Lil B
I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.Collection: Amazing
Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.Collection: Women
I give it to The Based God who really informs me and gives me that gut instinct and the power to say who's cursed or not. It just comes from a pure place, just trying to bring peace and positivity and love and also awareness.Collection: Peace
Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence.Collection: Independence
When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.Collection: Respect
Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive.Collection: Positive
I have a song that's called 'Rap Dreams, Hoop Dreams'. Besides education, everybody's got hoop dreams from day one in rap. Rap, sports, music have so much of an impact on the world.Collection: Sports
What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you're an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from.Collection: Sports
It doesn't matter where you're from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.Collection: Education
I want people to smile when they hear my name.Collection: Smile
I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.
I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.
I want people to continue to be creative and to value creativity.
Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art.
I give it all to Based God, I'm just putting stuff together that the Based God gives me.
The Warriors are a lifestyle. I love every Warrior that stayed. They represented Oakland with pride. I love the Warriors. I love Oakland. I love the people.
I just like to see and put out what I think is beautiful. And put my swag on it, and my style, and how I feel.
Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.
I can't make Based God music all the time. The Based God is something that is better than Lil B and better than Brandon McCartney; he's something that I aspire to be.
I was always a good athlete. I just gave up on football.
I followed the 1.2 million people with my hand. Never faked anything. Never bought any followers or anything like that. So anything on my social media is a hundred percent real.
I appreciate women so much. I think the part that they play is that I just admire women. I love every part of the woman. I think the woman is what is amazing.
An artist should appreciate anybody that appreciates their art because really bro, without people I can't do anything.
After I started based freestyling. Just spending a lot of time learning about myself and entering a higher level within my mind. I was exploring my mind, and I ended up finding the Based God.
My favorite player in the league is Klay Thompson.
In order to get new things to rap about, you've gotta live.
I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.
I'm a real guy. I'm not money-laundering. I make money off music, and music is my source of income. It feels good. I'm not selling T-shirts, I'm not doing none of that other crap. Straight music.
I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it.
I definitely see myself as as much a feminist as I can try to be. I know I'm not perfect, but I definitely feel the connection with women. I feel them.
If I can really sustain myself and become a powerful entity on the internet, it'll transfer into real life. So right now I'm putting everything into the net.
I'm a human sacrifice. I put myself out there for the people, and hopefully they take the good and the positivity from that.
I actually got an invite from the 87ers, the D-League affiliate for the 76ers.
Now, is Lil B jealous of Kevin Durant on the basketball court? Hmm. Maybe. Maybe not. I love basketball. Do I wish I could play in front of all those people everyday, all day? Of course. I love basketball.
I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.
I don't have any contracts, so I don't have to split any money up. That was my main thing - just making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking care of Lil B. Just learning to survive, for myself and as a human in America.
I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me. My place in hip-hop is really to just connect and show positivity. Put my vibe out there.
Everything, for me, is fueled off telling my story through music, because I have a lot to say, and it's some urgent things that I have to tell to the world, and help and heal. I know my part that I have to do through music.
When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.
On 'Platinum Flame,' I engineered the beats myself, so I produced and engineered them. So this is getting even truer to myself, how I truly feel.
I really like Damian Lillard, I like Iman Shumpert's raps, Stephen Jackson, Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant. Those are my favorite ones. I like Lonzo Ball, don't know about him as a rapper yet, but I know he's cool.
I'll stand for the anthem, I don't have a problem standing for it.
I decided to make one of the most controversial songs that I could. I want to get under people's skin.
I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.
I like the Bay Area because it's very diverse, and I'm in touch with the people.
When I was younger, I was thinking of ways I could get respect so people wouldn't bother me. I was down for whatever. I ended up going to juvenile hall, facing a good amount of time for a first-time offense.
So I got a lot of music because it's all different. I'm not just one side. I wanna show you the good, the bad, and the ugly. I wanna be as truthful as I can because I love music.
Clams's music to me is where there's no boundaries. It was just exciting for my mind to be as free as Clams's music is.
Me and Clams have always kept it organic with the way we work. It's just always the right time. It's never no pressure. He always comes through if I need him. I always come through if he needs me, and we always meet at that right time.
I can joke around and do what I want and be great in my area and play around and be the best, but when I'm with Clams, he's the greatest and amazing, so I'm going to make sure I do what I've got to do.