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Pitchfork: Lil B – “Base For Your Face” [ft. Jean Grae and Phonte]

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Wrote about this totally wacky but not actually collaboration between Lil B and Phonte, Jean Grae, and 9th Wonder. For some precedent: B raps on a slurred version of 9th’s “Wonderbread” beat on “Connect The Dots” from Angels Exodus and on the latest installment of his Gorden Gartrell radio podcast, Phonte mentions that he first thought of collaborating with Lil B last year when he was planning his solo record. Total nerd stuff, but there’s also some fun rap meta-history going on here, with “Base For Your Face” sampling Flav and playing off the word “bass” the same way Public Enemy did with “Night Of The Living Baseheads.” From bass, to freebase, to #BASED, the philosophy.

Written by Brandon

March 12th, 2011 at 12:37 am

Posted in Lil B, Little Brother, Pitchfork

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