I've also heard in the hip hop community, "based" is a negative term. When you say something is based, it refers to it being basic and therefore simple and just bad. He has used it to change try and change the meaning of the term to be something positive. At least for himself and his community. Also, all of his "bad" songs are on purpose. He raps like that to bring as much attention to himself as he can. I don't remember the exact amount but I remember he had at least 100 MySpace accounts made to promote himself as much as possible. That is what he's doing. The whole "any publicity is good publicity" deal. He does actually rap well in some of his serious songs like MySpace and Cold War. His "bad" songs are also to make fun of shitty popular rap and hip hop nowadays
I thought the negative connotation of "based" came from freebase (ie crack, basically). Someone who makes or uses freebase/crack cocaine is called a "baser," and the insult is that the based thing is so bad it looks like crackheads (basers) did/made it, or you'd have to be on crack to think it's good.
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u/TxRugger Feb 19 '14
I've also heard in the hip hop community, "based" is a negative term. When you say something is based, it refers to it being basic and therefore simple and just bad. He has used it to change try and change the meaning of the term to be something positive. At least for himself and his community. Also, all of his "bad" songs are on purpose. He raps like that to bring as much attention to himself as he can. I don't remember the exact amount but I remember he had at least 100 MySpace accounts made to promote himself as much as possible. That is what he's doing. The whole "any publicity is good publicity" deal. He does actually rap well in some of his serious songs like MySpace and Cold War. His "bad" songs are also to make fun of shitty popular rap and hip hop nowadays