A look at hip-hop's (supposedly) petite class.
Lil Scrappy explains the origins of his name: "The hood gave me the nickname Lil Scrappy, you know what I'm saying...I was always having an attitude going around bustin' n***as over their shit."
(Yeah, we know what you're saying.)
Some people actually find it kind of annoying! The "Lil" thing has become so big (har har har...) that Masta Ace and Edo. G even wrote a whole diss track about it.
The ambassadors of "real hip-hop" made a whole song (and hilarious music video) in 2009 devoted to taking down the Lils, called "Little Young."
Unlike that rapper Lil' 1/2 Dead, you lil' bastards
Your lil' rhymes and lil' lines they fillin' in
Big Ed O, lil' rappers I'm belittlin'.
