Nicky & Drake. . . XXL

Young Money rappers Nicky Minaj and Drake skipped out on XXL’s Freshman Class edition because they felt like their buzz was so “massive” they didn’t belong in the Freshman Class. Nicky herself said that she and Drake felt like they deserved to be in the 2009 issue not the following 2010 issue. They both felt like XXL missed out on the opportunity. She explained this on the photo shoot of her new video “massive attack”. Nicky stated “Drake and I, we love XXL, “We just shot for XXL. With all due respect, we felt like we kind of 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.’