Amoeba Music Shop Fires Shots At "Lil" Rappers By Placing Them All Together

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An exterior view of Amoeba Music May 16, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA
Amoeba Music has no time for rapper's unoriginality with their names.

Imagine making a section in your store for every single "Lil" rapper in the world. While not many people purchase physical copies of their music anymore, Amoeba Music still operates on a daily basis in Los Angeles, welcoming visitors from around the world to cop vintage records from the landmark. You may remember that one of the first golden Travis Scott heads that popped up in anticipation of Astroworld was actually atop the famous record store. The staff at Amoeba decided to have some fun today, echoing many people's sentiments by calling for more originality with rap names as they classified ever "Lil" rapper in one section at the shop.

Shout-out to the Hip Hop Heads sub on Reddit for taking a photo of the display, which features a few physical copies of Lil Pump's self-titled project and an album by Lil Scrappy. Curiously, Lil Yachty ended up getting his own dedicated section directly below it. Perhaps one of the employees is a Lil Boat fan?

In their defense, it has gotten pretty out of hand how the majority of rappers have "Lil" as a prefix in their names. Whether this was a conscious piece of commentary by the store or they just didn't have the room to make one section for each artist, you've got to admit it's kind of funny.

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<b>Managing Editor</b> <!--BR--> Alex Zidel began working at HotNewHipHop as a Staff Writer in February 2018 before becoming the Managing Editor in June 2019. <strong>Favorite Hip Hop Artists:</strong> Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Young Thug, Frank Ocean.
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