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Baby speaks on new project

DaBaby claims that he is very happy about his new reflective album How TF is This a Mixtape?, noting that it is the first time he has actually loved music after the loss of his sibling in late 2020. He stated, however, that the albums he had out during the periods in between were projects he “didn’t even care” about.

During his visit to Sway in the Morning on October 1, DaBaby’s conversation with Sway included the term “survivor’s guilt” as well as memories of his brother, Glenn Johnson, who tragically committed suicide in November 2020.

“Anything I put out from 2020, after my brother passed — anything I put out after that [until] now, anything I put out between them times, I didn’t even care about that shit,” DaBaby explained. “I was just targeting a specific audience, to generate income to keep this shit going. But this is the first time I really cared about a project.”

Baby says he declined due to his respect for the rapper

DaBaby claims that just days after J. Cole apologized for dissing back Kendrick Lamar, a “lyricist” rapper approached him with an offer to stage a feud that’ll help them grab the internet’s attention.

“Two days after the situation took place, I got a call — I won’t say from who. I got a call from a certain rapper. It’s like a lyricist, I’m sure y’all know him if I said his name. 1000 percent y’all know him,” Baby said during an interview on Shaquille O’Neal’s The Big Podcast.

“He shot me a text, he was like, ‘Hit me, you gon’ like this.’ I called him and was like, ‘What up?’ […] He like, ‘You wanna go up? How you feeling?’ I’m like, ‘What’s up? Talk to me.’

“He said, ‘All the back-and-forth between J. Cole and Kendrick got me fired up! Bruh, I feel like we should diss each other. We cool behind closed doors [but] we should diss each other. I feel like it would just go crazy.’”

“I know for a fact what that would do,” he added. “But at the same time, it’s a little more personal with me. I’m not about to say certain things about you if I don’t really feel a certain way about you.

“I told him, ‘And that’s out of respect for you.’ ‘Cause it can go either which way with me.”

Baby has seen decline in income in past few years

DaBaby acknowledges that the size of his paycheck has been on the decline. The rapper recently pulled up at Power 106 where he dropped his LA Leakers freestyle over Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” as well as Sexyy Red’s “Get It Sexy.”

On “Like That” freestyle, the North Carolina rapper shared that he used to charge $300k per future, but now the fee has halved. “Just got sent a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and did a song,” he spat. “Used to get three hundred thousand in 2020, but I’m shaking back.“

DaBaby emerges victorious in seven-figure lawsuit

DaBaby is now free from the $6M lawsuit filed three years ago that accused hun of battery, breach of contract, and defamation. According to TMZ, a jury found the North Carolina rapper on the right side of the suit filed by Kenneth Carey. The suit stems from an alleged beat down that happened in 2020.

“Along with our client, Jonathan Kirk (DaBaby), we are thrilled that this federal jury, after a five-day trial, came to the same conclusion that we have maintained for almost three years — that these plaintiffs were attempting to use the legal system to shake down Mr. Kirk,” said Drew Findling, DaBaby’s defense attorney.

He added, “Mr. Kirk deserves all the credit in the world for not caving into these plaintiffs’ cash demands and having the confidence in the facts and his legal team to take this to a jury trial for a complete and total victory!”

DaBaby fails to sell enough tickets for upcoming New Orleans show

DaBaby’s upcoming in New Orleans has been canceled after failing to sell enough tickets. According to Nola, Baby’s show was scrapped from the schedule for selling “fewer than 500 for an arena with a concert capacity of 14,000 or more.”

A message on the Ticketmaster event page reads: “Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event. No action is required to obtain a refund. It will be processed to the original method of payment used at time of purchase, once funds are received from the Event Organizer, which is usually completed within 30 days.”

“If the Event Organizer is offering a credit option, it will be visible within the Event Details of your order, which can be found in your Ticketmaster account. Please Note: If the tickets were transferred to you, the refund will go to the fan who originally purchased the tickets from Ticketmaster.”

“Somebody behind the scenes on my ass ain’t it,” DaBaby says on Instagram

DaBaby’s name appears to pop up quite often in the news for actions he probably — most likely — doesn’t want to be in the news for.  

The 30-year-old “Rockstar” rapper appears to have addressed the recently emerging footage of his 2018 Walmart shooting incident. He took to both his Twitter and Instagram. 

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“No disrespect to my boy Tyrese but what y’all n***as got going on bruh?” The rapper wrote on a video of Tyrese pleading for better results. “Somebody behind the scenes on my ass ain’t it.” 

He furthered his response on his IG story, stating, “n***as done took 30 million from me, lie on me once a week, want my fine ass BM’s to hate me, want me to lose fights I don’t start, WHAT MORE DO U WANT FROM MEEE?” He finished off by, adding laughing emojis. 

The 2018 Walmart shooting occurred in Huntsville, North Carolina, where DaBaby claimed self-defense in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Jaylin Craig. The newly emerged video from Rolling Stone has questions being raised. 

According to HotNewHipHop, the family of Craig has brought their issues to the police handling the investigation.