In light of various up and coming rapper dissing the XXL Freshman list, 2017 Freshman Ugly God defended the list, saying that all rappers secretly wish to be a part of it.

He shared a message on Instagram, which read, "Every year around this time there are always artists slandering XXL & how they operate knowing damn well it's their dream to be on that cover. Imagine if every college player went on Twitter saying, 'F*** the NBA' everytime it's draft time because they didn't get drafted. Same s***. I haven't seen ONE person who actually made the list say something negative so thanks @xxl. Keep doing what y'all know how to do."

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