All the more reason why I like Lil B. That's why I think what he does is so powerful. He's leaving that goon life behind and becoming this troll-like Deepak Chopra tiny pants clown. I think that's a beautiful thing. Hip hop shouldn't be serious all the time.
Lil B reminds me so much of a street dude I used to know. Every time this cat would rhyme and do a little freestyle, I would hold in laughter because his voice was terrible. Not terrible in a way that you didn't want to hear it, but just jokey for some reason. He was a huge Pac and Weezy fan, and was trying to get a rap career going but wasn't too serious about it. When he rapped, it sounded like some parody shyt. And deep down, when you get past the rough side of him, he's a clown. Super cool, jovial and down-to-earth.
So when Lil B jokes about how hard his life used to be, and he had dem choppas, I feel him. He could be faking it, but that shyt sounds fukking real to me. Hip hop is clearly an outlet for him to ease stress, deal with past emotional trauma and move away from hood shyt.
If more rappers were approaching hip hop the way Lil B did it, the rap game would be saved overnight.
He rapped normal then made a conscious effort to put zero thought into his music. That's where all that based god shyt came from. College kids hopped on board talking about"oh, he's satirizing rap!" and the rest is history. The dude that wrote that article you posted up is a prime example of over thinking his music. Lil B started running with it because the alternative is "my music is just nonsense".
Occasionally he'll put out something that he actually wrote, and put effort into, and the difference is obvious. But the bulk of his Lil B based god work is nonsense....he freestyles most of it in one take. It's not meant for college kids to comb for a deeper meaning.
Fred.
I know the college kid Lil B fan is very problematic for a bunch of reasons but I'll address that another time.
Just because you freestyle something in one take doesn't make it entirely meaningless.
95% of Lil B's stuff is unlistenable trash, like you rightly pointed out. I don't bother to listen to most of his mixtapes in full. Only a couple.
But the point is-- the other 5% is actually quite compelling. It's an interesting insight into someone's raw subconscious and, by extension, modern raps' subconscious. It's a rawer, far less polished version of that stream-of-consciousness rap style that Ghostface perfected. But in Lil B's context, it works sometimes because it's funny as hell. The randomness and genuine silliness can be very compelling. The reality of the matter is that the new generation just doesn't take rap as seriously as we did. And that's both a great thing and a terrible thing.
Lil B has had me
more than any other rapper in history.Who the hell is gonna think of rhyming on a reversed Vanity 6's "Makeup" while referencing famous fashion models from the 60s and 80s? ("Bazaar Model")
Or stuff like "1000 bytches" over a Mario beat, treating conquest of bytches like getting a medal in Mario and referencing Deepak Chopra?
Your average duncecap doesn't have the aptitude for that kinda shyt.
I don't remember you or follow you. You're everywhere, every thread in the Booth carries your stench. We disagree on seemingly everything and it's impossible discussing things with you so I had you on ignore for weeks. So much for following you around though right? Dumbass. I've told you the deal, keep trolling where I see you and I'll keep shytting on you. Don't get offended, just keep it moving. 
breh, don't go so hard!! you are killing them!!!
