Lil B is an artist from Northern California. He’s too busy making the world a better place, one track or tweet at a time. But the BasedGod worries not about trivial human desire and judgement. Who does Danny Brown consider to be the most influential rapper of the last 10 years ? Who popularized the use of words like ‘swag’ or ‘hyphy,’ and has had a huge hand in bringing back mixtape culture, influencing the latest generation of hip-hop artists by pure will? The answer hides in plain sight, turning away the untrained ear because of his stilted, conventionally “bad” flow or his, at times, comically fearless optimism.