You know it’s a good great day when your morning dabbles through the interwebs results in free music from Nas. But not just any free music, or some throwaway new tracks that God’s Son absent mindedly flowed on to make his Lamborghini Aventador payment. No, today unearthed the discovery of early music from some say [...]
Interesting that Louis C.K.’s next comedy special will be on HBO, as the last show he did, Live at the Beacon Theater, he produced himself and sold it directly via his own website for $5, which he claims was a way greater financial success. I guess HBO must’ve really laid on the cash thick, like [...]
The Bay Area’s resident babble rapper Lil B returns with his latest mixtape, an ode to the upcoming Halloween holiday. Titled the Holloween H20 mixtape, it’s unknown if Lil B purposely misspelled the title or if he’s got a really baked graphic designer. The mixtape features 20 tracks of Lil B rapping stream of consciousness [...]
Subtext Gallery in San Diego is hosting artist Tim Maclean’s first solo show, Fragments & Phantoms, which opened July 14 during Comic Con. The timing makes sense given Maclean’s work plays on fantasy’s invasion of the real world, much like Comic Con itself. Fantasy stems from the mental realm, or as Maclean says, “the place where [...]
Today two of the best of the new wave of hip-hop artists dropped mixtapes — Lil B and Theophilus London. Among the top in the fresh crop of Twitter Rappers, the two albums include the Bay Area’s Lil B, aka Based God, who has compiled all his freestyle raps into one expansive encyclopedia of stream-of-consciousness babble [...]
As far as skateboarders go, you just don’t get more Rock Star than Christian Hosoi. The man was/is a legend, dwarfing all other 80s skaters with the possible exception of Tony Alva. But of course, there was a life beyond the Thrasher covers; we watch celebrities rise and fall constantly and at times, consistently. We see [...]
Oakland stream-of-consciousness lyricist Lil B drops a 20-track mixtape to commemorate his upcoming sold out lecture at New York University tomorrow. As is easily apparent via the title and cover, Lil B — aka the Based God — paid homage to Jay-Z with The Basedprint 2, and had this to say about the project: “DOWNLOAD [...]
The Bay Area’s Lil B has been steadily making a name for himself with self-promoted tracks and self-produced videos, leading the charge of Social Media Rappers. His latest mixtape, God’s Father, drops today — 34 tracks of Lil B’s “Based god”-oriented raps and stream of consciousness flows. Give it a listen below, and if you [...]
