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For the Japanese female R&B duo, see Lil'B.
Lil B
Background information
Birth nameBrandon McCartney
Also known asThe BasedGod
Born (1989-08-17) August 17, 1989 (age 34)[1][2]
Berkeley, California, United States
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)Rapper
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active2004–present
LabelsUnsigned, Amalgam Digital
Websitewww.basedworld.com

Brandon McCartney (born August 17, 1989), known by his stage name Lil B or The BasedGod, is an American rapper and author from Berkeley, California. Lil B has recorded both solo and with The Pack. He is noted for his extensive use of social media websites such as MySpace and Twitter to build an online following.[3][4]

Music career

Early career

Brandon McCartney grew up in Berkeley, California, and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. He adopted the name Lil B, and began rapping at age 16 with San Francisco Bay Area based hip hop group The Pack. After two locally successful mixtapes, at the peak of the Bay Area's hyphy movement, the group's song "Vans" became a surprise hit. The song was ranked as the fifth best of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine.[5] The strength of "Vans" led the group to release Skateboards 2 Scrapers, featuring a "Vans" remix with Bay Area rappers Too $hort and Mistah F.A.B.. In 2007, Lil B and The Pack released its first album, Based Boys.

Solo success (2010–present)

Aside from his involvement with The Pack, Lil B garnered popularity through the use of social media Web sites. He created over 155 MySpace pages in order to upload all of his music. He recorded over 1,500 tracks as of July 2010, including hits "Like A Martian," "Wonton Soup," "Pretty Bitch," and "I'm God.",[6] all of which were released for free.

Lil B had apparently signed with Amalgam Digital in 2010 for a multiple album deal.[7][8] However, he appears to have only released one record through the label, and his subsequent records were released independently either through mixtape hosting website DatPiff, or iTunes, published under "BasedWorld Records".

Slate columnist Jonah Weiner labeled him as one of a "growing number of weird-o emcees", calling him a "brilliantly warped, post-Lil Wayne deconstructionist from the Bay Area".[9]

Lil B released Angels Exodus, on January 18, 2011, through Amalgam Digital, although he had previously released Rain in England on CD and Vinyl through Weird Forest Records in September 2010.

On August 11, 2012, Lil B stated through his Facebook that the only official album he has released was the album Choices and Flowers under his alias "The BasedGod." He said that all other releases by him are mixtapes and that he is currently working on his first official Lil B studio album.[10] Before the first Lil B album comes out he will release a rock album.[11] He has since stated he is working on a new album as "The BasedGod" called "Tears 4 God", which was released on December 30 2012.[12]

Controversy

I'm Gay album

When Lil B released his fifth album, titled I'm Gay, he received several death threats. Although he is heterosexual, he says the title is a message of support to the LGBT community. Referring to the original definition of gay, he says he is gay because he is happy.[13]

Feud with Game

In 2011, after hearing a verse from Lil B on the Lil Wayne mixtape Sorry 4 the Wait, Compton rapper Game referred to Lil B as the "wackest rapper of all time." Lil B responded by calling Game "irrelevant," to which Game then threatened to knockout Lil B.[14] Several weeks later, the two settled their differences through Twitter after which Lil B urged fans to purchase Game's The R.E.D. Album.[15]

Feud with Joey Bada$$

Lil B took offense to the lyrics in the song "Survival Tactics" by rapper Capital STEEZ, a founding member of the group Pro Era. In this, he raps, "They say hard work pays off / Well, tell the BasedGod don't quit his day job." Lil B responded with a song titled "I'm The Bada$$". Joey Bada$$ then responded with a song titled "Don't Quit Your Day Job!"[16]

Author

Takin’ Over by Imposing the Positive! is a book written by Brandon McCartney and published through Kele Publishing in 2009.[17] The book is a collection of and written in the form of e-mails and text messages, and is written in such a way that the author is e-mailing the reader. Subjects include positivity, optimism and living what he calls a "Based Lifestyle".[18] The book was passed out in an unscripted NYU lecture on March 2012.[19] On March 30 2013 McCartney announced that he was in the process of writing his second book.[20]

Style

Pitchfork contributor Mike Powell notes that "The issue isn't whether or not Lil B fans are "indentured to the idea of ironic fulfillment," but whether or not Lil B haters are indentured to outmoded ideas of artistic credibility. He's not making art designed to last the test of time, so holding him to the standards of timeless art is pointless. Ultimately, my take with Lil B is that he keeps the price of entry to his world so low that complaining about him is a waste of energy. He offers himself to his audience for nothing-- giving him nothing shouldn't be hard. Furthermore, I don't even know what "ironic" means in the context of Lil B. If he really didn't think that the world was a beautiful and endlessly amusing place, where does he find the energy to keep rapping about it for free?"[21]

Musical critic Willy Staley described Lil B's work as "variegated", because it ranges from critical parodies of the hip-hop genre to "half new age, half spoken word". He further notes that Lil B draws from a large variety of genres, especially those not commonly used by other rappers. In an interview with Staley, Lil B agrees with this analysis, saying, "I can do 'Swag OD' but then my favorite musical artist right now could be Antony and the Johnsons. That's the difference between me and these other rappers, and other musical artists in general."[4]

Discography

Albums
Mixtapes
  • 2007: S.S. Mixtape Vol. 1 (with Young L)[29]
  • 2009: S.S. Mixtape Vol. 2 (with Young L)[30]
  • 2010: Paint[31]
  • 2010: Dior Paint[32]
  • 2010: Base World Pt. 1[33]
  • 2010: Roses Exodus[34]
  • 2010: Pretty Boy Millionaires (with Soulja Boy)[34]
  • 2010: Everything Based[34]
  • 2010: MF Based[34]
  • 2010: Blue Flame[34]
  • 2010: Gold Dust[34]
  • 2010: Where Did The Sun Go[34]
  • 2010: Red Flame[34]
  • 2010: Red Flame: Evil Edition[34]
  • 2010: MM..Christmas[34]
  • 2011: Red Flame: Devil Music Edition[34]
  • 2011: The Myspace Collection[35]
  • 2011: Illusions Of Grandeur[33]
  • 2011: Bitch Mob: Respect Da Bitch Vol.1[34]
  • 2011: I Forgive You[33]
  • 2011: Black Flame[33]
  • 2011: The Silent President[33]
  • 2011: BasedGod Velli[33]
  • 2011: Blue Eyes[34]
  • 2011: Goldhouse[34]
  • 2012: White Flame[33]
  • 2012: God's Father[33][34]
  • 2012: #1 Bitch[34]
  • 2012: The BasedPrint 2[34]
  • 2012: Trapped In BasedWorld[34]
  • 2012: Water Is D.M.G. Pt. 1[34]
  • 2012: Green Flame[34]
  • 2012: Rich After Taxes[34]
  • 2012: Based Freestyle Collection[36]
  • 2012: Task Force[34]
  • 2012: Obama BasedGod[34]
  • 2012: Based Jam[34]
  • 2012: Frozen[34]
  • 2012: Illusions of Grandeur 2[34]
  • 2012: Halloween H2O[11]
  • 2012: Crime Fetish[34]
  • 2012: Glassface[34]
  • 2013: Pink Flame[34]
  • 2013: Pretty Young Thug[34]
Albums with The Pack

References

  1. ^ Lil B. "THIS IS BEAUTY AND ART THANK YOU FOR THE BIRTHDAY LOVE!! AUG 17th! HAPPY #BASED DAY!! ALL". Based World. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  2. ^ Lil B. "Lil B Myspace page". Myspace. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Caramanica, Jon (26 July 2010). "A Pied Piper of Rap, Followed on Twitter". New York Times. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  4. ^ a b Staley, Willy (7 September 2009). "The man behind the meme". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  5. ^ "The Rolling Stone Magazine Top Tracks/Songs of 2006". 2006-12. Retrieved 2013-02-07. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Roberts, Steven (2010-07-30). "Lil B Is Taking The Net By Storm, One Freestyle At A Time". MTV News. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  7. ^ "Lil B The Based God Signs with Amalgam Digital, Preps New Albums". Amalgam Digital. 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2011-01-18. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  8. ^ "Lil B Signs With Amalgam Digital | Prefix". Prefixmag.com. 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
  9. ^ Weiner, Joseph (18 January 2011). "The Triumph of the Weirdo. Rapper". Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  10. ^ http://www.facebook.com/#!/LILBTHEBASEDGOD/posts/514861768531009
  11. ^ a b "Lil B "Halloween H2O" Mixtape Download & Stream". Retrieved 29 October 2012. {{cite web}}: Text "Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales" ignored (help); Text "HipHop DX" ignored (help) Cite error: The named reference "www.hiphopdx.com" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  12. ^ "http://www.facebook.com/LILBTHEBASEDGOD/posts/571451386205380". Retrieved 14 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); Text "Facebook" ignored (help)
  13. ^ Zakarin, Jordan (2011-04-24). "Lil B's 'I'm Gay' Album Title Results In Death Threats". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
  14. ^ http://hiphopwired.com/2011/08/23/game-wants-lil-b-to-come-at-him-video/
  15. ^ http://hiphopwired.com/2011/08/29/game-lil-b-end-beef-on-twitter/
  16. ^ http://www.complex.com/music/2013/01/video-joey-badass-says-dissing-lil-b-was-too-easy
  17. ^ "Takin' Over". Kele Publishing. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  18. ^ "REVIEW OF MY NEW BOOK "TAKIN OVER"". Based World. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  19. ^ Marantz, Andrew. "THE DUMB BRILLIANCE OF LIL B". The Newyorker. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  20. ^ "Dior Paint". Dior Paint. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  21. ^ Powell, Mike. "The Curious Case of Lil B"
  22. ^ a b c "Lil B Albums, Discography". Billboard.com. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  23. ^ Andrew Unterberger (2011-04-18). "A Very Straight Lil B Says New Album Will Be Titled "I'm Gay"". Popdust. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
  24. ^ thebottomline says:. "Lil B Announces I'm Gay Album Title | DrJays.com Live | Fashion. Music. Lifestyle". Live.drjays.com. Retrieved 2011-11-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  25. ^ "Lil B Album & Song Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved July 24, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  26. ^ "The Basedgod". iTunes. Retrieved July 16, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  27. ^ "The BasedGod Album & Song Chart History". Billboard. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  28. ^ "The Basedgod". iTunes. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  29. ^ "Young L & Lil B". iTunes. Retrieved 6 January 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  30. ^ "Young L & Lil B". iTunes. Retrieved 6 January 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  31. ^ "Lil B". BasedWorld.com. Retrieved 15 December 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  32. ^ "Lil B". BasedWorld.com. Retrieved 16 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  33. ^ a b c d e f g h "Lil B". Pitchfork. Retrieved 7 March 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  34. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad "Lil B". DatPiff. Retrieved 16 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  35. ^ "Lil B". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 16 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  36. ^ "Lil B". The Fader. Retrieved 16 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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