Lil Baby’s “best year ever” still makes him adverse to being famous and receiving high praise from his peers.
The 2020 winner of HipHopDX’s Rapper of the Year award is on the cover of NME and during an extensive interview covering topics such as his rise, the “genius” of Young Thug and working with Kanye West, the Quality Control rapper explained his focus is all about life, not all of the attention from his success.
“[I get] like maximum attention now,” he told the outlet. “To me it’s not about the fame game – it’s more about real life. I’ve not been famous that long, so I’m not too wrapped up in the fame game. I can’t say [fame is] something I want or don’t want because I just believe it goes with what’s going on. If this is what comes with it, I’m with it.”
After previously stating he never wanted to be a rapper, Baby racked up the accolades in 2020, releasing rap’s only double-platinum album of the year, My Turn. earning two Grammy Award nominations for “The Bigger Picture” and praise from predecessors such as Lil Wayne and Meek Mill. However, the heaping of praise doesn’t shift his perspective when it comes to rapping.
“I ain’t going to say I don’t care because I do care, but it doesn’t really rock my world to hear that kind of stuff,” he said. “I try not to let some stuff get to my head so I don’t get a big head and fall off track. I take it in but, kind of don’t take it in.”
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Too much going on in the world to worry about this mess for real. For God sakes this woman can say what the hell she wants in her damn songs as everyone else does. What is wrong with light skinned anything. Did the same mess to Chris Brown because he dates light women so what the hell does that mean you can’t stop people from liking what they like. Stop trying to make people feel some type of way over dumb shit anyway.
Rapper? I don’t think so. Singer? Maybe he’s up there. I’m not trying to knock his hustle and success, but he is not a rapper.
Dummy he not the best freestyler but he a rapper for sure. He bout that shit too lmaoo?
I wonder what you listen to as rap then, y’all be crazy out here, a singer!? Lmao
Shows the absolute shambles rap is in when lil baby saw as the biggest.
who picked him for rapper of year? take away the auto tune then what? but respect the hustle
He was rapper of the year unless you don’t know what rap is
Some of y’all are so quick to judge, make a fuckn research first, haven’t you watched him sing live, like even when he rapped on his birthday bm birthday, there was so shitty ass auto tune and he still sounded same
Y’all really hating at least he ain’t switch up like the rest of them hell he for black people and he showing he is for the people by the people he real and yallto damn blind to see it
I love his music and I’m 60 years old!!!!