Everything Based
(Lil B; 2010)
Track ratings
1. Intro
2. Rich Bitch -
3. Pretty Boy -
4. Cook Steak Knife -
5. Everything Based -
6. Wanton Soup -
7. Cook My Bitch -
8. Soulja Boy Checks In - [rating]why is Soulja Boy here?[rating]
9. Cooking Dance -
10. Shoutout (Interlude)
11. Insane -
12. All I Know -
13. Suck My Dick Hoe -
- The last 30 seconds of this song is a commercial for his upcoming work and his "250 free songs" on some website
14. I Got Bitches -
- Lil B does something like sing-wail-rap over the "Dirty Diana" instrumental. It's amazing. One of only two humorous songs that hit. (by the way, this isn't the only song called "I Got Bitches" by Lil B. I think he has a bunch of songs with that same title as a joke, but I don't know what is real anymore.)
15. The Summer (Interlude)
16. The Summer -
17. Violate That Bitch -
18. T-Shirt & Buddens -
- A surprisingly good diss song.
19. Like A Martian -
Lil B is so prolific that it's impossible for all of his releases to suck, or for all of his releases to be good. He's also an enigma, an anomaly to be sure. He is the most polarizing figure in rap, or perhaps that's not that the correct way to put it. It's hard to tell if people who claim to like him really do. There's people who ironically love the self-proclaimed Based God, there's people who legitimately love him, people who started out ironically loving him and got tired of the schtick, and then there's the people who think he is just trash. I don't fall in any of those categories, but I think most people who've listened to him do.
This particular mixtape isn't one of his good ones. This tape is missing any of his surprisingly deep serious songs ("No Black Person is Ugly" is a good example.) Not much of his attempts at humor hit either, really. I think the overuse of the word "swag" is meant as a joke, but it's hard to tell if B is in on the joke or if the joke is on us or if there is a joke at all. If Lil B is meaning to be funny, he's the best at deadpan delivery in the rap game.
I am going to listen to some more of his mixtapes/albums, I am hoping that this is an outlier on the bad side.