Thugged Out Pissed Off

After releasing 41 mixtapes between 2010 and 2013, Lil B's musical output began to diminish significantly.^[1][2] In 2015, he released only 1 mixtape—Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape), a 6-song collaboration with Chance the Rapper^[1]—as he took the year to focus more on his personal life.^[3] Speaking on his inactivity, Lil B told the East Bay Express that he was adopting a slower, more deliberate songwriting process, as part of an effort to make his music "more accessible". This marked a departure from his earlier work, which had been dominated by freestyles.^[2]

While writing Thugged Out Pissed Off, Lil B was inspired by the hardships he experienced throughout 2015.^[2] In January, his apartment building caught fire, damaging some of his music.^[2][4] He also faced the death of fellow Bay Area rapper The Jacka as well as one of his friends. Leading up to the mixtape's release, Lil B said that it touched on a wide range of topics, and hoped it would speak to people from marginalized communities.^[2]

A hip hop mixtape,^[5] Thugged Out Pissed Off consists of 63 tracks and has a runtime of nearly four hours. Compared to Lil B's previous work, it features more cynical themes and darker production. The mixtape's lyrics mainly center around poverty and crime, although Lil B avoids moralizing.^[6] Thugged Out Pissed Off begins with "Come to the Waterfront Intro", which features a sample of Giorgio Moroder's Scarface theme. Writing for Pitchfork, Winston Cook-Wilson commented that the song "sets the mood for the tape pretty well".^[5]

The eighth track "With Me" features triumphant singing, which Cook-Wilson compared to the musician Tiny Tim.^[5] The song "BasedGod" is a remix of "Jumpman" by rappers Drake and Future.^[7] The thirteenth song, "I Was Born Poor", sees Lil B murmuring about his ancestry over a beat that features cymbals and sitar samples.^[5] "4 Tha Record", the sixteenth song on the mixtape, is a diss track directed at Canadian singer The Weeknd.^[8][9] On "Finess Em", the twenty-third song, Lil B raps about his come-up over a soul sample.^[6] The Southern rap beat of the following track, "Soul Food", is also built around a sample of a bluesy guitar line.^[10][11] On the song, Lil B raps about his aspirations and struggles.^[10] On the final track, "I Can't Breath", Lil B speaks out against racism, rape, censorship, and gun violence. The song's title is a reference to the last words of Eric Garner, a man killed by police in 2014.^[12][13]

Lil B announced Thugged Out Pissed Off on October 30, 2014. He released the single "Child Support Me" alongside a music video, although it was not included on the final track listing.^[14] On May 31, 2015, Lil B released "Soul Food" as Thugged Out Pissed Off's first single.^[15] An accompanying music video also premiered, in which he rides a mountain bike and puts dollar bills in a washing machine.^[16] "4 Tha Record" was released alongside a music video as the mixtape's second single on November 1, 2015.^[9] A few months later, on March 1, 2016, Lil B apologized to The Weeknd for releasing the song. In an interview with ILY magazine, he said that he regretted the diss after The Weeknd unfollowed him on Twitter.^[17]

On November 5, 2015, Lil B released "Flexin Maury Povich" as the mixtape's third single with an accompanying music video.^[18] He released the fourth single, "BasedGod ('Jumpman Remix')", on December 28. This single was also released alongside a music video, in which the song's producer, Metro Boomin, appears.^[7] Thugged Out Pissed Off was self-released^[5] to the mixtape-sharing platform DatPiff on December 30, 2015.^[19] It was uploaded to streaming services in April 2018.^[20]