If you're intrigued by Lil B but shrink from the commitment of keeping pace with a human data stream, it might be the only record you'll ever need. That's not to say that I'm Gay contains all of Lil B's personae. The album finds him securely in his dazed, child-like observer mode, where he peers at the world as if for the first time and wonders aloud. He has many other faces- occasional boom-bap traditionalist, tweaker of boom-bap traditionalism, uncomfortably personal YouTube diarist- but this side is easily B's most relatable and endearing. The production, by frequent collaborators Clams Casino, 9th Wonder, and others, reinforces the mood of naive reverie: 'Gon Be Okay' samples an orchestral flourish from the soundtrack to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, while 'Unchain Me' is built on a loop of 'Cry Little Sister' from The Lost Boys soundtrack. 'I Hate Myself' is a woozy, pitched-down loop of Goo Goo Doll's 'Iris' in which the drums hit like down pillows.