5/19/2023 0 Comments Bigger picture lil babyFellow rappers Young Thug and Gunna served as Baby's mentors in developing his style. Label founder Kevin "Coach K" Lee encouraged him to become a rapper, as he felt Baby had "the swag. Career 2015–2018: Career beginnings and Harder Than EverĪt age seventeen, Lil Baby was a regular presence in the studio of Atlanta-based Quality Control Records as a drug dealer. In 2014, he was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to sell, and was incarcerated for two years. In 2013, was charged with possession of marijuana of less than an ounce. In early 2012, he was charged for possession with intent to sell, among other charges. Washington High School in ninth grade and committed to drug dealing. His mother raised him and his two sisters. He was two years old when his father left the family. Jones was born and raised in the Oakland City neighborhood in southwestern Atlanta, Georgia. 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. His feature on the song " Hurricane" by Kanye West, alongside The Weeknd, won him the Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance. He 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. 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. 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. His second studio album, My Turn (2020), reached #1 on the Billboard 200 and is certified triple-platinum by the RIAA. 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 debut studio album, Harder Than Ever (2018), spawned the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single " Yes Indeed" (with Drake). He rose to mainstream fame in 2017 following the release of his mixtape Perfect Timing. Dominique Armani Jones (born December 3, 1994), known professionally as Lil Baby, is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia.
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