Vanessa Satten

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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...