he's the perfect example of a rapper changing the idea of what rapping can be and could be…his based freestyle evolution after leaving The Pack is something of legend and should be studied…to completely divide hip hop fans and have half of them confused with the other half convinced was really something to witness…I remember hearing his new stuff in 2010 without even realizing he was the guy from that "Vans" song and it was confusing for me to get into at first…a few days went by and kept listening to him, it all of a sudden dawned on me that I was enjoying something I didn't yet understand and that really opened up my mind…I grew up in an era when rappers tried to be cool and sound cool, or be good and sound good, and be dope and sound dope…Lil B sounded like he couldn't care less about any of that, and not only did he just sound like that, but he really did end up sounding cool anyways, even when he was crying while rapping, screaming really weird adlibs, sounding like he didn't even listen to an instrumental he was rapping over…it was pure performance art at it's core, he's not trying to be a stereotypical rapper or musician, he's trying to make an art statement and say something about the music we're making as a culture
it's more so "outsider art" than it is "rap music"
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he's the perfect example of a rapper changing the idea of what rapping can be and could be…his based freestyle evolution after leaving The Pack is something of legend and should be studied…to completely divide hip hop fans and have half of them confused with the other half convinced was really something to witness…I remember hearing his new stuff in 2010 without even realizing he was the guy from that "Vans" song and it was confusing for me to get into at first…a few days went by and kept listening to him, it all of a sudden dawned on me that I was enjoying something I didn't yet understand and that really opened up my mind…I grew up in an era when rappers tried to be cool and sound cool, or be good and sound good, and be dope and sound dope…Lil B sounded like he couldn't care less about any of that, and not only did he just sound like that, but he really did end up sounding cool anyways, even when he was crying while rapping, screaming really weird adlibs, sounding like he didn't even listen to an instrumental he was rapping over…it was pure performance art at it's core, he's not trying to be a stereotypical rapper or musician, he's trying to make an art statement and say something about the music we're making as a culture
it's more so "outsider art" than it is "rap music"
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Lil B taught me positivity and love and it changed my life