2011’s Best Overall Underrated Album: Lil B the Based God - Free Music

As has been previously documented, Wale’s 11/1/11, in being given single releases alongside Ambition has pretty much allowed Maybach Music Group to render the illusion of the free mixtape era entirely invalid. Another “mixtape,” Bay Area griot of instantaneous experiences Lil B’s 676 song Free Music accomplished this is a far more absurd manner.

Lil B’s strength is his greatest mainstream weakness. He’s already a mega-talented superstar in the arenas of his mind, a childlike simplicity dominating his stream of consciousness raps, though what lends him validity and importance is that he isn’t entertaining imaginary friends, he’s the voice of a very human generation. Kids and honesty seeking adults alike fully believe that what’s happening inside the based god’s head is likely the closest thing to unadorned truth in the present generation.

In 676 songs, snippets and speeches scored by music, Lil B waxes poetic on honest and immediate ambition, oftentimes silly, trending towards ignorant, but fully celebratory of the redundant, self-aggrandizing dullard that our id made sentient is guilty of trending toward.