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On the set of Nicki’s first single, “Massive Attack”, she tries to justify to MTV News her snub of XXL’s Freshmen ‘10 list:
“Drake & I, we love XXL. We just shot for XXL. With all due respect, we felt like we kinda had graduated from the freshman class. We felt that XXL missed the mark when they didn’t put us on the cover prior to that. They have to pay for that. They can’t say, ‘Hey, get on the next one.’ But we love XXL. That’s like a hip-hop classic. So we said, ‘Can we have something just a little bit more catered to us, so that we feel like we have still grown as artists, so we’re not at all disrespecting the magazine?’ They were cool with that.”
She’s the biggest female rapper now, absolutely. But let’s be real, she knows deep down she wasn’t buzzing like that in October 2008 when they made 2009’s list.
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