DaBaby was featured on the cover of XXL's Freshman Class of 2019.ĭaBaby featured on various hit songs throughout mid-2019, including Megan Thee Stallion's "Cash Shit" and Quality Control's "Baby", both of which reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. Kirk's song "Suge", debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 87 on the chart dated April 13, 2019, and later reached the top 10, on the chart dated June 8, 2019. Baby on Baby debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States. The thirteen-track project features guest appearances from Offset, Rich Homie Quan, Rich the Kid and Stunna 4 Vegas. He is also signed to South Coast Music Group and has a joint contract with both labels. On March 1, 2019, Kirk's debut studio album Baby on Baby, was released via Interscope Records. He later followed this up with his God's Work mixtape series, Baby Talk mixtape series, Billion Dollar Baby, and Back on My Baby Jesus Sh*t. In 2015, DaBaby, known as Baby Jesus at the time, started off his music career by releasing Nonfiction, his debut mixtape. He attended and graduated from Vance High School in 2010. However, he moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1999, where he would spend most of his early years. And while you can’t go outside, at least here’s a reason to want to stay in.Jonathan Lyndale Kirk was born on December 21, 1991, in Cleveland, Ohio. All three artists are doing the thing they do best, giving the song a timeless durability. The vintage R&B notes add a sensualness to the sex. More inspired is having Ashanti play off a sample of her 2002 cut “Baby” on the chorus. In that way, Baby and Meg, who originally collaborated on “Cash Shit,” is an obvious marriage.
The album is full of lascivious lines-it’s Baby, after all-but the sexual apex comes on the penultimate track, “NASTY.” Where Baby’s lyrics about women are often one-sided, on “NASTY” he re-teams with Megan Thee Stallion, who is more than his match when it comes to dirty talk (him: “She like when I pull it out and I put it all over her ass cheeks” her: “I put one leg on the headboard and leave the other leg on the mattress”). There’s plenty of pleasure to be taken purely from Baby’s theatrics-“JUMP” is another high-flying vault-but the greatest pleasure on BLAME IT ON BABY comes when the young playboy gets carnal.
“Bitch, you know I turn piss into lemonade / Turn shit into sugar, that's chocolate pudding,” off “CAN’T STOP,” is a personal favorite. On early tracks like “PICK UP,” “LIGHTSKIN SHIT,” and “TALK ABOUT IT,” he sticks to his winning formula: turning out clever rhymes about sex and stunting in the consistent rhythm of a healthy EKG. The 28-year-old hops along like the Energizer Bunny, recapturing the same zippy vibrancy of last year’s Baby On Baby and KIRK.įans of Baby’s ear-crossing vocal dribbling will find plenty to like on BLAME IT ON BABY. The opening track is titled “CAN’T STOP,” and whether he can or can’t, he doesn’t. BLAME IT ON BABY is the recently minted superstar’s third album in 13 months-each a tight 13 tracks-and on it, he shows no signs of fatigue. But most impressively, DaBaby is indefatigable. He’s a nimble spitter, whose trademark delivery emerges in rapid, springy jabs. With the major sports leagues on indefinite hiatus, listening to DaBaby rap proves to be the next best thing.
Thankfully, though, rather than reflect the moment in his new music, Baby provides a brief diversion. Its cover is blue, and it features a face-masked DaBaby looking down, dejected.
DaBaby’s new album, BLAME IT ON BABY, has the look of a quarantine album (an emergent genre, for better or worse).