Lil B, formerly of the Bay Area rap group The Pack, is one of hip-hop’s most interesting figures and seems to display some millennial traits. He has used social media and other digital resources to release over 3000 songs over the past two or so years. Lil B has an official website, a twitter, two tumblrs, two facebook accounts, several youtube accounts, and over 150 myspace pages from which he is able to release music, videos, photos, and can interact with fans. Oh, and he’s twenty years old and writes all his raps and for the most part does his own production. But why is he called the Based God? He performs what he calls Based freestyles, freestyle raps over ambient beats where he doesn’t think and just goes stream-of-consciousness. Based is also, as branded by Lil B, an enlightenment-level of thinking that Lil B preaches. One of his self-proclaimed goals is to use language as a tool of inclusion and make as many people happy as possible and help people become Based. These are pretty lofty goals for a twenty-year old rapper that self-releases all of his music. This ambition and his use of technology and millennial traits.
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