lil b (the based god)

~no need for volume one~

I think it's hilarious because these beats are clearly what Lil B thinks are backpacker profound-rap beats, and that makes me smile.

Love love love the "I Ain't Never Won Remix."

sometimes i sort of think he's like the Ween of rap

good call

totally perfect comparison

yeah, okay

not sure which of those are sarcastic responses, but it kinda makes sense. on first listen they can both be dismissed initially as "funny" artists by those who expect serious cat is serious in their music, but the more you spend time with 'em you realize they're both really fucking good at aping a wide range of styles within their respective wheelhouses.

wasn't sarcastic in my case at least

Lil B Speaks at NYU
Category: NYU Campus Event

Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Time: 8 p.m.

yeah jon i wasn't being sarcastic at all

also both are have a super insular, nasty, misogynistic sense of humor

hard to tell on these threads sometimes, but yeah, totally

yeah, i'm not being sarcastic either
ILX has finally reached the point at which three positive responses one after the other elicit the presumption that at least one must be facetious
we are ready

THIS THAT BASEDPRINT PART 2

NO NEED FOR PART 1, YOU FEEL ME?

actually what i said is kinda unfair to lil b, he's not nearly as nasty as ween and doesn't seem like a shitty person like ween does

gene doesn't seem like a shitty person to me!

YOU KNOW MAN I'M LINED UP

I FUCKS WITH THE POLICE

IT'S LIKE... WE ALL MAFIA STATUS

WE ALL IN THE STREETS

WE ALL THUGGIN' OUT

YOU HEARD ME

IT IS WHAT IS

WE ALL GANGBANGIN'

BUT I AIN'T BANGIN' NO COLORS

I'M BANGIN' THE STREETS

I'M BANGIN' WORLDWIDE

mmmm get some spaghetti, bitch

basedgod.

http://pitchfork.com/news/46104-report-lil-bs-nyu-lecture/

• "I'm the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. I adopted it straight from the ASPCA, you feel me?"
• "When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious."
• "Every single person you meet, look at them like a golden million dollar baby."
• "I was having these big ant problems in my house. As I was studying these ant colonies. It's like man, they have their own communities too. I'm there with them."
• "I'm out here trying to get my Mitt Romney on."
• "You guys are the first to hear it: I'm actually releasing my rock album. This is gonna be some garage punk. This one's for the rebels. Look out for the Lil B rock record, California Boy."
• "Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like whodie, get that oil out the ocean!"
• "Real talk, you guys are about to freak out because I got a song with one of the biggest artists on Earth coming."
• At one point, Lil B laid on a table and imitated himself going to sleep, whispering, "Honesty, integrity, friendship, passion..."
• "Until further notice, I'm paying taxes and I'm loving it."

awesome

thank u basedprofessor

good convo on noz's twitter tonight about how the wesley willis element of his fanbase is out in full force for this nyu stuff

good convo on noz's twitter tonight about how the wesley willis element of his fanbase is out in full force for this nyu stuff

this was gross as hell

not the convo, the wesley willis element

i was really scared that this was gonna end up like the first "show" of the charlie sheen "tour" but i guess it wasn't nearly on that level

it was actually really awesome, i think. the crowd element was depressing but lil b despite doing zero preparation (which, you knew he would) was radiant the whole way through. he sort of ran through and returned to the same topics in a kind of thematic spiral, but it was never boring.

also, CALIFORNIA BOY

Someone recorded it, btw. People screaming 'LOVEYOUBASEDGOD' at him wearing a little thin.
http://soundcloud.com/trent-walker/lil-b-at-nyu

I love the guy, but I seriously can't keep up with him. I just got around to listening to Gods Father and there's two more now!

"there's no honor in senseless violence" OTM

this is very tony randall meets tony robbins meets tony the tiger

nabisco says things, is OTM

http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/lil-b-at-nyu-whats-so-funny-about-love.html

was just coming to post that

ICP's "Miracles" got stuck in my head while reading that

thank you based nabs

And now? “I go to sleep, I’m so happy — you know why? Because I know I’m living what I’m talking about. I go to sleep at the end of the day, I’m like” — and here he mimed sleeping like a baby. “It feels so good to be honest.” He mimed mumbling peacefully in his sleep: “Honesty … integrity … loyalty … passion … friendship.”

Someone in the crowd yelled: “Are you a brony?”

the fact that EMP was in the same building and a good amount of NYU students appeared to be in attendance makes me grateful for what a totally different vibe we had there

That's for goddamn sure.

so... did this

if you put all of based god's serious tracks on one album you'd have like the best ny rap album of the past few years

― wee-based god (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:47 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ever actually happen? is there a legit 'best of', lil b, based god

― sleepingbag, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:09 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really tho, no one has done a RAR of this

i made a mix once but it's just his 2009-2010 vaporous stuff

(not including any of the paint material)

wow nabisco's piece is really great.

yeah, agreed

it's kind of weird to me that even the smarter takes on this whole thing seem to lay the obnoxious LOLZ reception he got almost wholly at the feet of the audience itself as if Lil B's music and his presentation of it never actively encouraged that kind of engagement. and the idea that projecting a kind of super-positive motivational speaker/philosopher persona can't be in and of itself kind of a schtick really ignores the existence of Andrew W.K.

h8 posi zombies

Base yrself fitter

it's difficult to explain the middle ground

it's kind of weird to me that even the smarter takes on this whole thing seem to lay the obnoxious LOLZ reception he got almost wholly at the feet of the audience itself as if Lil B's music and his presentation of it never actively encouraged that kind of engagement. and the idea that projecting a kind of super-positive motivational speaker/philosopher persona can't be in and of itself kind of a schtick really ignores the existence of Andrew W.K.

― deejeridoo (some dude), Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:20 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See, I think the idiot savant element of Lil B is hard to properly explain, but I think there is some element of that in him, and I'm speaking as a huge Based God fan. And it plays into the is-B-putting-us-on aspect of the discussion. I don't think B is stupid, and I think there is some element of self-awareness to the whole self-help persona. I think he courts it to an extent, but here's the kicker—while B might be self-aware and acknowledge that it might be silly, it doesn't lessen the message. You can be ironic (not that B is ironic) AND sincere; you can joke but still be serious about "treating everyone like babies."

yeah i think he definitely believes in what he's saying, and it's perfectly OK to couch an honest message in humor or knowing absurdity, lots of great artists have. it just seems like bordering on willfully obtuse to act like anyone who came there to snicker and shout "thank you based god" is callously stomping over a serious event that more well behaved audience members went to witness with zero irony or rubbernecking intended.

totally otm

i mean this was LIL B GIVING A LECTURE AT NYU, there was a 0% chance it wasnt going to be awkward

Yeah, I agree there. But I'm sure there were SOME who did go there just to snicker at Lil B. Basically, it's complicated... but that feels like a cop-out? But yeah, why can't it be a sincere event but still funny? I do think that's a very precarious balance to find, an extremely fine line to walk.

it can't be a sincere event because anyone selling the kind of hippie dippy platitudes he's selling without any weirdness or lolz would not fill a room with NYU students

u dont think the dalai lama would fill a room w/ nyu students?