Lil B Quotes

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Lil B

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 17, 1989

I want people to smile when they hear my name.

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Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

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When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.

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Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive.

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It doesn't matter where you're from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.

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I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

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I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.

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I just like to see and put out what I think is beautiful. And put my swag on it, and my style, and how I feel.

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I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.

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Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence.

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I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

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What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you're an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from.

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I want people to continue to be creative and to value creativity.

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I can joke around and do what I want and be great in my area and play around and be the best, but when I'm with Clams, he's the greatest and amazing, so I'm going to make sure I do what I've got to do.

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I don't have any contracts, so I don't have to split any money up. That was my main thing - just making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking care of Lil B. Just learning to survive, for myself and as a human in America.

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If I can really sustain myself and become a powerful entity on the internet, it'll transfer into real life. So right now I'm putting everything into the net.

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Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.

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I have a song that's called 'Rap Dreams, Hoop Dreams'. Besides education, everybody's got hoop dreams from day one in rap. Rap, sports, music have so much of an impact on the world.

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Me and Clams have always kept it organic with the way we work. It's just always the right time. It's never no pressure. He always comes through if I need him. I always come through if he needs me, and we always meet at that right time.

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I give it to The Based God who really informs me and gives me that gut instinct and the power to say who's cursed or not. It just comes from a pure place, just trying to bring peace and positivity and love and also awareness.

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