lil b (the based god)

^^ cool post

otm

yeah cool post. but even so, and no matter how much it bums you out, you must totally be able to understand how that scene took the college kid indie boy market by storm?

yeah i mean they are super popular, and it's all different now. those guys went out and toured and made their own audience, i think that was one thing that they learned from the punk/indie scene in mpls is they approached it like a rock band, the work of touring, etc

so they got popular with a bunch of ppl that are considered lame and stuff so i think it distorts the perspective of where they really fit in with hip hop.

(and i'm really of the opinion that atmosphere in partic hasn't done anything really great for quite some time)

anyway just thought it might be interesting for peeps to have some perspective on one of the great goon strawmen idk ymmv etc

they seem like chill dudes and i have the odd 12" with slug or whoever on it doing their thing which makes me feel bad for just not liking their music

also "slug" is like the worst rapper name

i feel bad for Beyond, he was in the group at first, then just disappeared.

but yeah they weren't really that far from tons of fondle 'em rawkus stuff, they weren't even really emo at first, this one features beyond:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyfq3orZRPw

he changed his name to Musab later, had a great song called "actin' rich" i can't find on youtube

still doin stuff i guess i think he moved to las vegas tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghbNrM8LBf4

this is one of the old school headshots mixtapes (which kinda put rhymesayers on the map)...it had casual and saafir on it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf50Hn8P3QM&feature=related

also obv Life Sucks Die mag was huge in mpls hip hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ-5drmCZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ-5drmCZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ-5drmCZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ-5drmCZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ-5drmCZQ

LOL

guy at the drop at 0:30 is so classic

^^^

http://twitter.com/#!/nofilee/status/32366748581761024

"turns out lil b can't be arsed, or his manager's a dick. either way, tour off and lots of folks time wasted. balls."

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/02/01/arts/music/01kuochart/01kuochart-blog480.jpg

kuo is seriously the PRR of the New York Times

yeesh, that one is terrible

yeah wtf

When is that guy funny?

it's cool you just have to let your eyes kind of unfocus in order to see what's going on

it's like one of those 3-D area-under-line charts you can do in excel, only much less user-friendly

obv they don't work at all as criticism but they can be okay sometimes -- that one is just terrible tho

smdh at the quality of the nyt's lil b coverage

omg

http://diorpaint.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3074343521/1/tumblr_lg0ftvlPbN1qb343r

:D

:-[

http://i51.tinypic.com/2m48w0k.png

"turns out lil b can't be arsed, or his manager's a dick. either way, tour off and lots of folks time wasted. balls."

someone got me a huge chef's hat for my birthday :'(

yeah, a little gutted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5935fx15CU

EVERYBODY KNOW JUSTIN BIEBER IS MY COUSIN
STRAIGHT WESTSIDE BASED GOD ITS NOTHIN

i think we can go ahead and shut this thread down now — basically nothing we can say or do at this point that will touch the basedgod so we might as well just sit back and let this thing run its course

(this is not me jumping off the bandwagon — or if it is, then it's only so i can have a better view of it from the side of the road)

http://fictionwritersreview.com/wp-content/uploads/littlebee.jpg

that bieber track had me laughing literally 4 seconds in

my mom was reading that book last year and yeah, i giggled at the name every time

based novel

no it sounds sad and awful

http://pitchfork.com/news/41547-download-a-676-song-lil-b-mixtape/

Someone should liveblog that

sounds like a kickstarter project

i'd be more impressed at this point if anyone managed to listen to lil b's music without writing a lengthy thinkpiece about it

fuck u based god for cancelling your European tour man, fuck u based god fuck u

Has anyone listened to any of these 600-something songs yet?

"i'd be more impressed at this point if anyone managed to listen to lil b's music without writing a lengthy thinkpiece about it"

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/7721/based.jpg

Where are you, noz?

in the lobby, writing a think piece.

there but for the grace of based god go us all

typing "swag" 800 times counts as a thinkpiece in this situation fwiw

yeah and writing "zeppelin rocks" in the margins of a notebook qualifies as a graduate thesis. gtfoh.