• sarsaparilyptus@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Crack = freebasing cocaine = base.
    Bay Area rapper Lil B used to be insulted by people who called him “based”, essentially meaning crackhead. He reappropriated it to mean outspokenly being yourself while actively disregarding what anybody else thinks, and started also going by Based God. That’s it.