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The Game Calls Lil B the “Wackest Rapper of All-Time”

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Posted by Andrew Unterberger on 08/16/2011 at 12:36 PM Videos

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“There are no more rivalries in hip-hop,” wrote Vassar professor Hua Hsu recently in a Grantland piece on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne. “Where discord and beef were once the reason to root and take sides and argue at length, today we only have the Game dissing everyone in sight.” It’s true that Game often seems like the Last Angry Man of hip-hop, hurling grenades in every which direction on dis tracks like “300 Bars and Running” and the recent “Uncle Otis.” Jayceon may be the only rapper left who still sees value in the time-honored practice of talking shit about another artist, in the interest of either establishing a genre hierarchy, bringing out the gunslinger in both artists, or just creating publicity and drumming up interest for a new release. (R.E.D. Album in stores August 23rd!)

Anyway, most recent on the docket for Game is fellow California rapper Lil B. In a recent interview with the notorious DJ Vlad, Game was asked who he considers the wackest rapper of all-time, and after a moment’s consideration, he deemed the Based God worthy of the honors. “I heard him on Wayne’s Sorry for the Wait, and that was it,” declared Game. “I never even heard really anything else [by him] that I could even remember to call it wack, but I remember I heard that, and then…that’s what it was, man.” (For his part, Vlad said that while he had a personal relationship with B, he agreed that the appearance on Sorry 4 the Wait was indeed the wackness.)

We’re a little bit disappointed in The Game—not so much for calling B out, but for failing to recognize that Lil B isn’t really comparable to other rappers today. Calling him the wackest rapper in the game is like calling James Franco the wackest soap opera actor on TV—he’s so obviously playing by his own set of rules that he can’t really be judged by conventional metrics. You listen to his verse on Wayne’s “Grove St. Party” freestyle and see if you can come to any sort of conclusion about its quality.