The American Music Award for Icon was first introduced on the American Music Awards of 2013.
 Producer Larry Klein explained that the "Icon Award was created to honor an artist whose body of work has made a profound influence over pop music on a global level".
 The first winner was Barbadian singer Rihanna.
Rain in England is an album by American rapper Lil B, released on the label Weird Forest on September 21, 2010.
 Produced by Lil B under his persona "The Based God", "Rain in England" is unusual for the hip hop genre because it has no percussive beats.
 Instead, Lil B raps over new-age-style synthesizer music.
 The lyrical style, which finds Lil B speaking on topics like family, love and death, has been noted for its sincerity and reflectiveness.
American music artist Marvin Gaye released 25 studio albums, 4 live albums, 1 soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums and 83 singles.
 In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown.
 The first release under the label was "The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye".
 Gaye's first album to chart was a duet album with Mary Wells titled "Together", peaking at number forty-two on the Billboard pop album chart.
 His 1965 album, "Moods of Marvin Gaye", became his first album to reach the top ten of the R&B album charts and spawned four hit singles.
 Gaye recorded more than thirty hit singles for Motown throughout the 1960s, becoming established as "the Prince of Motown".
 Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, "M.P.G.", became his first number one R&B album.
 Gaye's landmark album, 1971's "What's Going On" became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track.
 His 1973 single, "Let's Get It On", topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts becoming his most successful Motown album to date.
 In 1982, after 21 years with Motown, Gaye signed with Columbia Records and issued "Midnight Love", which included his most successful single to date, "Sexual Healing".
 Following his death in 1984, three albums were released posthumously while some of Gaye's landmark works were re-issued.
Victoria "Vicki" Vann (born Victoria Araceli Denise Vann Turnbough, July 14, 1980) is an American country music artist, model and actress.
 Her father was born in Mississippi and was one of the original founding members of the Grammy Award Winning Gospel Group, Mighty Clouds of Joy.
 Her mother, whose family origin is of Native American and German descent worked as a print model for print ads as well as television.
 Vicki Vann is often referred to as the Cinderella of country music and was chosen to appear as a featured artist in a Country Music Television documentary called "Waiting in the Wings."
 The documentary focuses on the ongoing struggles of the African American music artists in the country music industry.
Brandon Christopher McCartney (born August 17, 1989), professionally known as Lil B and as his alter ego The BasedGod, is an American rapper from Berkeley, California.
 Lil B has recorded both solo and with The Pack.
 His solo work spans several genres, including hip hop, new age, indie rock and choral music.
 He describes his work as "based", a term which denotes a lifestyle of positivity and tolerance.
 He is noted for his extensive use of social media to build an online following.
 He has released a variety of albums and mixtapes, including "Rain in England" (2010).
Farid Karam Nassar (born June 23, 1972), better known as Fredwreck, is an Palestinian American music artist and record producer.
 He got his big break when he became a producer for Dr. Dre's newly founded record label Aftermath Entertainment, and then went on to work with Snoop Dogg's record label Dogghouse Records (now Doggystyle Records) and became a known producer on Tha Dogg Pound-affiliated material.
 He has produced tracks from Kurupt's Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha and most of his next release, ; both released during the period the rapper had left Death Row Records.
 He has also produced for other hip-hop and pop artists such as Eminem, Britney Spears, Ice Cube, Westside Connection, Lil' Kim, Hilary Duff, Xzibit, The Game, Nate Dogg, Everlast, Cypress Hill, 50 Cent, Mobb Deep, as well as non-US acts such as Dizzie Rascal, Tamer Hosny, Qusai and Karl Wolf.
Downtown music is a subdivision of American music, closely related to experimental music.
 The scene the term describes began in 1960, when Yoko Ono, one of the early Fluxus artists, opened her loft at 112 Chambers Street, in a part of Lower Manhattan later named Tribeca, to be used as a performance space for a series curated by La Monte Young and Richard Maxfield.
 Prior to this, most classical music performances in New York City occurred "uptown" around the areas that the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center and Columbia University would soon occupy.
 Ono's gesture led to a new performance tradition of informal performances in nontraditional venues such as lofts and converted industrial spaces, involving music much more experimental than that of the more conventional modern classical series Uptown.
 Spaces in Manhattan that supported Downtown music from the 1960s on included the Judson Memorial Church, The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette, the Knitting Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, Tonic, the Gas Station, the Paula Cooper Gallery, and others.
 Brooklyn Academy of Music has also shown a predilection for composers from the Downtown scene.
Stuart Pflaum, better known as DJ Xplosive is an American music industry figure and digital music pioneer.
 Pflaum was born on June 29, 1981 in Nashville, TN (age 35).
 Based in New York City, Pflaum previously worked as consultant to street teams and lifestyle promotions at Asylum Records and Warner Music Group.
"Swing Ya Rag" is a song by American hip hop recording artist T.I., released August 26, 2008 as the third single from his highly acclaimed sixth studio album "Paper Trail" (2008).
 The song features vocals and instrumental production from American music producer Swizz Beatz, who raps the chorus.
 T.I. performed the song at the 2008 BET Hip Hop Awards and at the 2009 New Year's Eve Special on NBC.
 The song is also featured in the 2009 video game expansion pack, .
Robert "Rob" Redding, Jr. (born January 13, 1976) is an American media proprietor, award-winning radio talk show host, political commentator, independent journalist, a best-selling American author, a best-selling American music artist and songwriter, visual artist and social entrepreneur.
 Redding is known as the founder and publisher of "Redding News Review" and host of a talk radio show and podcast.
 In 2003, he was among few blacks to be named to Talkers Magazine's "100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" and has received a proclamation for his work by the Atlanta City Council the same year.
 He made history being the only black program director in white-dominated talk radio station in 2009.
 His web site Redding News Review has earned three consecutive Black Web Awards.
 He currently runs the web's oldest black news aggregation outlet and first and most successful stand-alone subscriber-based web site and talk show.

Question: Which American music artist who raps over synthesizer music describes his work as "based", a term which denotes a lifestyle of positivity and tolerance? 
Answer: Lil B