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  • Archive Panic: To a ridiculous extent. Lil B has released 7 albums and over 40 official mixtapes, not counting an enormous number of standalone tracks. As two brave souls demonstrated, it is possible to listen to Lil B for 50 consecutive hours and barely make a dent in his complete work. His 2011 mixtape, Free Music: The MySpace Collection – comprising everything he released on that website – has 676 freestyles on it. The following year, he released the 5GB 848 Song Based Freestyle Mixtape. One Reddit user compiled everything he released up until June 2013, and it's 45GB in size.
  • Fan Nickname: The Bitch Mob or the Task Force. Note that "bitch" is not at all used pejoratively here.
  • Memetic Mutation: As an indie artist, this is his how Lil B gained exposure. However, "then I park my car, then I fuck yo' bitch" from "Wonton Soup", his "BasedGod" moniker, his "Cooking Dance", and variations of "Thank you, BasedGod" are prominent examples of memes that he has created.
    • The picture of the BasedGod on the front page tends to be one of the immediate choices for Photoshops and memes - it helps that it was Lil B's picture for at least three of his mixtapes.
    • His heavy use of the words "based", "drip", "swag", and so on have taken on a life of its own at this point, having completely homogenized into general internet slang over the course of the 10's.
    • His cursing (no not swearing, though that happened too, an ''actual'' curse) of Kevin Durant on twitter over refusing to play Lil B 1v1 anytime, anywhere, for dissing his music. While this would've normally just been a funny twitter spat, following this cursing Kevin Durant played easily his worst seasons in his career for years on end, including failing a decisive play in the NBA finals. A few years after, Lil B apologized to Kevin and lifted the curse, and somehow, he started playing better again afterwards. This has happened to other players since, and worked every time.
    KEVIN DURANT WILL NEVER WIN THE TITLE AFTER HE SAID "LIL B" IS A WACK RAPPER,
    "THE BASEDGODS CURSE"
    #THEBASEDGODSCURSE ON DURANT - Lil B
  • Misattributed Song: The Caillou Based Freestyle was by Yung God, not Lil B, as many would have you believe. However, it is still an excellent mimicry of the BasedGod's style.
  • Moment of Awesome: He dropped one of his most anticipated mixtapes, 05 Fuck Em, on Christmas Eve, a mixtape with a total of 101 songs on it.
  • Narm: Most of his songs, particularly his "cooking" songs or whenever he tries to sing, with or without auto-tune.
  • So Bad, It's Good: A lot of Lil B's music is viewed as a deliberate invokation of this trope, due to the ridiculous volume of music he releases and rhyme schemes that may appear lazy to listeners. Some songs on mixtapes like 6 Kiss and I'm God and the entirety of Illusions of Grandeur show what Lil B sounds like when seriously rapping.

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