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In all seriousness, thank God for Lil B. Nobody even needs to hear his music to be glad that someone like him exists and is performing on the level of public recognition that he is. Think about it, who else in music whether it be hip-hop, pop or rock or any other genre, would be brazen enough to release an album titled simply “I’m Gay”?
Not even as a grand coming out statement either, since the man’s straight. The title of his fifth album was meant simply as a statement of solidarity with the LGBT movement. Whatever you think of it you have to admit it takes guts, but Lil B’s career has been characterised by guts, going all the way back to his beginnings in the Berkeley based Hip Hop group The Pack.
The quartet formed in high school, with McCartney actually taking up rapping just to join the group at the age of sixteen. After a couple of locally successful mixtapes they had a surprise hit with the track “Vans” a song which would later go on to be Rolling Stone magazines 5th best song of 2006. The Pack continues to work together but it’s still McCartney who’s been making headlines.
While working with his group, he branched out into making his own solo records, and by 2010 he’d amassed a back catalogue of over 1,500 songs and released them all for free on several social media accounts, including 155 MySpace pages alone. That earned him a record deal with Amalgam Digital, who released the album “Angels Exodus” in 2011.
Since then his subsequent releases have either been on that label or been independently released on iTunes. McCartney has been nothing if not controversial, but we need as much of that as we can get nowadays, true artists unafraid of mockery or ridicule, constantly moving forward. You might not like his music, but he’s earned your respect many times over.
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Lil B - Brandon McCartney, to give the name listed on his birth certificate, although he’s fond of referring to himself as the ‘Based God’, whatever that means - is representative of a very twenty-first century success story; over the course of his ten year career to date, one that began at the tender age of just fifteen, he’s used social media extensively - beginning with the likes of MySpace before such sites had reached the level of ubiquity that they’re at today. He’s also benefited from a healthy dose of controversy, including feuds with the likes of Joey Bada$$, The Game, Joe Budden and even current NBA MVP Kevin Durant. There’s no faulting his work ethic though, with seven full-length releases available to date, and he’s toured fairly extensively, too, showcasing his unusual flow and style of delivery over beats dropped by his tour DJ in intimate rooms across the States and beyond. He’s yet to tour the UK properly - his last date on these shores was at London’s Old Blue Last back in the summer of 2010 - but the fact that he’s played a handful of shows with hip hop legends Outkast this year demonstrates the high regard he’s held in throughout the industry.
Joeg_67
the lil b concert was unbelievable, there were food carts and a bar, an art gallery like a rave, tqo stages that played a variety of techno and hiphop, starting a 5pm and going on till 1am, there was a dip in audience energy, everyone was tired by the end but when lil bcame out at midnight, the place lit up, lilb sang his best songs, old ones, new ones, so amazing to see an internet legend in the flesh. at the end he hopped the barrier and was among the audience, he sat and shook peoples hand and signed everything from shoes to bandannas 'i know lil b, i know the based god', he said it best, what a great show
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