Vanessa Satten

Read Cardi B's cover story in XXL magazine's spring 2021 issue.

Over the past two years, DaBaby has dominated hip-hop and he’s nowhere near done. Read his exclusive XXL magazine Winter 2020 cover story.

Future chops it up with XXL for the Spring issue.

Travis Scott covers the Winter 2019 issue of XXL, and he writes his own story, too.

After helping to make Juice Wrld a star, Lil Bibby is doing it big.

He encourages love and positivity while practicing the words he preaches. Lil B has found his spot as an icon to hip-hop’s younger generations.

Editor-in-Chief,Vanessa Satten talks about DJ Khaled's positivity in the upcoming issue of XXL Magazine.

Future has turned himself into hip-hop's latest superstar. Read XXL's full Fall 2015 cover story right here.

XXL Editor-In-Chief Vanessa Satten speaks on Future being on the cover of our Fall 2015 issue.

What's Goin' On The Big Apple's latest rap hopeful Bobby Shmurda speaks from the pen. Words Vanessa Satten Images Phil Knott Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of XXL Magazine featuring our 2015 XXL Freshman Class...

Freshman issue. It's finally here. And it took even longer than ever to put out. We are actually about two to three weeks later than usual with the release of the cover, but things switched up a little with our schedule in 2015 so we were stuck coming out later than usual...

It’s been a while since we have had Rick Ross and Meek Mill on the cover; about three and a half years. There hasn’t been any particular reason, it just hasn’t worked out. So when the opportunity popped up for this issue, it was a no-brainer...