I update this thing all the time, really yo.
No one can explain that huge gap from March until now. Anyway...
New Lil B track y'all swag swag swag. My love for hip hop is pretty well (mostly from me telling people how much I like hip hop in a futile way to reduce how much of a stereotype I am) but that love has never really extended to Lil B. Ok, here it goes, I'm going to say it, are you ready because here it comes...
LIL B KIND OF SUCKS. He's just a really mediocre rapper, his flow is stilted and his rhymes are pretty corny. I dig that he's trying to say something positive and profound in a lot of his songs, but he just does it in such a puerile way that it comes off as silly. This new track is no different. Positives first, the production is fucking fly and smooth and I dig it. Unfortunately, Lil B still has trouble rapping on the beat and the chorus played over the beat played over the chorus beat is annoying and sounds muddled. Once again, I like that Lil B is being introspective and saying something that needs to be said. It's true that black people are underrepresented in the media and are forced to live up to white standards of beauty. That fucking sucks, but it also sucks that Lil B has to be the guy to spread that message. Lil B has never been able to provide any sort of subtlety or nuance in his songs before and part of me is unsure if Lil B is being hyperbolic in this song to make a point or if he really believes that there has never been an ugly black person and he decided to make a song expressing his bafflement that anyone anywhere might find a black person unattractive. So yeah, thanks Based God for giving me something else to write about.
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