Lil’ B & Chance The Rapper Unleash Stream-of-Consciousness "Based Freestyle Album," Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape)
"Nothin' leftover so I came back to the land with my homie
Lil B
and half of my bands... No sleep, stayin' up real late with my mans and out in
Chicago
droppin' sh*t off the top. They thought after
Surf
this sh*t would just stop. What's their problem? What's, what's their problem?" former
Kids These Days
affiliate and
Kanye
-influenced
Chi-town
emcee
Chance The Rapper
ferociously rhymes on
introductory bars; having previously described his 6-track
Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape)
recorded with eccentric Internet personality/rapper and motivational speaker
Lil B
as a "full-fledged album... it's a classic... it's a masterpiece."
Free
was supposedly recorded in one marathon day-long session, prior to
Chance
's performance at last month's
Pitchfork Music Festival
, with completely off the dome bars and absolutely no pre-written verses "made the moment [they] met." "
@chancetherapper
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE. BE THE FIRST TO LISTEN!!!"
exuberantly wrote upon
Free
's surprise Wednesday afternoon release, which has been self-described as a "based freestyle album."
It almost plays out like a laid-back, stream of consciousness collection of random, yet well-assembled on the fly ideas, which I would compare to a perfect organic mixture of
Chance The Rapper & Lil B
's individual styles; there are components lifted from
Chance
's mainstream, but still vaguely left-field,
Acid Rap
and
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
-assisted "debut"
mixed in with
Lil B
's seemingly infinitely prolific, self-empowering weirdo
"based"
rapping style.
Urban Dictionary
effectively defines
Lil B
's positively reclaimed term
based
as, "when you don't care what people think; it's a way of life; doing what you want; how [you] want; wearing what [you] want." While little is know about the mysterious production work and features within
Free
, like-minded
Chicago
femcee
Noname Gypsy
appears on album intro
"Last Dance"
and
Chance The Rapper
's
Social Experiment
affiliate
Nate Fox
seems to have contributed production to
"Amen."
Lil B & Chance The Rapper
's history-making
Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape)
is now available to collect... err, I mean, download for your "chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool" summertime listening pleasure on
and in turn,
.