We Has Spoken Artist of the Month - Lil B

Lil B & Lee Scratch Perry

Lil B is best known as a member of The Pack, a rap group from the Bay Area who scored a massive hit a few years ago with Vans, a song I personally believe is one of the best rap songs of the past decade - a classic hip hop ode to sneakers, Run DMC's My Adidas for this current generation of teenagers.

For the past year or so Lil B has been posting hundreds of free songs on many many myspace accounts. As of this post he has 16 different myspace pages with nothing but free music (that's not counting his own personal pages and The Pack's pages). He's on some Lil Wayne shit - but to the next level (internet instead of mixtape circuit).

Most of these songs are straight off the head freestyles over various types of instrumentals from a lot of bizarre sources. He uses samples from bad 80's soft rock music and what sounds like royalty free muzak you'd hear at a women's clothing store in the mall and even Christian inspirational music. He sings about hooking up with girls, being happy and how wonderful the world is.

He raps at times like a 4th grader, a really happy 4th grader who loves going to school and playing soccer and watching cartoons. Other times he changes up his voice and sports an impressive New Orleans Cash Money Records inspired flow. Mostly he just raps and sings however he fucking feels like at the moment. Sometime he sounds like he's falling asleep.

Sample lyric:

"I want the world to be 100%, 100% magnificent. I wanna see the grass green, the clouds around me, cause I care about the little things, not the big things - big cars and jewelry, material that's not even real, but life - that's the big deal!"

It's nothing short of genius. I'm really looking forward to watching what this kid does over the next few years.

Lil B "God Bless America"



Lil B "I Am the Ocean"