Lil Baby is closing out an already extremely productive and rewarding April with his third new song of the month, “Frozen.” The song is centered around a melancholic piano loop that wafts around cymbal ticks and handclaps that feel practically delicate compared to the booming, bruised bass hits. The track …
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Lil Baby performed “Emotionally Scarred” from his new album My Turn at the 2020 American Music Awards on Sunday. Baby kicked off the track sitting in a leather chair as a therapist in a mask jotted down notes and he dropped bars. “I’m emotionally scarred, that ain’t even your fault,” …
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DaBaby‘s “Rockstar” spent a sixth straight week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. The SethInTheKitchen-produced single, which features the rising star Roddy Ricch, earned 26 million streams. While DaBaby extended his summer reign on the RS 100, all 19 songs from Pop Smoke‘s posthumous album …
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“I’m on my way, I’m going fast,” Lil Baby promised us on his debut single“My Dawg.”The Atlanta rapper was describing his excitement to get home and have sex, Three years later, the line could just as easily stand as the perfect epigraph for the breakneck speed at which has career …
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In March, my editor and I joked on Slack about the proliferation of the name “Baby” in rap right now. That conversation quickly turned into the piece, “The Best Rappers in the World Are Babies.” From there, the headline spun off into an in-magazine graph, incessant questions from social media …
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