I had never heard of Lil B before falling on the latest list of Aquarius Records. My attention was instantly captured and offered excerpts completed phishing. With a name like Lil B, if I came across this artist before, I would surely discredited without really pay attention to his work and his approach . And I'd missed something really special.
Lil B's story is altogether unknown; rapper from Berkeley, California, aged 20, is part of a youth group called The Pack and invaded MySpace with a hundred different accounts. He also made a video with Soulja Boy, which has greatly contributed to make it known. But it is also very prolific on Myspace and Youtube Twitter, etc.. Lil B knows how to use social networks to their advantage and use them well.
A whole creative process behind his music and that is one thing that makes it highly interesting. Billing itself as "Based God", he named his artistic approach as "Based Freestyles. In his remarks, it seems that Lil B has always been that they saw as strange, odd group. He was being treated for "basehead" (synonym crackhead) by the people around him because of his strangeness. Only it was appropriate insult and diverted to his advantage, giving it a completely different meaning, a designation allowing him to name the character its unique approach. In so doing, it allows artistic freedom totally unbelievable. Many of his songs on Youtube are salacious and vulgar, deal with bitches, grills, firearms, but at the same time he treats himself fag and princess ...
Now he just released a fascinating disc on the label Weird Forest, which came out earlier this year the wonderful disc Mark McGuire (group Emeralds ) "Tidings / Amethyst Waves". On this disc, Lil B raps over layers of synthesizers, not beats. A disc New Age rap, directly linked with all the movement known as hypnagogic, closer musically by artists such Emeralds, O neohtrix Point Never Dolphins and in the Future . Based produced by The God, we can assume that it is he who has produced all the documents that make up this disc hovering. On 14 Songs, Lil B gives us his inner world, surprisingly, speaking on topics that allow very personal as to expose his philosophy of life. He talks about his fears, women, dreams, family ... It is by now an astonishing honesty, we are surprised to feel a voyeur. You may recognize the phrasing and images of Saul Williams or even Killah Priest on "Temple of the Mind." Most pieces are longer than 5 minutes and are free of refrains, which leads me to appreciate even more the approach of this atypical artist ...
Except that Lil B has not the voice of Saul Williams and his flow is monotonous and redundant after all. On some parts only he allows himself to sing wrong, but it appears as welcome in this together rather monochrome. The musical composition is a bit redundant, based largely on notes held in the manner synthesizer drones. Still, this album is mesmerizing. It fascinates me more and more, especially in listening About Lil B, which seems to oscillate between improvisation and text within a single song. I found myself interested in the path of inspiration and association of ideas and especially how it connects the images. He himself says he tries to let his unconscious through his freestyles (hey hey, it reminds me of someone) and it is indeed rich enough that we get lost momentarily. For I doubt if even the side of the thing entirely improvised, as it would be entitled to clashes and lapses interesting. Although some parts are delivered at a rate closer to the spoken word, which can facilitate the sequence of words and ideas, improvised or not.
short, I like Lil B. I love when an artist is not confined to an image and can do what he wants, what he really wants.
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