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  Lil B, 'God's Father' (Self-Released)

  March 20, 2012 – No single album by the rapper Lil B matters for the same reason that no single painting by Andy Warhol matters. It's less their art than their approach to making it, which is generous, carefree, and unedited. In Lil B's Basedworld, quantity is quality, because quantity is evidence of a continuous and Zen-like passion for the present. Yes, he reminisces about the past — he's a rapper; it's required. …
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  Rap Release(s) of the Week: Big K.R.I.T. and Lil B

  March 13, 2012 – Sorry, I just couldn't decide between Big K.R.I.T.'s 4evaNaDay and Lil B's God's Father. They have a surprising amount in common, anyway. Namely, here are two Internet-rap veterans completely in their respective lanes, providing very few concessions to those not already indoctrinated into their worlds, and only acknowledging everyone else when it's time to lash out. …
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  I Am the Proud Owner of the Original 'Black Ken' Artwork

  March 8, 2012 – The "Storm Fires Of Doom" show was the first time that Benjamin Marra's work has been available for purchase. And though I went just to see his awesomely awkward, wrinkled-up drawings up close and personal, once I saw the album art for Black Ken, I just felt compelled to buy that shit. I stared into the piece and immediately got angry at the idea of anybody other than me owning this thing. …
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  Meet Lil B and Madlib Cover Artist Benjamin Marra

  March 8, 2012 – Even if you're not an art comics fiend, Benjamin Marra's work should still look familiar. His illustrations have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, and other publications, and he's done cover art for Lil B (6 Kiss and Black Ken), and Madlib (Medicine Show #5: The History of the Loop Digga). …
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  Grab Lil B's Sprawling, Spacey 'God's Father' Mixtape

  March 8, 2012 – A busy couple of weeks for notable rap mixtapes now features a contribution from the busiest man in hip-hop. Big K.R.I.T. just dropped his third album-quality mixtape in as many years, SPIN's No Trivia blog has named T.I. associate Big Kuntry Kane's 100% Kane as our inaugural Rap Release of the Week, and Stereogum alerts us to the moodily produced, hard-edged gangsta reveries of Detroit rapper Boldy James' Consignment. …
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  FREE ALBUM: Lil B Posts New 21-Song Mixtape

  September 14, 2011 – Lil B isn't slowing down. Without warning, the ever-prolific rapper has released a new mixtape, Black Flame. Hear it below, and download it free over at DatPiff. Internet downloads like this one have helped Lil B generate an obsessive cult following, making him one of the most closely watched figures in hip-hop. …
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  Lil B: The Human Meme

  June 7, 2011 – He's provocative, prolific, and boasts a following a cult leader would envy -- no rapper's success is more distinctly 2011 than this guy's. "He can't rap for shit," scoffs a white girl seemingly dressed head to toe in Urban Outfitters, standing in front of Philadelphia's Theater of the Living Arts. A performance inside by rapper Lil B is well underway, but outside there's an active, opportunistic scene. …
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  Lil B, 'Rain in England' (Weird Forest)

  November 2, 2010 – After hitting pop gold with 2006 novelty blip "Vans" as a member of the Pack, enigmatic Bay Area social networker Lil B has, by his own account, released more than 1,500 songs and 180 videos. And his first physical CD -- Rain in England, a therapy-session testimony that sounds like Soulja Boy having a Damascus moment in the champagne room over a beatless synth tide -- is his least accessible. …
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