Lil B - B.O.R (Birth of Rap)

Lil B is the straight up weirdest thing to happen to rap in forever. Oscillating almost equally between gorgeously ethereal beats that are more indebted to German ambient experimentalists Gas than The Neptunes, and trunk rattling bangers, Lil B is a genre-busting tornado of creativity. Lyrically, his songs (of which there are literally hundreds…check youtube) have just as much of a split personality. With everything from raunchy sex talk, to emo confessionals to cartoonishly positive hippie-isms, you could easily think there were dozens of dudes named Lil B out there. No matter what he’s talking about, it’s his charmingly clumsy stream-of-consciousness wordplay that really makes him stand out.