What did I learn about Lil’ B after seeing him perform last week at a sold out Highline Ballroom? This dude has swag on one trillion. What exactly does that mean? Nothing. Everything.
Hip-Hop has become music’s superhighway with countless lanes moving in all directions. At this point Hip-Hop is like rock music in that it needs a clear delineation of sub-genres to help the fans know what they are fuxing with. Lil’ B’s music isn’t what I would call rap even if it is heavily influenced by rap music. Dude likes to call his sound #Based music. It’s more like Hook Rap since the rap verses amount to not much more than a repeated chant.
I’m not going to sit here and knock Lil’ B’s lyrical skills when he himself will tell you he is a horrible rapper. What Lil’ B uses to develop his fanbase is his monster work ethic and more importantly, his accessibility to his followers. I’ve never watched a performer make himself so available to their fans as Lil’ B did in the Highline Ballroom. The show entered surreal cult status when fans told Lil’ B that he could fux their girlfriends and their mothers.
Lil’ B really has cats drinking the Kool-Aid like Jim Jones (no DipSet).
