XXL (magazine)

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A 2005 cover of XXL, featuring Snoop Dogg and The Game.
A 2005 cover of XXL, featuring Snoop Dogg and The Game.

XXL (say: double-x-l) is a hip-hop magazine from Harris Publications. The magazine's editor-in-chief is Elliott Wilson, a member of New York City's "ego trip" collective.

Since 1997, XXL has competed with hip-hop powerhouses such as The Source magazine and Vibe magazine. It was started by former Source staffers James Bernard, Robert Marriott and Reginald Dennis, as well as others who wanted to create a better magazine than The Source, which they saw as compromised because Benzino, a Boston, Massachusetts-based rapper and associate of The Source publisher David Mays, was influencing the editorial content and rating system.

Foxy Brown on the cover of a Summer 2003 issue of XXL
Foxy Brown on the cover of a Summer 2003 issue of XXL

In December 2006, XXL took the hip-hop producer/DJ magazine Scratch (another title owned by Harris Publications) under its wing, with Elliott Wilson acting as Editorial Director. It's now called "XXL Presents Scratch Magazine."

Other titles with limited runs have also been launched under the XXL umbrella, including Hip-Hop Soul, Eye Candy Magazine and Shade45 Magazine.

XXL rates albums from "S" (poor) to "XXL" (classic). Initially, editors awarded XXL status to only six albums:


A later issue re-rated some albums and gave XXLs to:

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