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The homie Meka's Lil B writeup on XXL.
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[h2]Lil B… Good For Hip Hop[/h2]
NEW Monday May 17 4:29 PM CDT posted by Meka
I’ve been called many things, but lately I’ve been referred to as a surly individual. However there’s one thing not many people know about me: I’m a fan of all things silly/light-hearted/quasi-******ed. Take Ray J, for instance. He may come across as some venereal disease-ridden, so-called smooth operator who inexplicably tagged Kim Kardashian, but when I see him I think of little Willie Norwood a/k/a the kid who used to get chased around the locker room after PE class to avoid catching fades from the bullies back when we were short-lived classmates in junior high.
And that’s the thing with hip hop; most of the public personas we all see are nothing more than that. Unfortunately, we’ve spend so much time on those representatives that most of us never know of the other sides of that proverbial coin. Think about it: most of youse by now think I’m some reclusive hermit teetering on the edge of destitution who relies on half-assed posts as my primary source of income.
If this was 2007 and I was still writing for the good ship Amistad, you may have been right.
A few years ago I was one of those elitist type of rapster fans that felt that anything minutely unintelligent was blasphemous to the culture of hip hop. But as I got older and more cynical I realized that most of the nignorance abound in rap should be taken with a grain of salt. So I find it rather humorous that a person like Lil B from The Pack could be taken serious in rap’s hipster/half-$+@ hardcore humdinger. When some friends introduced me to his stuff a few months – particularly his magnum opus “Like A Martian