The Making Of The Most Iconic XXL Freshman Class [Video]

XXL’s documentary revisits the 2016 Freshman Class, the breakthrough group featuring 21 Savage, Dave East, Anderson .Paak, G Herbo, Denzel Curry, and more.

XXL’s 2016 Freshman cover has been annotated so thoroughly by its aftermath that its original gamble is easy to miss. The Making of the Most Iconic XXL Freshman Class revisits the moment before 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Lil Uzi Vert, G Herbo, Denzel Curry, Lil Yachty, Anderson .Paak, Lil Dicky, Dave East, and Desiigner have become the names that now make the lineup look inevitable.

XXL has spent the summer approaching that history from different angles. G Herbo Reflects On The 2016 XXL Freshman Class and Denzel Curry Reflects On The 2016 XXL Freshman Class placed it in the artists’ own careers, while Dave East Reflects On The Impact Of The 2016 XXL Freshman Class considered the decade that followed. The new Rémy Martin-backed documentary shifts the attention to how that varied group was assembled and to the cyphers that put its contrasting styles in the same room.