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Nba street soundtrack vol 1 zip10/25/2022 ![]() ![]() Lil B is difficult to listen to, if only because, like many DIY artists, he almost isn’t meant to be listened to. And with Pitchfork Media giving Lil B’s 2017 mixtape “Black Ken” a glowing review, Lil B’s popularity is beginning to subtly rise. Recently, famous figures such as Chance the Rapper have credited Lil B as an influence (Chance even recorded a Christmas Freestyle EP with The BasedGod). Lil B’s self-release platforming, his refusal to sign to a label, his part in the creation of what is now known as cloud rap (which is now a mainstream movement championed by the likes of ASAP Rocky, Denzel Curry and Earl Sweatshirt, just to name a few), have made him an important underground figurehead in rap. Lil B’s songs are also parodies of pop-culture, with some of his most famous songs simply featuring hooks where Lil B compares himself to a certain celebrity (songs like “Katy Perry” “Paris Hilton” “Rick Ross” and “Ellen Degeneres” for instance). He cursed both James Harden and Kevin Durant, which is directly responsible for the Thunder and subsequently Durant’s loss in the 2016 NBA Finals. In the world of pop-culture, Lil B occasionally shows up in news articles because of his NBA curses. Lil B is simultaneously part parody of rap culture, part self-aware deconstruction of what it means to be a rapper, and of course, part-rapper. Lil B wants to provoke, bother, confuse, and create disruption. It’s extremely disruptive to listen to songs where Lil B proclaims the importance of positivity and love, such as on “No Black Person Is Ugly” which was widely regarded by music critics as one of the best songs of 2014, and then listen to a song like “Child Support Me” (from the same Mixtape titled “ULTIMATE B-”) a song about the importance of murdering girlfriends who want Lil B to pay for child support. It’s hard to know who actually listens to Lil B. Most of his followers, however, and arguably he himself, are completely ironic. He is religiously followed by fans who call him the greatest of all time, an actual god, a man of intense positivity whose sole purpose is, like Jesus, to spread good news throughout the Earth (he’s traveled to many college campuses to give self-help positivity talks). Perhaps 2 hours of Basketball themed freestyles are your thing? I highly recommend the mixtape “Hoop Life” as an intro to the BasedGod. ![]() Other albums like “Hoop Life” or “Based Jam” are basketball themed. Mixtapes like “Pink Flame,”“Red Flame,” “Evil Red Flame,” “Red Flame (Devil Music Edition),” “Green Flame,” etc… all feature Lil B at his most nonsensical and braggadocious. ![]() Perhaps he is most famous for his Flame series. Mixtapes like “05” only scratch the surface of Lil B’s musical capabilities. ![]() All of which feature stream-of-consciousness nonsense rap which sounds like Lewis Carroll met up with Soulja Boy and Kool Keith and recorded an album. Since 2010 he has released 50 mixtapes at a once prolific rate (16 mixtapes in 2012 alone, for instance). Since his initial burst on the scene at the age of sixteen with the one-hit-wonder “Vans” by his group The Pack in 2007, Lil B has remained an important figure in the underground rap-scene. Lil B’s songs slap and it sort of hurts but you sort of like it. They don’t slap in the bumpin'-in-your-whip post-Drake Migos-drenched era we live in now rather, they slap in a “this reeks of insanity and I’m really scared of what’s going on” manner similar to listening to, say, Captain Beefheart (papa avant-garde of the rock music) or The Shaggs (with their proto-punk inability to play instruments after receiving word they would become famous musicians from a psychic in 1968). There are over 100 songs on the six-hour long mixtape “05 ‘Em” (all censorship of titles of albums and songs handled by yours truly), and all of them slap. ![]()
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