>>17768739>>17768208>>17768081>>17747643>>17747281>>17747030"Based" comes from Santiago "Yayo" Rodríguez[1] who was the first person to mass-market Crack in the 1980s.
He picked the method up from his brother and marketed the drug as "Based Balls"[2].
This caused "Based" to become a slang term for "retarded/out of it/weird".
Lil B is a diagnosed autist and used to be called it all his life until he forced a rebrind down the entire world's throats.
It now means
>>17768739 being yourself no matter what.
It then became "being something in accordance with a loudminority opinion" but that's very recent and besides the point.
More to the point, "Based" used to be heavily forced because it annoyed people for being Twitter lingo before becoming 4chan lingo on account of being forced enough.
[1] "Yayo" means something to the effect of "Male Elder" and is now still in use for cocaine among American Hispanics. The man himself left and is still alive and free, living out his days on the luxurious mansion he built with his crack money. He's just 60 so he might still be around for a while.
[2]Cocaine is normally acidic. If you light it, it burns. Turning it basic with baking soda lowers the boiling point so it vapourizes and can be smoked. This process is referred to as freebasing.
