Next up in the XXL Freshman 2015 freestyle series is DMV native Goldlink who we featured in our “5 Rising Artists Who Are Ready To Break Out” list much before the XXL cover came out.
“I feel good. It’s cool. It’s prolific, it’s surreal. I didn’t even rap [growing up]. I didn’t even know there was a cover until like three years ago, you know? But I never would have thought [I’d make it]. I never thought about it, but when I was asked, I was like, ‘Yo, this is an opportunity and I never thought about that.’ So I was like, ‘Alright,’ you know.”