Grab your spatula! Could 'based' Lil B be the next big thing?

Self-styled Based God's homemade videos – of varying quality – are all over YouTube, but is America ready for Beat poetry-style hip-hop, with its own 'cooking dance'?Is Lil B, as the New York Times claims, "a folk hero of the rap counterculture"? Is he, as Vice Magazine put it, "the most revolutionary MC of the last 15 years"? Or is he, as one YouTube commentator reckons, "a grotesque testament not only to the current state of rap music but also to the steady, inevitable decline of western s...

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