With all the footage coming out of XXL over the past couple months, it’s all starting to come to a close. Today, you get to check out a 360 behind-the-scenes look of the 2017 XXL Freshman Class shoot. Peep it above and re-live anything you missed from the Freshman Class anywhere you can look.

Zendaya Coleman is nuzzled in the corner of her living-room couch, next to her dad, Kazembe Ajamu Coleman. They’re mirroring each other’s body language, both pausing to look up from their phones when I walk into the room. Her mother Claire—whose towering posture resembles Zendaya’s 5′10″ stature—is the one who opened the door for me at their modest home in Los Angeles’ Echo Park neighborhood.” Read the rest of the story HERE!

Renowned photographer Steven Taylor offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the recent shoot with Kid Ink for the cover of the Los Angeles-bred rapper’s upcoming LP, ‘Full Speed.’ Conducted back in November, the shoot took place at Mack Sennett Studios in the City of Angels — which also happens to be the spot where the video for “Blurred Lines” was shot. You can check out a couple of pics above while a behind-the-scenes clip from the shoot appears below. Kid Ink’s Full Speed is due out January 30 and can be pre-ordered now via iTunes.[more…]