gunz, Blu, Charles Hamilton, Mickey Factz, B...

Pitbull wasted no time hopping on Jay-Z's Swizz Beatz produced, "Open Letter" and adding some Cuban flavor. We're sure this wont be the last time the pen is passed.