Lil Baby
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| Website | iamlilbaby.com |
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Dominique Armani Jones (born December 3, 1994), known professionally as Lil Baby, is an American rapper. He rose to mainstream fame in 2017 following the release of his mixtape Perfect Timing. His debut studio album, Harder Than Ever (2018), spawned the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single "Yes Indeed" (with Drake). In 2018, he released two more mixtapes: Drip Harder (with Gunna), which contained the single, "Drip Too Hard", that reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was later certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); and Street Gossip, which reached #2 on the US Billboard 200.
His second studio album, My Turn (2020), reached #1 on the Billboard 200 and is certified triple-platinum by the RIAA. The album spawned the singles, "We Paid" (with 42 Dugg) and "The Bigger Picture", both of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2021, Lil Baby and rapper Lil Durk released the collaborative album The Voice of the Heroes, which became Lil Baby's second #1 Billboard 200 project. He also collaborated with Drake on the songs "Wants and Needs", and "Girls Want Girls", and with Nicki Minaj on the 2022 single "Do We Have a Problem?", all three of which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
His feature on the song "Hurricane" by Kanye West, alongside The Weeknd, won him the Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance. In addition to his Grammy Award, Lil Baby has received an MTV Video Music Award, and two BET Awards; and was crowned the biggest all-genre Artist of the Year at the Apple Music Awards 2020.
Early life
Jones was born in Atlanta, Georgia in the Oakland City neighborhood. He was two years old when his father left the family, leaving his mother to raise him and his two sisters. He dropped out of Booker T. Washington High School in ninth grade and committed to drug dealing. In early 2012, he was charged for possession with intent to sell, among other charges; and in 2013 was charged with possession of marijuana of less than an ounce. He was arrested for the third time in as many years in 2014, on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to sell, and was incarcerated for two years.
