Clams Casino, on the other hand, has gone from bedroom producer to professional musician, lending the experimental production style he developed in a Nutley, N.J., basement to artists like A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd, Blood Orange, FKA Twigs and Vince Staples.Ĭlams' debut album is appropriately titled 32 Levels, a nod to the song that put him on the map. Nearly seven years after the release of that seminal song, Lil B has gone from internet phenomenon to cultural icon and curser of basketball players - a character who has transcended his own music. Clams Casino and the dreamy sound of the 'cloud rap' subgenre it spawned would influence hip-hop, R&B and even pop music in the 2010s. Welcome to my world.' When rapper Lil B uttered those words on his 2009 track ' I ' m God,' he couldn't have known that the song its producer Michael Volpe, a.k.a. 'The mind is so complex when you're based.
