Video: Lil B Makes a Movie
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
By now you are either completely sick of Lil B’s copious Tweeting, totally into it or totally oblivious. However you look at it, he’s successfully experimenting with the murky world of free media. Why not release hundreds of songs on various MySpace pages? Why not write a book? Why not, at only 19-years-old, have a movie filmed about yourself and then release a five minute trailer to accompany it? Truthfully, if Lil B is trying to match his completely out there weirdness with actual song quality, he hasn’t quite reached his apex, but in terms of tirelessly devoting every waking moment to documenting his excursion from being just that one dude who was in The Pack to completely candid weirdo, he’s nailed it.
Video: Lil B, “Oprah Winfrey”
- story THE FADER
For the past month or two, it has been difficult for one particular editor to get any work done because a friend continually IMs links to anything Lil B (formerly?) of The Pack does. Sometimes it’ll be a ridiculous post on his Twitter about looking at an old man’s penis in the showers at the gym. Or maybe it will be a link to one of the incoherent rambles of a song on one of his hundred or so MySpace pages (google them yourself) which have sadly convinced us that Lil B must be either addicted to marijuana, mentally ill or both. This has fogged our enjoyment of his music, as it seems to be coming from a deranged mind, but this song and “video” for his track “Oprah Winfrey” is, for better or worse, undeniable. I’m in your book club/ ain’t that funny/ ain’t that funny that I love reading books. Actually, yes, when you put it that way it is. Get well soon.
Gang Gang Dance Moves On From Grime, Now Into Slightly Dated Bay Area Rap
- story THE FADER
Listening to the audio of last week’s Gang Gang Dance MoMA performance we heard something a little peculiar. First we thought it was Rosemary’s baby but then we realized it was just The Pack. For about a minute, they played over a highly-slowed and scary-ized version of “Vans.” “Got my Vans but they look like sneakers,” remember? Can someone add this to The Breaks for us? Check the excerpt below.
Stream: Gang Gang Pack
