The Breakfast Club - XXL Freshman Cover Revealed

Episode Date: June 29, 2015

Vanessa Satten and Miranda J. from XXL magazine stop through to discuss their freshman cover. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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listen to 10. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now we have our family, our friends from XXL Magazine. Word, son. Vanessa and Miranda. Good morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning.

It's about that time of year, Vanessa. Yes, it is. Thank God, because I'm exhausted. Freshman 10. The requests, yes. The freshman is here. The freshman is out. The freshman is here. Everyone, is out. The freshman is here.

Everyone shut up. How exhausting is this process, and how long does it take? When do y'all start the process? October, November we start. We go for months. It's exhausting. I mean, there's harder jobs out there definitely in the world, but we sit with artists over and over and over again.

We go to shows. We travel out of town to go to shows. I think we sat with 75-something different artists. 75? Yeah, they come to the office. We'll sit with them multiple times. As we narrow it down, we talk to you guys. We talk to anyone that we come across in the industry.

We talk to little brothers and little sisters and nephews and pretty much everyone, and then we start arguing it down in different long, long meetings. When you say 75 artists, are these people that actually have things going or just the guys standing outside with their CDs? No, we never do your next-door neighbor. We never do your boy. We never do the guy who's standing in the CDs.

That's the people who legitimately could potentially make it. Yes. Now, sometimes it's early on some of them. Sometimes they're artists of people that we know, other artists, and they want to get their artists in there. And we know it's a little bit early, but we don't say no to that. And you never know what's going to happen because we're always looking at next year. Gotcha.

But, you know, the whole thing changes, and especially the industry and the way that everything works now. Let's talk about this covering. No, wait, wait, wait. Before we get to the cover. Yeah, hold on. Let's talk about the shooting percentage. Y'all got a pretty good shooting percentage when it comes to picking covers.

Very good. Hopefully. I mean, you've had Kendrick, you've had J. Cole, you've had Wale, you've had Meek Mill, you've had French Montana. People that we didn't even think was going to happen, like Macklemore, Iggy Azalea. You've been pretty good at picking people. Hey, little Vic Mensa looks good right now, too. Vic Mensa looks good, yeah.

So, yeah, there's definitely going to be some good ones out there. You have hits and misses. You're trying to predict the future. You're trying to take 10 new artists and put them on the cover, and I don't know how 10 is always going to work and blow up. But it's fun. The idea is to put different people on. We can go do the same people over and over again,

but this gives people something to talk about. This gives people something to look at. It's exciting to see them grow. When people don't make it, do you have to call them and be like, so sorry? People who don't make it, it's getting more difficult every year. Every year, they're acting now like you're taking food out of their kid's mouth. They're getting a little bit more disgruntled. And we don't call you up and say, hey, by the way, you didn't make it.

They wind up finding out because they hear that the shoot happened or something. So they know already. If they weren't in the shoot, they know they're not on the cover. By this point, you know, I mean, they all start hearing a little bit or, you know,

then you have to start watching out because the shoot happened and you don't want to say, well, you know, the shoot happened and you're having these conversations and you're trying to keep, you know,

everything in the bag so you don't want to let them know stuff happened but at the same time. So it gets very, very political more than ever with the turndown,

which isn't even a turndown. It's just a non-follow-up. Don't you got to tell them, like, yo, get hot. Get hot. It does on the cover. And the reality is some people are hot. It's just we don't know how much that's going to last. Because for Freshman, we're looking at the longevity of it.

So sometimes right now, we don't believe for the future based on the music we heard. You know, we're based on your situation, how you're assigned. Sometimes people are in some jack deals that the manager's never going to let them move. Right. You know that, yo, you're dope and everybody knows that publicly, but your paperwork's so screwed it's not going to get anywhere. Or they've got such a lineup of a roster that they come behind. You know, the other people that are signed,

you know it's another year or so before they're going to get hot. Or, you know, it's one song. I mean, we're in a situation right now, it's very one-hit wonder. You know, you get one song and you blow the hell up, and then we have to sit there and be like, so what's the chance there's a second? And that could lead you right into Fetty Wap. Now let's talk about the cover,

because you guys do have two females on the cover. People were debating, is there going to be a female at all? Who should it be? The cover is supposed to be a reflection of what's going on in hip-hop right now. I think that we saw R&B last year, because R&B was a little bit more heavy. We didn't have as many pitchers or as many artists that were as actively in the conversation with R&B. More with females this year, which was great to see. We didn't really want to be forced to pick between Dej and Tink. You don't really have to.

We're treating them all as valid artists, not as female artists, not as white artists, not as black artists, as valid artists based on the same credentials for the solo album and all that. So we went back and forth. It was like, this is a reflection of what's going on. They like Dej. They like Tink.

We believe in both of these artists. They're just another two artists. They are females, but they're just another two artists. You just revealed Dej Loaf and Tink are on the freshman cover. XXL freshman cover. Oh, yeah. Yes, you are. Who else is on the cover?

You have it sitting right in front of you. I don't have it in front of me. Oh, they took it? Oh. I'm so confused. Yes, Deslo Tink is on the cover. Deslo for Tink. Salute to both of them.

Fetty Wap, K-Camp, Shy Glizzy. Who's that? Fetty Wap? Yeah, Fetty Wap. Yeah, Rory, Shy Glizzy, Gold Link. I really like Rory, by the way. OG Macca. Rory's a cool kid. K-Camp, Kid Kid, Vince Staples.

I don't know if we're repeating that. No, it feels like K-Camp is a little late. Yeah, K-Camp, Kid Kid, Vince Staples, and I don't know if we're repeating that. I feel like K-Camp is a little late. And K-Kid's been around for a long time as well. He's about a sophomore. Cool, but his solo album comes out in the summer, so he's technically not a sophomore. I mean, if he disappeared today, the catalog's not as extensive, but once

you drop that solo album, that's where you get the people write-up chance. You know what I mean? That's what's looked at as your big debut. So he hasn't had that. He's built up. But Interscope's holding, ready to pull the trigger on him for the rollout. And they went hard for a freshman look for him. But all the other guys had a few hit records there.

And you can't deny a few hits. I feel like that was a big argument in the XXL. K-Camp was a big argument. Because much respect to K-Camp, not as recognizable. You know, it walks into a club, you don't get the same feeling that you recognize him like that. But you can't deny the hits. And what people kept on saying to us over and over, which, you know, like a Todd Moskowitz, like people we respect in the industry, Kevin Lyles would be like,

you can't deny what people have hit records. You know, and so we had to keep coming back to K-Camp on that. And you're like, well, the kid knows how to make hit records. And he's got a building behind him with Interscope that's ready to go. You've got to acknowledge that setup from some of the other ones who are hot, but you know don't have a next place to move because of whatever their situation is. Are all these artists signed? They made it on the cover this year?

No, Gold Link's not signed. I don't think Shy Glizzy's got a major label deal. He's got a bigger management. I think't think Shy Glizzy's got a major label deal. He's got a bigger management. I think Glizzy does. He's got a distribution. He's got distribution and all, but I don't really know what the actual label deal is. They got a machine behind them somehow, some way. There's a machine behind everything, you know?

What about Rory? I don't think Rory signed. Rory signed, yeah. I want to say Columbia, but I don't want to get in trouble and get it wrong, but maybe I did. Yeah. No, Gold Link, Mako just signed. You know, he's been Coach K quality control, and they just got a deal. Was that Capital?

Capital, yeah. I don't want to offend anybody. Dej's got a deal. Tink, you know what's up with Tink. I'm a Timberland. So, yes, you know, I mean, Kid Kidd's through G in it, but that's not a major, you know. That's their own thing. So, there's, and I'm sure there's stuff in the works on every angle with everybody.

But yeah. I wonder what this cover does to cause problems in the future, because say you, you know, didn't put somebody on as a freshman, then they blow up and then you ask them to do something later and they're like, nah, I'm cool. Yeah, no, I mean, definitely. But also, you know, let's talk, we're talking about rappers. Rappers like to see their faces on the cover of magazines. Like, I'm not going to turn down a cover Because I didn't get you know

We're still on newsstands you know Not to say hey we're still on newsstands But that counts for something So they want to see themselves there And let's keep it real there's artists who have turned it down Because they thought they were too big To be on the freshman cover That's the whole thing

Anybody turn it down this year Nobody turned it down this year Some funny responses from them. Not funny. I don't want to be weird, but not such responsive responses from the Party Next Door and McCone and Camp. You know, that they didn't seem so interested in the feedback that we got. So we didn't.

How would y'all want McCone on the cover? McCone's had some. Party Next Door, I can see. But McCone, no. That's the biggest feedback we got of the not interested and that was a little bit hazy too. McConaughey did that, right? But they're in their movement

so much and they've got Drake. Remember A$AP Rocky did that interview and he said that McConaughey gave him some LSD and then he looked at him and he looked like a Buddha with a jerry curl?

That's so accurate. Round of applause to A$AP Rocky for that accurate description of that fat Scooby-Doo sounding boy, A. McConaughey. Now, has anybody in the past that you guys missed off the freshman cover

that you said, damn, they should have made the cover? Yeah, what's the biggest miss? I would say Drake. Yeah. I mean, Drake is, the problem with the Drake thing is that he blew up through the middle of the year. So when you come up with the cover and then all of a sudden this guy comes out a few months after whatever cover you have

and blows up off of Lil Wayne's third album to go in on tour with him. I'll never forget when we were picking freshmen. Drake was not even in the conversation. And then I remember we get over to to do this with another DJ. And they've mentioned to us something of the no. Somebody called in from Toronto and was like, what about Drake? And we were like, wasn't really part of the conversation. And a few months later, that all kind of took over. So you have

that problem of there's only so much time you can get something done in a year. The timing of you're shooting it, you're making it. This is not just about digital. We're physically creating something, going to print with it, you know, proofreading it, copy editing it, shooting it and everything. So you've got all of that time plus your sales, your advertising to figure out to build this thing, and things can happen in between. So Drake can be a miss. I get a little defensive about it because it wasn't a possibility. And Nikki kind of falls in that category.

So when you came around to Nikki, that one happened so fast. She was right on the Drake tale already in the camp over there that she didn't need it because she's already with Drake so we did them the cover after I remember that with Drake and Nicki

and that was the way we could do the follow up you know I look back I like Waka you know I'll never forget Gucci saying to us do Waka and we're like

do OJ and he's like do Waka and we're like oh OJ and you know Waka would be a better girl look than OJ right now Gucci has his own column

now in XXL that was a miss y'all put OJ I remember that y'all put OJ right now. Gucci has his own column now, XXL. Yeah. Y'all put OJ. I remember that y'all put OJ on the cover. Yeah, well, like Cam'ron and all that song and everything. And we were excited for a minute there. Yeah. Waka's still going around.

OJ's nowhere to be seen. I love Waka, so yeah. That one hurts me. And I know that he's not the biggest rapper, biggest success story. But I feel like he's such a freshman feeling type of dude. Right. I hate that he's not part of the history. What about Chinks?

You guys miss Chinks? Chinks, I don't know if we miss Chinks. I think Chinks is kind of on that in between is that we didn't get him early and he started to bubble now. It felt a little bit late. He was a little bit older. We always had respect for him.

He always came up to the office and played us music. RIP. It's been tragic to hear all of that Of what happened But there are the guys that kind of Fall in between And you don't know what's going to happen And you don't know when their time's going to shine

And then they start to get a little bit older And then they're kind of in their career already Then going back to them You don't know if that's disrespectful How they feel, where they want to fit in Next to the 20 year old or not That's how I felt when y'all did French. I felt like French had been around for a while.

The difference is how much they come to us and they want it. French wanted it. French was there. I mean, Chinks wasn't there like French was when French went for his campaign with it. And that's part of it is that we see your desire for it so much. That becomes it. But I don't know.

I guess French was in mid to late 20s at that point, 27, 26. It's about three or four years ago now. I just happened to look up his age at 30. You know, we've had older ones. I think Yellow Wolf was probably the oldest, and he was on the fence about it. But at the same time, we were very also newer to freshmen.

I think it was our third or fourth class in figuring it out. Who's the biggest flop? The person you put on in the election and never... It's probably O.J. the Juice Man. I feel bad. It's probably out. Who's the biggest flop? The person you put on the election and never... It's probably OJ, the juice man. I feel bad. It's probably OJ, the juice man. I mean, you know, John Connor last year, I don't really know what happened.

The Dre backing didn't really do too much like it did for other ones. I don't really know what happened there. I'm sure there's other ones, but I'd have to look at the list. I forget. Who gets honorable mention this year? Who are some people that very strongly could have possibly...

I love Cap G. I really am interested in Cap G. I think Cap G is interesting. I think it was a little early for him. I'm talking nonstop, so Miranda, what do you think?

Another one that we considered was Eric Bellinger. He was cool. They did a little bit more. A little R&B heavy. Yeah, I say Cap G. Cap G is really buzzing. We like Kalani a lot,

but we thought that skewed a little too female R&B for the XXL audience. But we were interested in her and we didn't really know how to deal with that one. And we had a few throw downs in the staff meetings about those. And it's not that we don't support, we just don't know how it fits in. Right.

You know, whatever the scheme of things are. So that becomes part of it, you know? how many of our people we because i remember we sat up here and talked about who we thought should make the list only person i was i was on tank heavy you know we know i've been campaigning for tank for a while where where that's that's it for me and then i i actually got to go to the shoot for the i went to the shoot that put me on the rory going to the shoot and seeing rory i'm went to the shoot. That's what put me on to Rory. Going to the shoot. And seeing Rory, I'm like, oh, he's kind of dope. Then I started listening to his album. I'm like, he's very dope.

Yeah. Rory's a talented kid. That's going to be interesting. I thought Detroit Shea would have been on there, but I guess not really. Still a little too early. I think she's dope, though. In the beginning, we were really considering Bobby Shmurda, too. But he kind of, you know.

He wouldn't have been available for the shoot. Yeah. That was the hard thing. I mean, we've done Chief. No, he wasn't. No. No. Because he got locked up in December. That was the hard thing. I mean, we've done Chief Keef. No, he wasn't. No. Because he got locked up in December.

The shoot was in April. You know, last year, sorry, a few years ago, we had Chief Keef and he had been locked up. But we knew Chief Keef was getting out. And when we had put him on the cover, he wasn't locked up. You know, with Smurda,

there's not really an end in sight exactly right now that you can guarantee. Right, because he should have been on there. He had the music to be on there. And he still has records that ring in the club, whether it's Bobby Biff, whether it's the P on there. He had the music to be on there and he still has records that ring in the club whether it's Bobby,

He kind of falls under the one hit wonder thing. No. At the time. At the time, he absolutely did. Well, he also hasn't had

the opportunity now to... He had three records circulating at that time. Yeah. Now he hasn't had the opportunity to promote himself, obviously,

the way he could have been. So, who knows? We talk about it with him in the new issue. So he speaks on it and we talk about him. We spoke to him while he was locked up

There is locked up And got his take on it He was frustrated but not disappointed Maybe it was the other way around Were you surprised by Fetty Wap? No, I don't think so First of all, Jersey over here has been repping Fetty Wap like crazy And we have a few other Jersey staff members

So they went very hard for him I think that's East Coast And I think that's interesting I think that's an East Coast artist has been repping Fetty Walk like crazy. And we have a few other Jersey staff members. So they went very hard for him. I think that's East Coast. And I think that's interesting. Is it East Coast? I think that's an East Coast artist. No. You know, people don't know he's from Jersey.

He's from Jersey. People don't know. They go out to those shows and all the Jersey comes out for him. You know, in New York and stuff. And when you see Jersey come out, you see an East Coast crowd come out. And you're just not used to besides kind of the hipster audience, like you've got a real Jersey crowd. And it just was, it felt for the first time, even going out,

even though the cops shut the shows down that I went to, that it felt like, okay, so this is interesting. New York's out. There's an East Coast feel here. Even if the performance isn't like that, that people want to support. I think what's amazing about Fetty Wap is it's a big crossover crowd. Like, you know, I played a club last night. It was 70, 80% Caucasian, and they knew my way. They knew, you know, his records that-

Dude's got three songs. You know what I mean? I mean, my way had 30 million listens on SoundCloud. My mom told me she liked that song the other day. Okay. And she comes to Freshman. She was like, that kid at Freshman, I heard that song. You know, so I think that's interesting.

It's kind of interesting. And in the cypher, he sings know he doesn't rap so we thought that was interesting and it's freestyle he raps but inside in the cypher he really sings so we were surprised by that that we thought that was an interesting look you know he's very quiet and at first you think it's a little bit of an attitude miranda i think got into a fight with him that he didn't even get into with her um because she thought he was giving her an attitude and he wasn't. He's so shy. So he's a very sweet kid, which is interesting that I think people have embraced him so far for that.

And three records can't be denied these days because they're huge off of one. He's talented. He's fire. Absolutely. He's fire. And he's nice. Plus, he's got a great look on that cover with that New Jersey Devil's jersey. You know, everyone's excited about.

So I know you always do the freshman tour and the concert and all of that. What's happening? New York and L.A. New York, June 30th. Best Buy, L.A., July 13th at Nokia. So they should be great. Special guests we've been hearing about already. You know, it's going to be pretty cool.

I should be plugging the sponsors, but I don't know what they are offhand, so another time. But it definitely will be a good look for us. June 30th, July 13th, you guys going to be a part of this? What's going on? It should be a nice day. And when are the cyphers coming out and all that good stuff? Starting next week and the week after will be the freestyles

and then the week after, that's the cyphers. You got two weeks of freestyles, a week of cyphers and then some more interview stuff and some extra things after that. All right, the final question for you, Miranda. This is the pressure question. The list is out. Who's going to be the head of this freshman class? Who's going to be the one that goes?

Oh, damn. But Tink. Fetty or Tink. I can't decide. I agree. I say both. I think Fetty and Tink. I mean, it's hard because you want to support them all.

You just picked them all, you know? But I think Fetty's got a great setup, and I think Tink is going to surprise some people. I think that day she surprised a few people. Some of the guys really weren't sure what to do there. You know, after her cypher, and they didn't see a freestyle. She bodied the cypher. And Timbaland was there, and you have him screaming in the back room.

We had to edit around All his screaming I wanted to tell him To be quiet I was like Would you please You know But no She bodied the cypher

And she bodied the freestyle And everybody's Everybody's dope But personally I was affected by that By her By her performance The most

I don't want to say It's just because It was a female thing That was a big part of it You know Because you're like Yeah you're doing it For the girls

But also I mean mean, the dudes shut up. They did. They absolutely did. And Rory's great. Goldlink's great. Goldlink's freestyle is great. Everybody's talented this year. It's just there's a lot of new artists and it takes less for them to blow up than ever. So

it feels like our job got harder. Like Crimea River, you know? Those are my three, though. Tank is my head of the class. Then Fetty Wap and then Roar. Yeah. You never know what some of them are going to, you know. Yeah, Fetty Wap. That OG Maco's got quite a personality, quite a personality. You can do some stuff with that, you know?

And so it'll be interesting to see how they all unfold. And people are already campaigning for next year, I'm sure. Yeah, they campaign like crazy. It's amazing. I mean, it's great, you know. Thank gosh it's like that. You know, thank God we have that success. But it's crazy. It's amazing. I mean, it's great. Thank gosh it's like that. Thank God we have that success, but it's

crazy. Especially in this day and age when people necessarily don't care about magazines anymore. Yeah. I mean, they don't care about magazines anymore. They don't want to read the articles. They want to be on the cover, so whatever. You know, I mean, we still deal with that nonstop, from the one who's being unrealistic about getting the cover to the one

that we wish we could get and is too huge to get, and maybe we'll do it. Well, because the Breakfast Club should get the cover. In the Breakfast Club, you know? Not no damn freshman. I didn't say freshman. I just said a cover. I didn't say freshman.

And Gucci Mane also has an advice column, which I think is interesting now. Yeah, Gucci Mane. We kicked off an advice column with him yesterday. I think we're going to do it once a week. People can send in their questions to XXL at XXLMag.com and ask Gucci. You know, you can ask him whatever you want. I love Gucci.

It's disrespectful. We're not going to give it to him just because we're going to send him a question. Please send us questions because he's so into it and ready to go. And the staff love the, we kicked off with staff questions yesterday. So, you know, I mean, we could do questions from all you guys and do, you know, what's it called? Let me find out if Miranda was writing his letters from jail. Because that punctuation of his grandma would be so good. No, no, no, no.

You should see the emails I get. You know, I mean, you should see the emails I get. He's on it over there. Wow. He's on it over there. I don't think Gucci locked up, man. He's recording. He's locked up.

He's locked. He's got one dude doing everything for him on the outside. And he's locked up. I'm glad you said on the outside. Because I was like, whoa. No, no, no, no. You know Twitter,

so and so and everything. That Gucci's a smart dude. That's going to switch everything up in Atlanta whenever that happens. Yeah, Gucci be hitting me on Instagram, Twitter, DM me. I'm like,

all right, Gucci. He followed the whole staff the other day. They all flipped out. I was like, it's not even him, guys. It's somebody else but they flipped out.

We appreciate you guys joining us. We appreciate the support. Thank you. And the magazine is on stand. On stand is everywhere June 30th,

but it'll be a little bit before then in the big cities. And the cover is out now. So, you know, at XXL, at V-Satin XXL, at Randa Wrights, at, at, at, at, at,

you know, you can tell us where you want to complain. Congratulations to everybody who made it this year. Because they don't want to make you up. They want to complain. Absolutely. Well, it's the Breakfast Club.

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Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused

to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together.

So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.