Lil’ B Is So Based

“I’m a rebel. I’m a punk. I’m like a rocker in the rap world. I’m one of the outcasts. The motherfucking guy that’s just fucking crazy. Playing pranks on the fucking football stars and the athletes and then fucking their sisters.”

You may have read Bob Foster’s article “Lil Wayne Is Being Himself, And Himself Is Hilarious” in which he gives props to Lil’ Wayne for being a genuine weirdo and using his being mentally un-hingedness (totes not a word but wotevz yeah) to produce shit that bangs hard, but I say fuck that guy, you really need to get learned about my boy Lil’ B.

Lil’ B aka The Based God aka Princess makes Lil’ Weezy look like a even more of a square version of Biff Tannen when it comes to the few bars short of a verse stakes. It may have taken 6 albums and a crippling purple drank addiction for Weezy to start being an eccentric but Lil’ B was born ready. In his previous life as a member of Bay Area group ‘The Pack’ he was already putting out anthem’s championing Vans skate shoes at 15/16 (a precursor to all that faggy New Boyz jerkin’ shit) in a era when Weezy was still dropping shit with played out song titles like: “Money On My Mind” and “Hustler Musik”.

But what makes Lil’ B stand out from other rappers who also have spaced out stream of consciousness style rhymes is the fact he’s genuinely creative and original artist, the frequent comparisons to ironic hipster pin-ups Gucci Mane and Weezy does Lil’ B a disservice. Neither of them has output anywhere near as prolific or as innovative, instead of machine-gunning the internet with mediocre mixtapes every week, Lil’ B came upon the genius idea of releasing Youtube videos on a near enough hourly basis, that are surprisingly more hit than miss. Dude’s work rate is undeniable.

If rap is the mid to late 80′s Chelsea side then Lil’ B is Pat Nevin to Lil’ Wayne’s Kerry Dixon. Kerry Dixon may have got the goals, the glory, the attention and the youtube clips of said goals but Pat Nevin was a player as skillful as he was intelligent, he was also pretty cool: he was friends with John Peel, he championed the NME way back when and there was even rumours that he once got himself sent off so he could leave early enough to see Siouxsie and the Banshees in time, and nowadays he even DJ’s indie nights. This analogy is getting kinda strained but you get my point.

Who else do you know that can make a video in the middle of a suburban high school kids football match whilst rocking a Palestinian Keffiyeh?:

Who else is do you know that can make songs with Elliot Smith on the intro and contemplate suicide in their videos?

Who else do you know that can self produce a spaced out ambient rap album and call it ‘Rain In England’?:

Who else do you know that can make a song about being a nerd getting pussy?:

Who else do you know that can sample blog hype getting band How To Dress Well for a rap song?

But don’t get it twisted, ’cause for all his madcap antics, the Based God is fundamentally a great MC and he can really spit that gangster shit when it comes down to it:

Who else do you know that can make a song with a 90′s NY feel despite being a Bay Area rapper that started his career party-rap group?

One more thing:

Head over to The Martorialist for great collection of Lil’ B videos. Check his other shit with posts contemplating who in the rap game is most like CJ from Eggheads and the like. Dude is killing it right now.

And one more thing:
Oh and for those still unmoved; I’ve uploaded a mixtape for your listening pleasure. Get it, get it. You won’t regret it:

DOWNLOAD LIL’ B - 6 KISS MIXTAPE HERE

Comments

  • Poo October 1, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    oh cool a rapper that samples cool buzzbands sounds edgy and innovative

  • mcrobbo October 1, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    Just sounds like Lil' Wayne, the last one is okay though.

  • Wolfgangordie October 1, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    NIGGA DIS SHIT IS OLD. This porchmonkey was just straight up copping B.G's swag even when he did mean anything. And when I say 'anything' I mean post-modernist style over substance garbage for faux-hip-hop scenester trash a.k.a Tuvshin Bolor. At least Soulja Boy had a dance.

    • Wolfgangordie October 1, 2010 at 9:30 pm

      and before you say it, cooking doesn't count. That shit is straight up gay,

    • TUVSHIN BOLOR October 1, 2010 at 11:11 pm

      u mad, doggie.

      • Wolfgangordie October 2, 2010 at 1:35 pm

        bitch ass, go listen to your pitchfork podcasts, no-one should take this shit seriously. You wouldn't even give this crusty dicked turd burglar the time of day, if he was called Dave from Slough and he wore matching Kangol tracksuits. I'm all for looking good, stack that pussy up high etc. But when people start saying shit like 'he’s genuinely creative and original artist', I get all Bill 'O' Reilly up in this motherfucker. “Bitches on my dick because I look like J.K Rowling” nah nigga that's funny the first time, after the third time I'm not impressed. It's a joke Tuvshin, and fake ass niggas like you are the punchline.

        • TUVSHIN BOLOR October 2, 2010 at 4:38 pm

          How many rappers are directing their own videos and putting them up like that? How many rappers are willing to put themselves out there with shit that hip-hop fans would never usually give the time of day to?

          He's trying new shit.

          btw I didn't know a person could be described as hip-hop, let alone faux hip-hop. I thought that was a word to describe a genre.

          u mad, doggie.

          • Wolfgangordie October 2, 2010 at 6:10 pm

            bitchassmotherfucker I just discovered the internet, I ain't going anywhere. We ain't got that broadband shit.

            Young nigga, what you don't understand is this guy's doing shit that people like Cash Money and Lil Boosie have been doing for years. And now everyone's jumping on his dick like he is some hip hop Malcolm Mclaren, because he's packing and he not afraid to tell kat stacks she a stanky ass ho.

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H0fy73jQaI

            You don't get black like that anymore.

            What happened to Platform man, used to be white people talking about bashment, now we got this shit hip hop shit. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiet. Bishopdante, get up in this motherfucker, school deez niggas.

            • TUVSHIN BOLOR October 2, 2010 at 6:31 pm

              Cash Money & Lil Boosie been producing ambient rap albums now huh?

              If I want to listen to shit about getting dough, grinding, being on the corner, hustling and popping off shots, I can listen to other rappers. I like Lil' B because he can do the other shit without being ultra soft ala Kid Cudi or being on that boring “yo I'm kicking knowledge, Mesopotamia blah blah, black people invented civilization blah blah, these rhymes is elevating your conciousness” shit.

              On a real tho, I find it hard to listen to Lil' Boosie's awful voice for extended periods of time.

              Stop tryna front like Malcom Mclaren and the World's Famous Supreme Team weren't getting it in.

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHMVkqCKknc

              • Wolfgangordie October 2, 2010 at 6:53 pm

                Nigga who wants to hear an ambient rap album? Nerdrap was new too, you think that shits good? Nuh of course you don't bunch of polysyllabic greasy white boys.

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ld_WlqB6pM#t=1m20s

                dat's all. I will be back next week, when you tell us that Wiz Khalifa is the last real nigga alive or some other shit.

                • TUVSHIN BOLOR October 2, 2010 at 7:04 pm

                  C'mon now, your really reaching when you start posting videos of the guy getting sucker punched. As if it wasn't a bitch move on the other guys part.

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryTC6aef7Jw

                  Nuff said tbh.

                  I'll write up suttin about French Montana next week just 4 u bbz yh?

        • TUVSHIN BOLOR October 2, 2010 at 4:54 pm

          On a real tho, keep those comments coming. I'm lulzing.

  • dunmatar October 9, 2010 at 6:49 am

    the reaction to this article just proves that platform readers don't know jack shit. tuvshin, you're better than this. let them eat up bobby foster's safe, lackluster opinions and get the fuck out. come on. you know you hate blaise belville.

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      Lil' B Is So Based - PLATFORM MUSIC The motherfucking guy that's just fucking crazy. Playing pranks on the fucking football stars and the athletes and then fucking their sisters.” You may have read Bob Foster's article “Lil Wayne Is Being Himself, And Himself Is Hilarious” Lil' B aka The Based God aka Princess makes Lil' Weezy look like a even more of a square version of Biff Tannen when it comes to the few bars short of a verse stakes. It may have taken 6 albums and a crippling purple drank addiction .

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