“I don’t wanna be comin’ from where I come from all the way right here to be a nothin’,” he told Apple Music around the release of My Turn. At this point, Gunna was fully primed for a first album, and with a verse on Mariah Carey s 'Stay Long Love You,' he had even made his first big genre crossover move. By the end of 2020, he’d been nominated for a Grammy, made the chart-topping album My Turn, and was named Artist of the Year at the Apple Music Awards. Within ten months, the rapper returned beside Lil Baby with Drip Harder, which went to number four, highlighted by 'Drip Too Hard,' his first platinum-certified recording. (Young Thug, an early booster, paid him to spend time in the studio instead of the streets.) Compared to his Atlanta peers (Thug, Gunna, Migos, etc.), Baby’s persona was muted: He shrugged off fashion shows, didn’t have tattoos (he didn’t want potential business partners from the buttoned-up, white world thinking he was something he wasn’t), and kept his boasts mild: “I never call myself a G.O.A.T./I leave that love to the people,” he raps on “Emotionally Scarred.” But the lyricism was there, as were the low-key intensity and no-frills ethic that have become his hallmark. Then the work came fast: Within a year of starting to rap, he’d released six mixtapes and a full-length album, 2018’s Harder Than Ever. But two years on a possession charge gave him more time to think than he wanted.
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He’d had encouragement-Pee and Coach K, the Atlanta kingmakers/Quality Control heads who helped launch Migos, had been on him since he was a teenager hustling dice in the street-but Baby wasn’t interested.
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The story goes that Lil Baby (born Dominique Jones in 1994) didn’t even really want to rap. Intro Cook that shit up, Quay Still poppin Percocet Drankin lean too Shit I gotta deal with Chorus Caught a few cases, I been on the road but overall a nigga still free I done been robbed I.