THROWBACK: 2003 XXL Freshman Class

[reserved_one]

I didn’t read a lot of XXL back then but I had no idea that they were doing freshmen classes back in ‘03

Everyone on that list achieved a high level of success but Juelz is definitely the most underachieving one. Only 2 albums in 20 years? smh He was my favorite one from Dipset too.

Chingy was more of a single’s artist so his time was going to be limited.

Young Buck was on a high trajectory before he pissed off 50 Cent and made him his enemy.

 

[DarkmanX]

How was Game 21 in 2002-03? Lmao it seems Interscope was notirious for doing that. Ive literally seen it from prime Snoop, Em when he came out and apparently now Game.

That nikka born '79.

Buck 26? That nikka younger than Game lmao. Born in 81.

 

[Mac Ten]

Their careers pretty much all ran into a brick wall.

I don't know what happened with Yung Selah.

Legend says he wrote Lean Back and hopefully Joe paid him because for some reason ex Terror Squad members have been going on the Panda Chop and airing out family business.


Buck fell off due to 50 leaking that phone call and exposing him for being a busta. Industry cats probably didn't wanna associate with Buck probably because he gives flip floppy vibes(no pun intended)

Juelz is just lazy. I'm not even gonna blame that on Cam. Even Jim Jones managed to accomplish more and he was the Tony Yayo of Dipset

Joe Budden and Def Jam fell out so he became independent on E1 and Amalgam. Once he dissed Drake, he saw how fickle the rap game was decided to take a risk and gamble into podcasting which paid off.


Game had a decent career even when 50 dropped him. He didn't need em anyway but he did burn a bridge that he'd regret years later.


Banks suffered from thinking with his dikk and left The Big Withdraw in a chuck's crib.

Chingy goin to Luda was just meh

 

[CarltonJunior]

Lz was on that list and definitely had the potential...

Why did he have to get hooked up on drugs with Wayne?



At least Wayne was a functioning drug addict.

My personal opinion is that his work with wayne is the best work he ever put out, but I wasn't a dipset fan

 

[Kliq_Souf]

How was Game 21 in 2002-03? Lmao it seems Interscope was notirious for doing that. Ive literally seen it from prime Snoop, Em when he came out and apparently now Game.

That nikka born '79.

Buck 26? That nikka younger than Game lmao. Born in 81.

Banks and Juelz born the same year, but they got Juelz 2 years younger

 

[Uncle Baby Billy]

The ages don't make sense:
in 2003, according to Wikipedia:
Buck - 22
Game - 24
Juelz - 21

 

[Uncle Baby Billy]

Even in a short bit about him, Game has to namedrop LMAO.

 

[Low End Derrick]

Looks like that Young Seleh dude was a part of #PassportGang:

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Wonder how he passed.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I didn’t read a lot of XXL back then but I had no idea that they were doing freshmen classes back in ‘03

Everyone on that list achieved a high level of success but Juelz is definitely the most underachieving one. Only 2 albums in 20 years? smh He was my favorite one from Dipset too.

Chingy was more of a single’s artist so his time was going to be limited.

Young Buck was on a high trajectory before he pissed off 50 Cent and made him his enemy.

Chingy sold 3M albums between his first two albums, he did more than just singles. His time was limited as that Nelly stl/DTP stimulus came to an end (both crews lost steam around 05)

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Banks especially, I was thinking he was in his 30’s around 03/04.

The current classes around their same ages look for they’re barely in high school lmao

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Looks like that Young Seleh dude was a part of #PassportGang:

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Wonder how he passed.

Apparently this was his IG:

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Now this thread is enticing me:

 

[DarkmanX]

Apparently this was his IG:

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Now this thread is enticing me:

Was? So he's dead 4real?

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Was? So he's dead 4real?

Sadly, I tried to do some gumshoes shyt, and apparently he was modeling over there and was featured in a top 20 models of 2015. Haven't come across anything related to how he died, but the whole thing seems a bit fishy

 

[Mac Ten]

My personal opinion is that his work with wayne is the best work he ever put out, but I wasn't a dipset fan

Originally, Juelz and Jeezy was supposed to do the tape but Wayne was around and decided to do it which made sense...


I think Wayne and Juelz need to be locked up in a studio for a 3 days. Just them and the engineers.