DaBaby pulled a surprise release with his latest album Baby On Baby 2 arriving last week.
The sequel project is expected to sell about 16,000 total album-equivalent units and debut outside the Billboard 200’s top 20, which would be the lowest of his career, according to Akademiks.
DaBaby reacted to the disappointing chart placement saying that, while he is still proud of his positioning, he believes he’s been “blackballed” by the music industry following his homophobic rant last year and the album having no promo.
“Not bad for DaBlackBalled Baby,” he wrote to his Instagram Story on Wednesday (September 28).
Akademiks subscribes to the theory that Baby is being blackballed and he pinned blame on the likes of his foe Ebro Darden and Apple Music for being able to control an artist’s popularity.
“Da Baby last project in 2020 ‘Blame it on Baby’ sold 124K first week,” he wrote. “His new project after being blackballed by Ebro, Apple Music is scheduled to do less than 20K. Now yall understand my Ebro convo…. DSPs control who is hot and who is not. Fall out of favor with them.. UR DONE.”
Ebro got wind of Ak’s comments and responded on Wednesday night and he said artists look to blame the platforms when things are going poorly for them and give them no credit when they’re hot.
“Funny shit, when artists get hot it is always how they built this themselves and the fans. When shit slows down it is radio, DJs, platforms and the label. #BlameEbro is back for a whole new generation.
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“Apple Music is not the only platform. Based on this dummy’s logic, Da Baby should be doing well on the platform HE works for. Is it?”
He continued: “Im confused… Im old and irrelevant. No one listens to my shows. But why am I always being brought up by people who are ‘more powerful’ and ‘doing more for the culture’ as the reason things don’t perform? Somebody lying!”
Regardless of his album sales situation, DaBaby is still set to hit the road in late October for a North American tour where he’ll be making stops in Minneapolis, Detroit, NYC, Boston, Houston, Cincinnati, Nashville, Atlanta and more.
I dont even know why billboard still exists in the digital era. Its kinda pointless
when youtube is free and spotify is also free. In this economy, how many teenagers are gonna spend $5.99-7.99 to “buy” 10-15 music files that they can hear for free.
I guess cause the free streaming also brings revenue for the artist and labels that’s why,so they look for a way to culminate it to a kinda chart position on the billboard… It’s a bit healthy too.. cause billboard charts bring in some kinda Competition which is healthy for the Game… It’s just that they gotta try to keep that shit as fair as possible…
I get your point but Spotify and YouTube streams count.
The Flop Is Real
Unfortunately the homo community has gained alot of power and influence in the entertainment industry. Everyone is required to bow down to their evil agenda
He said “has gained.” Like it hasn’t been a thing since the 80’s. There are certain groups you can’t make jokes about, others are fair game for some reason. This idiot DaBabyis REAL dumb. I mean… his name is Da Baby. Grown ass man mind you.
Damn that’s gotta suck tho. Even SnitchNine outsold him with his last album. Guess bashing the gays and trash talking a horse didn’t workout so well. The LBGTQ Community and PETA are on his ass right now to cancel his ass.
Or… hear me out… it could be… that his music sucks.
LMAOOOOOOOO YOU GOT ME DEAD AT TRASH TALKING A HORSE AND PETA ON HIS ASS IM DEAD ☠️
Dababy simply isn’t hot anymore. He music is no longer relevant.
Why was he popular to begin with?
bcoz brand new lamborghini fuk a cop car pistol never let a real nibba rokstar
Nobody really knows
maybe its because all his music sounds the same.
Or just maybe his music just isn’t that good! Just my two cents.
Stay up Baby. We got you.
You can’t rap. You talked shit about gay people and your handlers turned their backs on you. Next!
Aside from this, when was the last time he released any good music?
A 3rd grade education rapper is crying for help. You are not a rapper. Be gone!carry
Artists make more money off concerts than sales anyway right? Either way, hopefully he’s got investments making money for him if his music career fades out completely.
TIRED ASS FLOW. SHIT HAPPENS.
pink mafia is out to get him
Maybe drop a project with French you dummy
Ebro is 100% right. But besides that, I feel Da Baby put out 3 albums in little over a year. That’s a lot of music even in this microwave era. They all sound alike. Where’s the growth musically? Yeah his public antics aren’t helping, but fans no longer care about that, they just want good music. Dropping a surprise album isn’t a good strategy for everyone. I think just sit back, stay out of trouble, drop a few singles, and features and come out with a 5 song album for the spring/summer then see what happens.
Da baby is not that good!!! Never was!!!! Nobody needs alot of music from a garbage artist. Hip hop is so bad these days. Let’s get another album from Lloyd Banks!!!! His albums are always good. No more Drake or Megan the Stallion.
There’s not really many rap superstars anymore… if any. They all act like it but they’re barely “famous”. Most people don’t recognize these names and faces unless you’re in a really specific small age group. 20 years ago even your grandpa knew who Eminem and Jay-Z were. These days even if they are the same age as DaBaby… you got people asking Da who?
Facts and that is a sad thing. Kendrick, Cole and Drake are the only ones who come close to that, but nobody from the current gen… maybe because of all the R&b and pop crossovers… maybe because ppl dont respect lyricists anymore with th fast food internet culture … maybe we just in a dark age and rap will resurrect. Lets hope so
Or maybe shit is over saturated. Too many rappers out there. Dababy, lil baby, nba young boy, Kodak black, and every 19 year old in the streets
U ryt. King Tekashi da only one missing from dat list.
He looks like a go.rilla.
Nobody is coming to that tour. I can’t wait for the fallout from that