Videos + Photos: XXL’s Freshmen ’10 Showcase (feat. Cam’ron & Vado, Freddie Gibbs, Pill, Big Sean, Nipsey Hussle, Jay Rock & Donnis)
Photos courtesy of WireImage & KirillWasHere. More photos from Ernest Estimé over @ UHTN.
XXL’s Freshmen ’10 Live concert went down last night (March 31) at New York City’s Highline Ballroom.
The show, hosted by DJ Envy of Power 105.1 and sponsored by MTV2 & Corona, was packed from wall to wall with fans waiting to see their favorite freshmen and the headliner for the evening, Cam’ron.
Veteran Doug E. Fresh made a surprise appearance during the show before headliner Cam’ron hopped onstage. The Harlemite arrived around 1 a.m. with an entourage of about 40 members all supporting Killa’s latest protege Vado. The young rapper went through his standout cuts, like his Big L tribute “Large on the Streets,” “Stop it 5″ and “Ric Flair,” before Killa jumped into “something a little more familiar.” Cam had the crowd in a frenzy as he rocked out to “Down and Out,” “Leave Me Alone,” “Wet Wipes” and “Get it in Ohio.”
[via Mikey Fresh]
[Cam'ron & Vado "Stop It 5" + "Ric Flair” via RR]
[Vado's "Large On The Streets" (Big L Tribute) via RR]
The night started off with a set by Jay Rock. The gruff voiced MC brought along up-and-coming Compton rapper, Kendrick Lamar, to play hype man, as he performed a handful of of his mixtape staples, including the hit single “All My Life.”
Freddie Gibbs followed, starting off his set list with “Womb to the Tomb,” his collaboration with fellow classmate Pill.
The Gary, Indiana rep later brought out Jay Rock to premiere their duet off his upcoming Str8 Killa No Filla mixtape, “Rep to the Fullest.”
[via Mikey Fresh]
[Freddie Gibbs ft. Jay Rock “Rep To The Fullest” via RR]
[Pill "Ok Denn" via RR]
When Nipsey Hussle arrived, his entourage clashed with Rock’s flamed up crew backstage but it was all love. Both crews celebrated unity by shaking hands with one another in the midst of throwing up their hoods. L.A. transplant Gibbs and Neighborhood Nip even took shots of Hennessy with Jay Rock in honor of his birthday.
[Nipsey Hussle “Killer” + “Hussle In The House” via TMG]
Next up was Kanye West protege Big Sean, who performed his popular song, “Getcha Some” and a new track called “Fuck You Doin’ (Bullshit),” as well as his “Supa Dupa Lemonade” freestyle.
[Big Sean "Fuck You Doin’ (Bullshit)" via SeeLifeLikeMe]
[Big Sean “Supa Dupa Lemonade” via SeeLifeLikeMe]
Donnis wowed the audience with a slew of surprises. Not only did he have a violinist accompanying him, the newly-signed Atlantic rapper boasted cameos from Estelle and Ryan Leslie, who played the keyboards during the Atlanta Brave’s rendition of “Gone.”
[Donnis brings out Estelle via RR]
[Donnis brings out Ryan Leslie via RR]
Words by XXLMag’s Brooklyne Gipson.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Fuck Diggy Simmons.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:56 pm
He hasn’t gotten that much attention since he’s been released.
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Yeah he has.
And what does Billboard have to do with the quality of the music?
Paper Trail = T.I.’s Graduation
T.I. Vs. T.I.P. may have been disjointed as an album but…
Hurt, Tell Em I Said That, Respect This Hustle, Watch What You Say To Me…this is the T.I.P. I wanna hear.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Hurt, Tell Em I Said That, Respect This Hustle, Watch What You Say To Me…this is the T.I.P. I wanna hear.
^^
From what he said on that video, you probably won’t be disappointed.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:59 pm
SMH at that picture of ryan leslie…Both he and drake be wearing that exact same tight striped shirt with the sleeves rolled up
April 1st, 2010 at 9:02 pm
*Jae Millz’s it up*
Vado > half the XXL Freshmen list
April 1st, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Whos Ryan Leslie? Do I win for not knowin?
April 1st, 2010 at 9:04 pm
[...] Props to : NR [...]
April 1st, 2010 at 9:05 pm
I dont give a fuck what anyone says but T.Is verse on Crown Me and SLU was on some Next ish.
Real Rap!
April 1st, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Coach K is 63, man.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:12 pm
I haven’t even heard Vado’s Ric Flair…but it’s safe to say:
Rustee Juxx – Vic Flair >>>>> Ric Flair
April 1st, 2010 at 9:13 pm
I dont give a fuck what anyone says but T.Is verse on Crown Me
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yeah
April 1st, 2010 at 9:14 pm
This XXL freshmen shit is getting out of hand.Who really gives a shit about these rappers? Niggas ain’t done shit.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Rustee Juxx – Vic Flair >>>>> Ric Flair
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Nah. Not really.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:16 pm
I’ve heard potential out of all these cats except for Donnis…am I sleeping on this cat? I don’t think anybody listens to this cats shit. I think I dl’ed a mixtape and deleted after a listen.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Why are niggas trying to justify T.I.? The nigga’s dope,point blank.If niggas don’t like him,they don’t like him.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Nah. Not really.
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Really Amp? I’ll take that as advice to check out Vado’s music because that Rustee Juxx track makes me want to slap the shit out of whoever is standing next to me.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:20 pm
# Jersey*made*me Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Why are niggas trying to justify T.I.? The nigga’s dope,point blank.If niggas don’t like him,they don’t like him.
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We could say that about almost anybody though, right? That we like, I mean.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
You said what has he done so those accolades don’t qualify as doing something? And Graduation is my favorite Ye LP so what you saying? lol..Paper Trail was the truth. Niggas don’t like artist to evolve, they just want them to make the music they like their whole career and stay stagnant.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Nipsey>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peiod!!!~ and Freddie gibbs niggas got classic mixtape(s)
fuck j millz nigga couldn’t even fuck with ness from da band…
Fuck young money… and T.I…
April 1st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Sometimes, I feel like Nah is like the guardians of the art form, the last bastion that is here to prevent hip hop from falling into the abyss. Some people on here got wack taste, some are great, and some are different, but everybody adds something, even if it’s just blatant stannery.
Quiet as kept, soon as my little song had two hundred downloads I felt like I had gone hood platinum on the strength of Nah. Haven’t really told too many people from my actual life that I even did the song.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
We could say that about almost anybody though, right? That we like, I mean.
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True,but this shit started a thread back like niggas was apologizing for liking dude.Trying to convince niggas he was legit.At this point if you don’t have a favorite T.I. song you lost.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:23 pm
I’ve heard potential out of all these cats except for Donnis…am I sleeping on this cat? I don’t think anybody listens to this cats shit. I think I dl’ed a mixtape and deleted after a listen.
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Same here.
Dude is trash.
I wonder who’s dick he slobbed to make it this far with little to no talent.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Trap Musik>>>>>>>>>>>
Nigga ain’t been the same since…. just like 50 except 50 blew up on his first shit… t.i had to gain popularity…..
April 1st, 2010 at 9:24 pm
You said what has he done so those accolades don’t qualify as doing something? And Graduation is my favorite Ye LP so what you saying? lol..Paper Trail was the truth. Niggas don’t like artist to evolve, they just want them to make the music they like their whole career and stay stagnant.
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this is true, D_Block. And I’m guilty of it, too: I want Mos to give me another Black on Both Sides. I don’t think he will, though, and I don’t think any other solo effort of his has been on the same level.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:25 pm
@Fresh
That’s good for you.Funny thing is eskay doesn’t think the comment section holds much weight in the grand scheme of things.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Fuck Diggy Simmons.
^ lol.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
j millz just don’t understand if not for young money you would be another aight MC from NY….
April 1st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Nigga ain’t been the same since…. just like 50 except 50 blew up on his first shit… t.i had to gain popularity…..
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Better situation for T.I., tho … 50 Cent don’t got half what T.I. has to offer as an artist at this point in the game.
I would say he never did, but that’s another story.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
# kufi-Smacks Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Trap Musik>>>>>>>>>>>
Nigga ain’t been the same since…. just like 50 except 50 blew up on his first shit… t.i had to gain popularity…..
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Yeah, but I personally liked Urban Legend, King, and Paper Trail as well. Truthfully, Tip only made one wack album, but even on that one I give him credit for trying to do something conceptual. If it don’t work, it don’t work, and you can always try something else. He found that balance on Paper Trail.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Paper Trail was Tip’s most mainstream album to date.
I could do with more of the real talk and less of the radio ready Pop formula he used on there.
And yes, Tip is nice, one of the illest out of the South…ever.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Good Looking…
April 1st, 2010 at 9:30 pm
j millz just don’t understand if not for young money you would be another aight MC from NY….
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But dude had opportunities and label fuckery always stalled his career,
It was tougher to get a deal back then. You needed to actually be a dope rapper.
Nowadays you just need a little internet buzz and you’re on the cover of XXL.
See: Donnis
April 1st, 2010 at 9:30 pm
only thing I was at all mad at, other than the vs. album, was that T.I. used King as the ATL soundtrack…the actual ATL soundtrack was fire, so I felt it was a shame that it never came out.
D_Block, any chance you have the resources to make a proper ATL soundtrack, since you’ve sort of become our DJ Drama/Mixtape king, but minus the annoying yelling and rewinding of verses just as I’m getting into the song.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:30 pm
That LP was a conscious LP in a shiny disguise. You ain’t listening right.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Fuck Diggy Simmons
April 1st, 2010 at 9:33 pm
And yes, Tip is nice, one of the illest out of the South…ever
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He is good for this generation…. but in the 90′s he would not out shine most of suave house and rapalot artist… he reminds me of cool breeze… like dude would be more relevant today then in the nineties.
dude is good but i noticed a sharp decline after Trap musik.
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April 1st, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Nowadays you just need a little internet buzz and you’re on the cover of XXL.
See: Donnis
^^^^^
L.O.L
April 1st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
but in the 90’s he would not out shine most of suave house and rapalot artist…
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BS.
Outside of Scarface, nobody on either label was/is fucking with Clifford.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
T.I trap muzick
doin my job >>>>
one of kanyes best beats
April 1st, 2010 at 9:37 pm
suave house was making good music, not classic shit by any stretch, but good
April 1st, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Lupe Fiasco – Champ Is Here
mediafire.com/?ivnx4wgmjwz
April 1st, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Better situation for T.I., tho … 50 Cent don’t got half what T.I. has to offer as an artist at this point in the game.
I would say he never did, but that’s another story.
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Nah homie… what 50 did and fucked his self up was put out great songs on a mixtape…. time after time… i mean who got more classic mixtape shit than gunit… maybe wayne… but T.I.P nor kanye… alot of these cats who are the best in the game right now didn’t do what gunit did… listen to i Hustle ft jada kiss.. nigga a 2000/2002 50 was better than 90% of these niggas in 2010…
April 1st, 2010 at 9:41 pm
@ oakley
Eightball and MJG and South circle…
listen to attiyudes by south circle then tell me a T.I song and video thats better…
April 1st, 2010 at 9:41 pm
kufi-Smacks Says:
dude is good but i noticed a sharp decline after Trap musik.
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Agreed. I gave PT a few spins but I stopped takin dude seriously after TM.
Kanye is the only mainstream nigga that I honestly consider an ARTIST
April 1st, 2010 at 9:42 pm
ShIIIII Space age pimpin is better than any song T.I has ever made…
April 1st, 2010 at 9:45 pm
@ Amp…
you crazy… T.I is not that fuckin dope… nigga not better than UGK (any member), Lord infamous (in the nineties), eight ball, scarface, devin the dude,… shit he couldn’t even fuck with a 16 year old B.g…
ya’ll better go on youtube and play the shit before you respond homie…
t.i is lyrical but could not even fuck with Luda on stomp..
April 1st, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Kanye is the only mainstream nigga that I honestly consider an ARTIST…
dude is a great… i can’t lie even when i want to not like his soft ways his albums be sick… plus he stays true to his self…
April 1st, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Kanye is the only mainstream nigga that I honestly consider an ARTIST…
dude is a great… i can’t lie even when i want to not like his soft ways his albums be sick… plus he stays true to his self…
April 1st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Mr mike…
yea i guess im stuck in the nineties… im about to roll a blunt and bump attitudes by south circle….
next niggas gone say that T.I can see a youg prodigy….
April 1st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
nipsey’s part was dope
April 1st, 2010 at 9:53 pm
****young***
April 1st, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Just Doin My Job
Motivation
U Don’t Know Me
Praying For Help
ASAP
No More Talk
Be Easy
T.I. vs T.I.P. (song, not the album)
Be Better Than Me
What You Know
I’m Illy
Ride Wit Me
Slide Show
You Ain’t Missing Nothin’
Dead and Gone
These songs are all good to great
April 1st, 2010 at 10:00 pm
I hope all these XXL Freshmen dudes enjoyed last night…cause a year from now they’re gonna look back and realize that’s as good as they are ever gonna have it…it’s sad in a way how they’re somewhat hapless victims of empty blog buzz…because they were somewhat arbitrarily chosen by a handful of blog tastemakers that they had “next”, they get put on that cover and expectations they have no realistic chance of ever meeting placed on their shoulders….say what you want about Millz, but the guy had a point…empty blog buzz is the hip hop equivalent to the increasingly worthless U.S. dollar…artificial value with nothing of real worth to stand behind it…these guys got all this “blog buzz” with not even a semblance of actual tangible fanbases in the real world…like really, what does the future hold for a guy like Pill once his album drops and sells 27K copies the first week? Then what? He laughs at Millz for being in the game for 10 years with no album, but the guy at least has his share of a gold album and two singles that have sold upward of 4 millions copies that’ll produce publishing and royalties for the rest of his life…Pill has no Wayne to fall back on…he’ll be a less successful Ace Hood…the game is rough now a days
April 1st, 2010 at 10:00 pm
AmpGeez a.k.a. Smoke Greene Says:
April 1st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
but in the 90’s he would not out shine most of suave house and rapalot artist…
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BS.
Outside of Scarface, nobody on either label was/is fucking with Clifford.
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Eightball & MJG >>> Anything Clifford ever rapped, and I been fucking with TIP since he got booed on Spelman’s campus in 2000, right before he dropped I’m Serious.
JihaD
April 1st, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Outside of Scarface, nobody on either label was/is fucking with Clifford.
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Blasphemy…it’s a damn shame that so many people that know nothing of southern rap but what they’ve read over the years in the orthodox east coast biased hip hop media and the messegeboard/blog circles sincerely believe such bullshit….it’s as if nobody from the south gets props but Face and Outkast…
8Ball & MJG
Big Mike
Tela (i hear a lot of him in Tip’s style)
We all at the very least, Tip’s equals
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:58 am
Killa!
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Yo does anyone who was there know the name of the first cpl songs Jay Rock performed, shit was pretty tough!
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 pm
KILLA.
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