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About Lil Baby

Dominique Armani Jones was born December 3, 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia and raised on the west side of the city in the neighborhoods that have anchored Atlanta hip-hop for decades. He grew up around the Oakland City and Adamsville corridors of West Atlanta, attended Booker T. Washington High School (the same high school that produced Martin Luther King Jr. and a long list of Atlanta cultural figures), and spent his late teens in the streets before a series of arrests culminated in a roughly two-year prison sentence on drug-related charges that ended around 2017. The Quality Control Music camp founded by Pierre 'Pee' Thomas and Kevin 'Coach K' Lee — the same Atlanta-based label and management operation behind Migos, Lil Yachty, and City Girls — encouraged Lil Baby to pursue music seriously upon his release, with longtime friend Young Thug and Quality Control's Coach K both publicly cited as the figures who convinced him to record. The first mixtape, Perfect Timing, dropped in April 2017, followed in close succession by Harder Than Hard later in 2017 and Too Hard to close out the year. The 2018 debut studio album Harder Than Ever produced Yes Indeed with Drake — the first major commercial breakthrough — and the Drip Too Hard single with Gunna, taken from the joint Drip Harder mixtape released in October 2018, became one of the defining rap singles of the late 2010s. Street Gossip at the end of 2018 carried Close Friends as another flagship single. The February 2020 sophomore studio album My Turn debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and ended the year as Billboard's number-one album of 2020 across every genre, an unusually dominant commercial run anchored by Woah, We Paid with 42 Dugg, Heatin Up, and the deluxe-edition expansion released later in the year. The June 2020 standalone single The Bigger Picture, released in response to the George Floyd protests and the broader Black Lives Matter movement, debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and stood as one of the most commercially successful protest singles of that summer. The June 2021 collaborative project The Voice of the Heroes with Chicago rapper Lil Durk debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and produced the title track plus Voice of the Heroes album cuts that anchored the touring routing that followed. The October 2022 third studio album It's Only Me debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with California Breeze, In a Minute, and Heyy as the flagship singles. WHAM, released in 2024, continued the catalogue and pushed the touring schedule into further North American and European routings. Beyond the solo catalogue, Lil Baby's feature run across the late 2010s and 2020s placed him on hits with Drake (Yes Indeed, Wants and Needs), DaBaby (Baby on Baby), Gunna (the entire Drip Harder catalogue), Future, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West (the Donda feature Hurricane that won the 2021 Grammy for Best Melodic Rap Performance — a Grammy shared with The Weeknd and Kanye on the same record). The Hurricane Grammy win marked his first competitive Grammy. Lil Baby operates primarily out of Atlanta and continues to record and release through Quality Control Music with Motown and Capitol distribution. The Atlanta identity, the West Atlanta neighborhood references, and the Quality Control camp dynamics remain central to the catalogue and the live show.

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