Two newly popular artist PartyNextDoor and IloveMakonnen both opted out of being in the XXL Freshmen lineup. Both artist are affiliated with Drake who also opted out of being a XXL Freshmen and it didn’t slow down his career one bit. Editor-in-Chief of XXL spoke with the breakfast club about the artist saying “Nobody turned it down this year, but some funny responses…Not funny, I don’t wanna be weird, but not such responsive responses from the PartyNextDoor/ILoveMakonnen camp. That they didn’t seem so interested, so we didn’t run that lane too hard”.