High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! XXL is a Hip-Hop magazine, published by Harris Publications. In 1997, XXL was founded by a former Source staffer as well as others who wanted to create their own magazine based on the hip-hop music and culture genre developed by the founders of The Source. The magazine's past editors included Elliott Wilson (formerly of Ego Trip Magazine and The Source) and Datwon Thomas (former Editor-In-Chief of King Magazine). In December 2006, XXL took over the Hip-Hop producer and DJ magazine Scratch (another publication owned by Harris Publications), re-branding it as "XXL Presents Scratch Magazine". Scratch shut down in September 2007. Other titles with limited runs have been launched under the XXL brand, including Hip-Hop Soul, Eye Candy and Shade45. In August, 2005, Eminem and XXL teamed up to release a special issue titled XXL Presents Shade 45, and was designed to give maximum exposure to Shade 45 as a radio station, and at the same time givemaximum exposure to the Shady Records label as a whole, as well as the radio DJ's and G-Unit Records' artists.