A few years back, Baltimore rapper Lil B went on a Twitter tirade dedicated to trolling Post Malone, and it didn’t sit well with the rapper and actor. It isn’t clear why “The Base God”  dedicated Oct. 6th, 2017 to roasting Malone, but the tweets touched on everything from girth to attire to appropriation and questioned his hip-hop authenticity. Malone thought Lil B’s Twitter account was hacked and told Billboard the rant seemed “out of character” for Lil B, who is characteristically positive and empathetic.

To be fair, Malone doesn’t consider himself to be a rapper. In a 2018 GQ interview, he admits he isn’t genre-specific but more of a mesh of hip-hop and country. Lil B is also guilty of mixing genres, having dabbled in choral, indie-rock, and New-age music during his long career. Lil B eventually apologized for going in on Posty, but one has to wonder whether there’s an element of animosity embedded in his trolling

For instance, one Twitter post said Post Malone would pull a Miley Cyrus in a few years, referring to Miley Cyrus’ cultural voyeurism during her hip hop phase. She capitalized on twerking, then criticized the very culture she appropriated in a 2017 Billboard interview. This doesn’t appear to be about melanin content because he praised Eminem as the “only good white rapper,” so perhaps he feels Malone simply doesn’t deserve the recognition or fame. Lil B was on the scene a full decade before Malone materialized and is a prolific, established lyricist who has yet to receive the same level of accolades, and maybe he is resentful of that.

Will Lil B collaborate with Post Malone ever again?

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