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Video: Lil B, “Februarys Confessions”
Another day, another Lil B video. If you’ve been dropping in an out of the great Lil B saga of the 21st century, “Februarys Confessions” might come as a shock. It’s pretty straightforward and subdued,...
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Video: Lil B, “Pussy On My Face (Based Freestyle)”
Lil B released the audio of “Pussy On My Face (Based Freestyle)” last month, deleting it just minutes later. It’s returned, with a new video featuring rare Lil bindi, B’s iPad and hugs with fans. …...
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Videos: Lil B, “Real Hip Hop 2012″ and “Gods Father”
On the spectrum of Lil B releases, the soon-to-be-released Gods Father is looking like it’s going to be sort of like Im Gay (Im Happy) or the Okayplayer-baiting Illusions of Grandeur, where Lil B...
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Footnotes: Danny Brown
Footnotes is the section in our magazine where we take a deeper look at the music surrounding our feature artists. Read Duncan Cooper’s FADER #78 cover feature on Danny Brown here, and check out our …...
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Video: Lil B, “See Ya”
In the grand spectrum of Lil B videos, “See Ya” is a relatively minor work. It’s not a high-concept stunner like “Wonton Soup,” and there are none of the subliminal homages to recently-deceased skaters...
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Video: Lil B, “Breath Slow”
With the video for “Breath Slow,” it’s become overwhelmingly clear that Lil B is intimately aware of LARPing. That’s short for “Live Action Role Playing.” Which is short for “Lil B is pretending to be...
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Download Lil B’s God’s Father Mixtape
It’s baffling, and it’s inspiring. There’s hardly a music parallel to the seeming effortlessness with which Lil B releases 90-minute-plus mixtapes—his 34-song God’s Father comes barely a month since...
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Video: Pepperboy f. Temolja and Blackberry, “One Life”
Little Rock, Arkansas’ beacon of “reality rap,” Pepperboy, has released a video for “One Life,” arguably his most mass-appeal-ready song to date, thanks in large part to a gruff and uplifting hook by...
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Video: Lil B, “Bout Dat Wo”
Shirtless, or sporting pink—it’s tough to decide which is a better look for Lil B. Why choose when you can have both? In the video for “Bout Dat Wo,” a bare chested, pink bandana-wearing Based … read...
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Video: Lil B, “Florida Girl”
In the great tradition of Will Smith‘s “Miami”, a carpetbagging rapper attempts to capture the promise and possibility of time spent in this country’s primary spring break destination. From a sartorial...
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Lil B to Lecture at NYU
NYU’s student-run program board will host a “very rare speaking engagement” by Lil B on April 11th. Lil B has confirmed the appearance, saying, “I LOVE THE PROGRESSIVE HUMANS.” NYU students with valid...
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Video: Lil B, “Ima Eat Her A$$”
Yesterday, NYU announced that Lil B will be speaking at the university in April, certainly marking a culture-crossover high point for an artist whose career is somehow still the object of dismissive,...
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Video: Lil B, “Ho Stop Playin”
Lil B explores the textures of a what he calls a, “classic West Coast” party beat, making waves with his hands and kissy faces in a mirror. “Ho Stop Playin” comes at the crest of … read more »
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Download Lil B’s #1 Bitch Mixtape
Released only three weeks after God’s Father, Lil B’s #1 Bitch mixtape is another hour-and-forty-one minutes of new music, bringing his 2012 release total to just under five hours, the equivalent of a...
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Stream: Star Slinger f. Stunnaman and Lil B, “Bad Bitches”
Star Slinger links up with Lil B and his pal from The Pack, Stunnaman, for “Bad Bitches.” It’s a dynamic track, but B and Stunnaman manage to make the lackadaisical air of the Bay shine … read more »
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Download Lil B’s The Basedprint 2
“Basedprint Vol. 2, no need for Vol. 1,” is Lil B‘s invocation for his new mixtape with excellent cover art. Because why make one of the greatest records in hip-hop when you could make its … read more »
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Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU
After Lil B’s 80-minute, unscripted lecture at NYU last night, I returned home in a mania and did what seemed the most logical thing: transcribed it all. There’s just something fitting about committing...
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Download Lil B’s Trapped in Basedworld Mixtape
Lil B, continuing this month’s ungoldy tear of overworking, has released his third mixtape of April 2012, Trapped in Basedworld. Thankfully, as if to show he’s at least capable of feeling fatigue,...
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Video: Kitty Pryde, “Okay Cupid”
One month after Daytona Beach teen Kitty Pryde released her Beautiful Lou-produced song “Okay Cupid” on her Bandcamp, inaugurating a run of fawning interviews with Portals, Mishka and Vice, she...
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Video: Lil B, “3 Stacks”
After releasing a string of trap videos over the past few weeks, Lil B has returned to heart-melting form with his most motivational track since God’s Father’s “I Love You.” Shot half in a sauna … read...
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Stream Lil B’s Classical Album Choices and Flowers
Lil B has released his self-professed “classical music” album, 95 minutes of atonal synth noodling with no lyrics, distributed officially under the pseudonym The Basedgod. A puzzling and center-less...
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Video: Lil B, “My Diary Pt. 4″
Washing away the taste of his classical album just a day after it was released, here Lil B heads back to rapping, returning to the beat of Beanie Sigel’s all-time great track, “Feel It in … read more »
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Download Lil B’s Water Is D.M.G. Part 1 Mixtape
Just a week after his odd attempt at classical music, Lil B has thankfully return to rapping, releasing the 32-track, 110-minute Water Is D.M.G. Part 1 mixtape—an acronym for drugs, money and gold...
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Download Clams Casino’s Instrumental Mixtape 2
Over a year since we posted his first collection of instrumentals, practically burying the tape under news of Lil B’s new nose ring, Clams Casino has released a free follow-up on his Twitter. Download...
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Download Lil B’s Green Flame Mixtape
Mmm, whodie, wipe off that Saturday sweat and clear an hour from your schedule: Lil B just released Green Flame, the fifth color in his long-running series. Notable gems: the sunny, woodwind-heavy...
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Download Lil B’s 848 Song Based Freestyle Mixtape
Over the weekend Lil B released an 848-song, nearly 5GB collection of based freestyles, compiled from past mixtapes, the now unavailable MySpace collection (RIP Megaupload) and heaven only knows where...
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Download Lil B’s Rich After Taxes Mixtape
Not even a week after releasing an 848 track compilation of based freestyles, Earth’s most prolific rapper has released not just another mixtape, but one of his finest in recent memory. With higher...
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Download Lil B’s Task Force Mixtape
After Lil B’s properly mastered Rich After Taxes mixtape, he’s once again turned the levels all the way up, releasing his perpetually blown-out Task Force, ripe with brutally noisy cooking tracks only...
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Download Lil B’s Obama Basedgod Mixtape
Apparently self-inspired by the line Call me Obama Basedgod in February’s “I Own Swag,” America’s most tireless rapper has dedicated an entire mixtape to the electoral cycle. Demonstrating a mysterious...
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Download Beautiful Lou’s Sumone 2 B Young With Mixtape
Yesterday, San Antonio producer Beautiful Lou released Sumone 2 B Young With, a delightful compilation of old and new songs. Falling into the latter category is a fresh collaboration with Das Racist’s...
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Download Lil B’s Based Jam Mixtape
It’s been a month since Lil B’s last mixtape, a fairly long lull. Based Jam features a nice midsection of sentimental tracks like “Championship Game”—You got locked up for some shit you ain’t do/ But …...
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Download Lil B’s Frozen Based Freestyle Mixtape
Five years into this, it’s still not especially clear what “based freestyle” means. With the increasingly rare exception of storytelling-type songs—his Myspace masterpiece “Live Twice” or “I Got...
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Watch Lil B’s First Rock Video, “California Boy”
During Lil B’s lecture at NYU this spring—still readable in its entirety here—Earth’s strangest rapper announced an unexpected new project, a rock album: Regardless of me selling platinum records or me...
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Stream Merkabah 13′s 90 Percent of 13 EP
One of the greatest beats on Lil B’s magnum opus God’s Father mixtape, as I mentioned in March, was “Flowers Rise,” which samples the ethereal save screen song of the video game Ico. A few … read more »
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Download Lil B’s Illusions of Grandeur 2 Mixtape
On his new mixtape, Illusions of Grandeur 2, the sequel to one of his greatest of all time, Lil B sounds his best at his most lazy and deliberate. Maybe it’s the autumn sluggishness in … read more »
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Lil B Tries Out for the Golden State Warriors’ D-League Team
Fulfilling the promise he made in September, Lil B participated in an open tryout for the Golden State Warriors’ D-league affiliate, the Santa Cruz Warriors, yesterday at Aptos High School in...
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Download Lil B’s Halloween H20 Mixtape
Would have been cool if Lil B’s Halloween mixtape was a full-on collaboration with Salem, who produced for him on Red Flame a few years back. As it is, Halloween H20 is intermittently creepy sounding,...
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Hear the Song Lil B Made With KeKe, His Cat
KeKe, Lil B’s adopted tabby cat, stepped into the studio earlier this month to record her first song. The finished track, produced by Lil B, is built from a loop of her purring and silverware-clang …...
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A Year in Music: Duncan Cooper
Summing up a year listening to music is kind of like trying to talk about all the times you tied your shoelaces. Still, six editors at the FADER tried. Read what associate editor Duncan Cooper … read...
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The FADER Presents: Listmania 2012!
Eight Thoughts on The “Classic” Status of Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city 8. XXL: “Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut is a future classic…” 7. FACT: “Listening to the seven minute Bildungsroman...
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Lil B Just Released Another “Classical” Album, Tears 4 God
Lil B‘s wordless, self-produced, synth-noodling “classical” albums are like the just-as-tone-deaf counterpoint to his most distasteful rap lyrics, proof he’s not afraid to cook in corners unappealing...
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Video: Lil B, “I Love You”
One of Lil B’s very sweetest tracks from his best release of 2012—and one of his jumpiest cadences (And I want you to have a good night and I want you to have a good … read more »
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Hear Lil B and Joey Bada$$’s Diss Tracks at Each Other
Update 1/30/2013: “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” is Joey Bada$$’ swift response to Lil B’s diss, a freestyle over Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” instrumental, released last night. Joey uses the...
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Download Lil B’s Pink Flame Mixtape
Continuing his apparent campaign to release music at the most inopportune times, yesterday Lil B dropped Pink Flame during the Super Bowl. At 26 tracks, the mixtape is a behemoth, weirdly drawn out by...
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Download Lil B’s P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thug) Mixtape
Lil B—the rapper with gold teeth whose recent history of releasing mixtapes on weekends and days off is seeming more and more subversively intentional (rather than blissfully unaware, as I first...
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Lil B Inspires Senior Fashion Thesis Collection
Parsons, the prestigious and well-venerated fashion school in New York, counts the likes of Marc Jacobs (class of 1984) and Jack McCollough and Hernandez Lazaro of Proenza Schouler (class of 2002)...
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Download Lil B’s 100% Gutta Mixtape
Nearly two months since the release of Pretty Young Thug, a near eternity in based world, Lil B is back to steal the shine off Kanye’s release day with 100% Gutta. At 34 tracks and … read more »
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Shop the Lil B Collection at VFILES
Thank based god because now Lil B is less #rare: we already told you about Isabel Simpson-Kirsch’s senior fashion thesis collection of clothes covered with Lil B’s beautiful face for Parsons School of...
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Download suicideyear’s HAVEFUN 001 Mixtape
FADER PREMIERE With languid beats alternating between down-comforter-soft and dragging-a-razor-blade, suicideyear, the Baton Rouge teenager, is arguably the year’s most influential producer without a...
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Stream: Fredo Santana f. Lil B, “Bird Talk (Remix)”
After a spell of relative quiet, it’s starting to seem like Lil B is back. On Christmas Eve, the Based God dropped a straight up herculean 101-track mixtape called 05 Fuck Em, tracklist highlights...
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