XXL Magazine

Pros: Cover story, photos & design, some articles can be pretty interesting
Cons: number of ads (half a magazine), objectivity, reviews,rating scale, letters can be annoying

Ever since I remember, wherever I heard something about hip-hop magazines, everybody was talking about XXL and it’s greatness and supremacy over other magazines. Especially over The Source, other magazines like Vibe had never been ...

Pros: Its realness, social conciousness, honest reviews of music and video
Cons: Not enough "Eye Candy"

It seems XXl and The source are running neck and neck every month to see who is going to be hip hop best magazine. For years The Source had this title all to themselves then bam, XXL comes on the scene. For it's first two months it seemed as though XXL...

Pros: Best of the bunch
Cons: Only 10 issues a year

XXL is probably the best hip hop magazine around. The Source is the best known, but XXL has surpassed it in terms of actual hip hop flavor. XXL isn't as commercialized as the Source and it kills Blaze in terms of content. They have great features and it...

Pros: Only about the music
Cons: Not for children or young teens

When I first brought XXL, I thought this is just another music magazine filled with more ads than articles. I was wrong. XXL sticks to music and only music. Unlike other magazines that started off as hip-hop then once then got a following switched and...

Pros: it's still a cool magazine
Cons: intended for blacks only

It is a shame when a consumer can see reverse racism strutting at its fullest. XXL portrays itself as a racist magazine that only uses people to their advantage. I'm a 19 year old black female who usually enjoys reading XXL, because it puts forth a...

Pros: none
Cons: everything

XXL used to be a good magazine...but after reading that Eminem article...i just realized how low some people will slump just to make a buck...what does race have to do with hip-hop...i believe XXL just made this into a racial issue because they are...

Pros: Photos, Articles and diversity of subject matter
Cons: none

I buy XXL because after buying the issue in which they reenacted "A Great Day In Harlem", I thought that the articles in in were concise, direct and out of the ordinary.

XXL doesn't do the run-of-the mill interview on the oft...