Very well written article breaking down Lil’ B. NPR is generally on point with their music editorials. I’m waiting for a OFWGKTA break-down from them as well.

“For his part, Lil B seems to revel in the hatred. “I decided to make one of the most controversial songs that I could,” he told me when he first declared himself God two years ago. “I want to get under people’s skin.” Trafficking in shock value is certainly not new terrain for hip-hop — rappers from NWA to Eminem made their trade in alarming concerned parent groups and Tipper Gore types — but Lil B might be the first to purposely offend people within the hip-hop cohort.

He gleefully tears down the remaining tenets of hip-hop conservatism, illuminating the growing generation gap in a genre that is approaching its fourth decade of existence. Many of Lil B’s listeners are the children of the children who grew up on NWA’s rebellion, so they invert it. This new generation wears obtrusively skinny pants as a logical counterpoint to their parent’s oversized baggy jeans. On record, Lil B proudly calls himself “a princess” and “a f*****” as a flip side to the hyper-masculinity and lingering homophobia of the past generation.”