Lil B – Rain In England Previews
“Rain In England Is NOT an ALBUM
it is an EMOTION”
Also, The Pack is Back.
Bonus Actual Rap: “Realest Alive”
“Rain In England Is NOT an ALBUM
it is an EMOTION”
Also, The Pack is Back.
Bonus Actual Rap: “Realest Alive”
December 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
FIRST!
December 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
what kind of drugs does lil b do? i want to fully appriciate his music. is he based because of rock cocaine?
December 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
^^SPARK GRAPES BRUH
December 29th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
@LILBTHEBASEDGOD
RAIN IN ENGLAND
2010 WILL BE A VERY NEW YEAR FOR MUSIC
December 29th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
When can I buy some Lil B CDs at Rasputin? I want CDQ, not MP3…
December 29th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
First two videos are in the same key. I recommend starting the second around two thirty or three then adjusting the volumes for vocal prominence depending on which brain lobe wants to pay attention and overlap the lines of thought. It’s a known fact that the more beatless Lil B you play simultaneously, the more information your subconscious takes in. I am ready to load Rain In England onto the ipod, crank the volume up, and walk the strange streets slowly after dark like an astronaut visiting a strange planet, relaying messages back home on all i see in urgent poetry of mind manifested in real time whatever that is.
Realist Alive AKA Exhibit D amirite
as we proceed
December 29th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Yanni of the rap world?!!!
December 29th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Live at the Acropolis
December 29th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Very Unique and Dope
December 29th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
why do u guys like this nutjob so much????? you all think he is a mixture of kool keith/john lennon/gucci mane/nas (escobar), when hes literally rambling on and on and you think theres more to it than there really is… please hate on my hating
December 29th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
hes far from kool keith my nig….the problem with all these “innovative” rappers these days is theyre 20 years too late
December 29th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
M Stunna – I wouldn’t really compare him to any of those guys – Kool Keith maybe a little, but his experiments were more on the traditional hip-hop dimension. Gucci is weird, but it’s controlled and intentional (using unusual rhymes, etc).
It’s a little odd to be discussing the cat’s technique where he’s likely to read it but I’ll do it anyhow. I realize this is entirely long, I just got to thinking and didn’t stop.
Usually when a guy spits off the top of his head, the intention is to demonstrate skill and wit and ability. While B does have traditional rapping ability, the based freestyles are trying to do something entirely different, which is to directly open his (subconscious?) thoughts to the tape. It seems sort of like rapping because it’s framed as such, and because his verbal consciousness is shaped by rap and being a rapper, but what he’s really doing is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_automatism
and instead of starting with the medium of poetry or painting or instrumental music (free jazz!), he’s in rap. That’s interesting enough to begin with, and he’s also very good at it. He doesn’t censor himself or let self-consciousness interfere with what he’s doing, he puts force behind every word and doesn’t retreat.
Combine that with unusual instrumentals (the ambient stuff or those noisy rave tracks) and you wind up spending a lot of time very close to the thoughts of another person. All you can really pay attention to are the words he’s saying, and you can hear the thoughts forming and the words coming to him and the tiny fracture half-pauses as a sentence forms. It can be really disconcerting, almost psychedelic, to have your mind that full of someone else’s thinking.
Given some of the things B has said (about his work, and about life in general) I’d say that the Based Freestyle series, to me, is about trying to find a really pure sort of communication between people, a real unmediated connection. He’s trying to share his thoughts directly as possible with a listener, which totally fits in with the sort of positive-thinking worldview he talks about, love and community and such.
As for his more traditional rap tracks, I think he benefits from the sort of practice the freestyles give him. More unusual beats, no self-censorship, and a really powerful delivery. He’s not succeeding by having the most clever rhymes or the most agile flow, he’s got raw conviction, and you can’t fake that or replace it.
So… yeah. Sorry about that ramble.
December 29th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
RT@ AK
Also, the internet.
December 30th, 2009 at 4:08 am
[yawn]
December 30th, 2009 at 7:20 am
“cadavre exquis”
December 30th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I love how Lil B has totally eclipsed the rest of the pack. I would have never have guessed that he would be the stand out. While I do support his “based” message.. its hilarious to see him cry on camera “pouring out his soul” one minute then filming a video flanked by fat white bitches screaming about how “hes a pretty bitch” the next. The bastard child of Wayne, Gucci and Sun-ra.
December 30th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
LULZ, WAYNE GUCCI SUN-RA.
yo b will you make a rap song with nick peace and get him to put it on a mill $ dream album? that would be cool.
December 30th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I want a Lil B & Husalah album where Hus writes B’s rhymes and vice versa.
December 30th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I want an album of B rhyming over Eno bootlegs (the ambient stuff of course).
December 30th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
i want b and jacka where they are both being over the top heart-on-they-sleeves emotional for the whole album
December 31st, 2009 at 6:07 am
im pretty happy if lil b keeps with the usual, maybe minus the fat white bitches.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:16 am
Lil B almost always have such great beats (or “beats”) who produces all this stuff?
December 31st, 2009 at 4:42 pm
this guy is full of shit
January 1st, 2010 at 6:17 am
In 200 years music historians will be discussing the the relevance of ’staying based,’ mark my words.
January 1st, 2010 at 8:02 am
Fav’ Lil B song of ‘09?
I’m sayin’ Chasing The Rain.
January 1st, 2010 at 6:55 pm
trust me and take my hand
when the lights go out you will understand
January 1st, 2010 at 8:29 pm
are those lil b lyrics?
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 am
I’d say this was pretentious but i’m pretty sure Lil B has no idea what that means.
January 2nd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I ASKED “GOOGLE” WHO IS GOD WHAT THAT MEANS IT ANSWERED
1. A specious allegation; a pretext.
2. A claim to something, such as a privilege or right. See Synonyms at claim.
3. The advancing of a claim.
4. Ostentatious display; pretentiousness.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:34 am
yuh
January 4th, 2010 at 7:06 am
@ AK
You nailed it.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:00 am
[...] is an EMOTION”—or rather a series of [...]
July 10th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
actually a Lil B and Jacka collab album would be dope as fuck.. rapping over spaced out beats…