Lil B Essentials (Work in Progress)
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Playlist Length
0 days, 13 hours, 11 minutes
Playlist Followers
26
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Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Deep
Style
Varied
Average Release Decade
2010s
Main Genre:
Hip Hop
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Just to chime in on top of everything everyone else has said: Lil B is my favorite artist and it has very little to do with the memes, the "swag", or songs like Wonton Soup, Like a Martina or Looks Like Jesus. This style of Lil B has truly never been my thing and probably never will be. It's for the hundreds if not thousands of other songs that he's released that have *actual* meaning, *actual* epic/multi-layered beats and *actual* effort put into them beyond just dropping a bunch of curse words and cooking references. For every song he's made like Suck My Dick Hoe, there's a song like The Age of Information, or Giving Up, or Trapped in Prison, or Heard Her Cry, or A Place for Everything, or You Saved Me. Shit, he's got *entire projects* that are made of serious raps over some pretty amazing production (first three that come to mind are *God's Father*, *Angels Exodus* and *I'm Gay*). He's not the most technical emcee and probably never will be, but he's true to himself and the meaning through the songs shine through more than anything else at the end of the day. The guy's even done full spoken word albums going into his philosophy on living a positive life and wrote a self-help book at the age of 20. He's even given lectures at universities, as recently as Princeton which invited him to speak there last year. [9th Wonder explained this about Lil B better than I ever could years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRryyRFXqbc): he has the "swag" tracks to pull in the people who would frequent WorldStar and similar avenues back in the day, but secretly had a whole other side of his music that not nearly as many people knew about because it wasn't as edgy/marketable. Lil B's song Base for Your Face even sports 9th production and verses from Phonte and Jean Grae. *Never* would expect those 3 to ever collaborate with a guy who'd make a song like Wonton Soup but they did because they realized his other materials is, to a degree, a façade. Lil B was the first true 'troll' rapper and he worked an entire generation of hip hop fans to a T. Don't believe the lies. He's dope and always has been. [I started a Spotify playlist that has the best of his more serious work and plan on finishing it soon](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2xZM2gYfJKnHVyxmYXPoM6?si=S4MJbd8dQ2eTXR-AQ47xoQ), even incomplete it's about 8 hours of music right now, if you just skim through some of these tunes I can almost guarantee you'll find something that moves you.
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hiphopheads
Reddit Username
Dorian_Ye
Reddit Timestamp
10/29/20 11:07
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