Brandon Christopher McCartney (born August 17, 1989), known professionally as Lil B and Lil B The BasedGod, is an American rapper. He began his career as a member of the

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-based hip hop group the Pack in 2005, who signed with

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's Up All Nite Records, an imprint of

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the following year. The group became best known for their hit song "

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" — their sole entry on ''Billboard'' Hot 100 — and released two studio albums before disbanding in 2010. McCartney's extensive use of

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has yielded his solo career and online persona has yielded a

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. His work spans several genres, including

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and

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. He calls his alter ego the BasedGod, and is credited with having coined the slang term "

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" — which originally denoted a lifestyle of positivity, impudence or boldness. By the late 2010s, the phrase has since been used to describe stances or actions that negate

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Early life

McCartney was born on August 17, 1989, in

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, California, and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. He adopted the name Lil B, and began rapping at age 15 with

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based hip hop group The Pack. After two locally successful mixtapes, at the peak of the Bay Area's hyphy movement, the group's song "

" became a surprise hit. The song was ranked as the fifth best of 2006 by ''

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'' magazine. The strength of "Vans" led the group to release the ''

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'' EP, featuring a "Vans" remix with Bay Area rappers

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and Mistah F.A.B. In 2007, McCartney and The Pack released their first album, ''

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''.

Career

2009–2010: Solo success and collaborations

On September 24, 2009, McCartney released his first

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, ''I'm Thraxx'', via independent label Permanent Marks. On December 22, 2009, McCartney released his second digital album, '' 6 Kiss'', to critical reception. On March 25, 2010, McCartney released his debut mixtape ''Dior Paint''. On April 3, 2010, McCartney officially signed to fellow artist

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's label SODMG Entertainment. On May 7, 2010, McCartney released a mixtape entitled ''Base World Pt. 1''. On July 5, 2010, McCartney released a collaboration mixtape with

entitled ''Pretty Boy Millionaires''. McCartney had recorded over 1,500 tracks as of July 2010, including hits "Like A Martian", "Wonton Soup", "Pretty Bitch", " I'm God", all of which were released for free. On September 21, 2010, McCartney released his debut studio album, '' Rain in England'', through Weird Forest Records; it was described by ''

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'' as "a beatless, Beat poetry-style set where McCartney, voice a-quiver with earnestness, ponders love, beauty and all the bad things in the world over naïf new-age synth washes".

2010–present: Mixtapes

On December 29, 2010, it was announced and confirmed that McCartney signed an album deal with

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. On July 10, 2011, McCartney released the EP ''Paint'', through his label BasedWorld Records. On January 18, 2011, McCartney released his fourth digital album entitled '' Angels Exodus'', through Amalgam Digital. On April 14, 2011, McCartney announced that his next album would be entitled ''I'm Gay'', which caused a degree of controversy. On June 29, 2011, McCartney released his fifth digital album, ''

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'', through Amalgam Digital; the album entered the ''Billboard''

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chart at number 56 and the

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chart at number 20 for the week of July 16, 2011. On May 17, 2012, McCartney released his first instrumental album, '' Choices and Flowers'', under the alias "The Basedgod". On September 16, 2012, McCartney released a

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single entitled " California Boy". On December 30, 2012, McCartney released his second instrumental album entitled ''Tears 4 God'', also under the alias "The Basedgod". On December 24, 2013, McCartney released the mixtape '' 05 Fuck Em'', which contained 101 songs. On June 1, 2014, McCartney released a mixtape entitled ''

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'', which would be known for containing a track entitled "F*ck KD" that called out

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player

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. On October 14, 2014, McCartney released the ''Ultimate Bitch'' mixtape, featuring the song " No Black Person Is Ugly." On July 19, 2015, McCartney and

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announced that they had recorded a collaborative mixtape. It was released as '' Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape)'' on August 5. Later that year, on December 30, McCartney released the 63-track mixtape '' Thugged Out Pissed Off''. In 2017, McCartney was featured on

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's remix of their song "Come First". On August 17, 2017, McCartney released '' Black Ken'', describing it as his "first official mixtape." The mixtape reached number 24 on the

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chart and number 44 on the

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chart for the week of September 2, 2017. In June 2022, McCartney released ''Frozen'' and ''The Frozen Tape''. In August, he released ''Thraxxx Kiss'', a collaboration with producer Keyboard Kid. McCartney released '' Afrikantis'', a

album, on December 22, 2022.

Artistry

McCartney and music critics refer to his rapping style as "based", a word that McCartney also uses to describe a positive, bold lifestyle. "Based" is a reclaimed word, as described by McCartney in ''

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'':

Rapping technique

''Slate'' columnist Jonah Weiner labeled him as one of a "growing number of weird-o emcees", calling him a "brilliantly warped, post-

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from the

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". Musical critic Willy Staley described McCartney's work as "variegated", because it ranges from critical parodies of the hip-hop genre to "half new age, half spoken word". He further notes that McCartney draws from a large variety of genres, especially those not commonly used by other rappers. In an interview with Staley, McCartney agrees with this analysis, saying, "I can do 'Swag OD' but then my favorite musical artist right now could be

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. That's the difference between me and these other rappers, and other musical artists in general."

Other ventures

Author

''Takin' Over by Imposing the Positive!'' is a book written by McCartney and published through Kele Publishing in 2009. The book is a collection of and written in the form of e-mails and text messages, and is written in such a way that the author is e-mailing the reader. Subjects include positivity, optimism, and living what he calls a "Based Lifestyle". The book was passed out in an unscripted NYU lecture in March 2012. On March 30, 2013, McCartney announced that he was in the process of writing his second book.

Motivational speaker

McCartney has given motivational lectures at several colleges, including

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and

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. They are generally focused around his personal experience in life and current events. On May 28, 2015, the rapper gave a lecture at

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, where he touched on subjects like money, the media, technology, space, awareness, and love.

Basedmoji and vegEMOJI apps

McCartney launched the "Basedmoji" app on January 16, 2015. On January 17, 2015, McCartney released "vegEMOJI", in cooperation with vegan company "Follow Your Heart". Despite the fact that McCartney is not a

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, he has stated that he is cutting down on his consumption of processed foods, and that he is "ashamed of eating meat".

Personal life

On January 16, 2015, McCartney's apartment building in

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, caught on fire early in the morning on Thursday after an electrical fire spread through the building. McCartney and six other people were saved by 15-year-old Mateo Ysmael, who ran through the building to wake everyone up. For the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he endorsed

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Senator

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, citing his civil rights record. McCartney has asked multiple women for pictures of their feet, hands, chests, and thighs, with "I love Lil B" written on it. One

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post had people asking for the woman's age, with McCartney responding: "That's grown woman with her own place and fam she taking care of". It is not known if the woman is a legal adult. In 2018, McCartney sent private Twitter messages to a 17-year-old, asking for pictures of her body with "I love Lil B" written on it, failing to ask for her age. Other young women came forward, saying they were asked for pictures to post on his Twitter and

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Feuds

Joe Budden

In 2010, a number of exchanges between McCartney and

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were had over

. Budden had been seeming to speak mockingly about McCartney's "Based" movement and his tweets, to which McCartney responded, initially friendly but then with insults. McCartney went on to release a diss track called "T Shirts & Buddens", which was then featured on his "Everything Based" mixtape. McCartney later apologized for his insults and noted his respect for Budden, calling him a "legend".

The Game

In 2011, after hearing a verse from McCartney on the Lil Wayne mixtape ''

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'', Compton rapper

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referred to McCartney as the "wackest rapper of all time." McCartney responded by calling Game "irrelevant," to which Game then threatened to knock out McCartney. Game targeted McCartney in his verse in his track "Martians vs Goblins" featuring

and

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, with the line "Tie McCartney up to a tank full of propane, swag, now watch him cook". McCartney addressed this on his track "Tank of Propaine" on his "White Flame" mixtape. Several weeks later, the two settled their differences through Twitter after which McCartney urged fans to purchase Game's ''

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''.

Joey Bada$$

McCartney took offense to the lyrics in the song "Survival Tactics" by late rapper

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, a founding member of the group

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. In this, he raps, "They say hard work pays off / Well, tell the BasedGod don't quit his day job." McCartney responded with a song titled "I'm The Bada$$".

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then responded with a song titled "Don't Quit Your Day Job!" When the feud became public on Twitter, Joey became a target of a lot of attacks from McCartney's fans, which ended up with Joey deleting his Twitter account, though restoring it later. In an interview with

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, Joey Badass denied that he deleted his Twitter account because of McCartney's fans. Later, in an interview with VladTV, Joey admitted the feud was created for publicity, and admitted he's a fan of McCartney's more serious work.

Kevin Durant

In 2011,

superstar

tweeted his befuddlement with McCartney's popularity, and McCartney responded by "cursing" Durant that he would never win the NBA championship. The curse had been rescinded in 2012 but then reinstated in 2014. The feud between the two has simmered since then, resulting in McCartney releasing the diss track " Fuck KD" in 2014 and a commercial on

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, where McCartney calls out Kevin Durant. McCartney has claimed the "curse of the Based God" to be responsible for Durant and his

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team's loss to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals of the

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. The Thunder had been up 3 games to 1 in a best-of-7 series, but then went on to lose the series in stunning fashion after losing the next 3 games in a row. On July 4, 2016, following the announcement of Durant leaving the Thunder for the

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, McCartney rescinded the curse again. Durant proceeded to win NBA Championships the following two years, in

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James Harden

During the Western Conference Finals of the

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, McCartney began questioning NBA superstar

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's "cooking dance", a dance allegedly coined by McCartney which he had been doing all season long, and tweeted that if he doesn't receive an answer from Harden regarding that dance then Harden will receive the "Based God curse" similar to Kevin Durant. McCartney attributed the

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loss to the

with the score of 99–98 in Game 2, and again in Game 3 with the score of 115–80, to the curse. On May 24, 2015, McCartney announced on '' TMZ Sports'' that he has placed Harden under the "Based God curse" for the remainder of the playoffs and until further notice. On May 27, 2015, McCartney was present at

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for Game 5 where the Warriors ultimately defeated the Rockets with the score of 104–90, becoming the Western Conference champions. Additionally, during this same game Harden set an NBA Playoff record of 13 turnovers, prompting McCartney to publicly consider lifting the curse. On June 4, 2017, McCartney announced on a live taping of '' First Take'' that he has lifted the curse from Harden.

A Boogie wit da Hoodie and PnB Rock

At the 2017 Rolling Loud Bay Area festival, McCartney was forced to cancel his set due to an alleged altercation with

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backstage. Upon taking the stage to announce the cancellation of his set, he told the crowd he was attacked by "A Boogie and his whole crew" and that his equipment was also stolen, attributing the event to his criticism of New York hip hop in a recent Tweet. Footage of the altercation subsequently surfaced, and McCartney fans immediately expressed outrage on social media. Witnesses backstage also accused

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of being involved in the attack. Despite the incident, McCartney maintained a positive stance and even urged his supporters to forgive A Boogie later that day on Twitter. The incident led to an immediate wave of support of McCartney from fans and other figures in the music industry.

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and

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, fellow performers at the festival, expressed their support for the rapper upon taking the stage for their respective sets. Other artists including

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, and Mike Dean also expressed their support of the rapper on social media. Amidst the fallout of the incident, PnB Rock was pulled from the festival's lineup and replaced by Kreayshawn. McCartney and A Boogie officially ended the feud two days later, through a phone call initiated by Kilo Curt of the late Mac Dre's

Thizz Entertainment Thizz Entertainment is a Sacramento-based, originally independent record label, started in 1999 by rapper and music producer Andre Hicks, who was professionally known as Mac Dre, a poster child of the hyphy movement that swept through the Bay Ar ...

. Both artists took to Twitter to announce the end of the feud.

Selected discography

* '' 6 Kiss'' (2009) * '' Rain in England'' (2010) * '' Angels Exodus'' (2011) * ''

'' (2011) * '' Choices and Flowers'' (2012) * ''Tears 4 God'' (2012)

References

External links

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Lil B's mixtapes at DatPiff.com
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