Lil Baby is a popular rapper and songwriter from the United States. His real name is Dominique Armani Jones. After his mixtape Perfect Timing was released in 2017, he became known.
Harder Than Ever, his debut studio album, was released in May 2018 as his career took off. That same year he was featured on the Adult Swim TV show FishCenter Live.
Baby has won two awards: one from BET and one from the Grammys. He was named Most Popular All-Genre Artist of the Year at the 2020 Apple Music Awards.
Little Baby’s parents are Lashawn Jones, a single mother, and
On December 3, 1994, Lil Baby was born in Atlanta, Georgia to his parents. He is now 27 years old.
From the age of two, he and his two sisters were raised by their single mother, Lashawn Jones, in the Oakland City area.
Baby is very close to his uncle who helped him study and grow. The other thing is that he doesn’t even know who his father is.
Mrs. Lashwan worked hard to meet the needs of her children. It was difficult for her to raise three children on her own.
However, she had a good helper in the form of her sister Sadonna Grimes, who was Lil Baby’s aunt and lived next door.
Dominique loves his mom very much and always thanks her. He was photographed with his mother at the 2021 Billboard Awards.
Lil Baby has two children with wife Jayda Cheaves and baby mom Ayesha Howard
Lil Baby has two sons, Jason and Loyal, although he is still young. The rapper occasionally posts pictures of cute boys on his Instagram account.
Dominique and Ayesha Howard, his ex-girlfriend, dated for two years. In 2015 they had their first child, Jason, and also started a good job together.
The two people, who used to date, split shortly after the birth of their child. Howard recently said in a statement that dating the rapper left her with “emotional scars.”
Howard, the mother of the rapper’s eldest son, seems to be grappling with the fallout of their breakup, which can be hard to come to terms with.
She’s often been in the news for rumors that she and Dominique are back together. This time, however, she rose to fame with a few tweets she sent out about dating after breaking up with Dominique.
After he and Ayesha split, he was linked to model Jayad Cheaves. They also worked on the music video “Close Friends”.
On February 18, 2019, baby LA (Loyal) was born to the rapper and the woman who will soon be his wife. In 2022 her son will be three years old.
Untrapped: The Lil Baby Story shows how rapper Dominique Armani Jones’ life has changed
Karam Gill’s documentary Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby is about American rapper Dominique Armani Jones, also known as “Lil Baby”. The film is about Baby’s background and his rise to fame. It will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on August 26th.
Dominique, Blase Biello, Daniel Malikjar, Andrew Primavera, Pierre “P” Thomas and Kevin “Coach K” Lee co-directed the 93-minute documentary.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, 2022, and the official trailer for the documentary was released on July 13.
Drake, a Canadian rapper, starred in the film. He said, “Lil Baby has already established itself as a very important part of this generation.”
early years
Dominique Jones was born in the Oakland City borough of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. His father left the family when he was two years old, leaving his mother to take care of him and his two sisters. Jones dropped out of Booker T. Washington High School when he was in ninth grade and decided to sell drugs.
Jones was charged in early 2012 with possession with intent to sell and in 2013 with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. In 2014, he was arrested for the third time in as many years for intended possession of marijuana for sale. For this crime he spent two years in prison.
Career
2015-2018: New jobs and more work than ever
By the age of 17, Lil Baby was a regular drug dealer at Quality Control Records’ Atlanta studio. The label’s founder, Kevin “Coach K” Lee, thought Baby had “the swag, the lingo and the respect around town” to be a rapper, so he encouraged Baby to do it. Young Thug and Gunna, who are also rappers, helped Baby develop his style. Lil Baby’s first mixtape, Perfect Timing, was released in April 2017. Young Thug and Lil Yachty were both on it. Three months later, he released another mixtape called Harder Than Hard. In October, he released 2 The Hard Way, a mixtape he made with his friend and Atlanta rapper, Marlo. His fourth mixtape, Too Hard, was released in December. It was spearheaded by his hit single “Freestyle” and its accompanying music video. The RIAA gave the record a gold rating in February 2020.
In May 2018, Baby released his debut studio album, Harder Than Ever, as his career took off. It was number three on the US Billboard 200 when it came out. The singles “Southside” and “Yes Indeed” (featuring Drake) promoted the album. “Yes Indeed” peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. Lil Uzi Vert and Gunna’s song “Life Goes On” peaked at number 74 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2017, Lil Baby started his own record label called 4 Pockets Full (abbreviated 4PF). The label has signed rap artists 42 Dugg and Rylo Rodriguez.
Drip Harder and Street Gossip for 2018-2019
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Following the release of Harder Than Ever, Lil Baby and Gunna released the mixtape Drip Harder on October 5, 2018. “Drip Too Hard,” the album’s lead single, was later certified 9 platinum by the RIAA[18] and 4x platinum from Music Canada. The song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. The mixtape was released on the Quality Control, YSL Records and Motown/Capitol labels.
In September 2018, Baby was featured on the TV show FishCenter Live on Adult Swim. His mixtape, Street Gossip, was released in November 2018. In December 2018, Baby and Yung Gravy collaborated on Yung Gravy’s single Alley Oop.
He starred in the 2019 film How High 2, which is a sequel to the 2001 stoner film How High. It premiered on MTV on April 20, 2019. “Out the Mud,” a song by Baby and Future, was released on June 21, 2019. Lil Baby and DaBaby were both featured on the song “Baby,” which was released July 17, 2019 on Quality Control’s second studio album, Control the Streets, Volume 2, came out on the Hot 100 was number 21.
On November 8, 2019, Baby’s second studio album “My Turn” received its first single “Woah”.
[26] The highest the song reached on the Billboard Hot 100 was No. 15. Baby was featured on YouTuber KSI’s song “Down Like That” with Rick Ross and British producer SX, and he performed it for KSL’s 2018 boxing match against Logan Paul. [needs citation] On November 15, 2019, Baby released “Catch the Sun,” a song from the movie Queen & Slim. The song later surfaced on My Turn.
2020 to present: My Turn and The Voice of the Heroes
Lil Baby’s second album single “Sum 2 Prove” was released on January 10, 2020. It peaked at number 16 on the Hot 100. The album “My Turn” was released on February 28, 2020 and in its first week on the US Billboard 200 chart was at First place. Gunna, 42 Dugg, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Wayne, Moneybagg Yo, Young Thug and Rylo Rodriguez all make an appearance as guests. With 12 songs from My Turn on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, he now has 47 songs on the chart, the same number as Prince and Paul McCartney. After the deluxe version of the album was released on May 1, My Turn was back at the top of the Billboard 200. Lil Baby’s political song “The Bigger Picture” was released on June 12, 2020 during the George Floyd protests. The song also debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Lil Baby’s highest-charting song as a lead artist. His song “We Paid” with 42 Dugg on the deluxe album My Turn also reached #10 on the Hot 100. Pop Smoke’s song “For the Night” from his posthumous debut album Shoot for the Stars is “Aim for”. the Moon, had Lil Baby on it in July 2020. The song reached #6 on the Hot 100 chart. The RIAA awarded My Turn double platinum certification in September 2020, making it the first album of the year to receive the honor. At the 63rd Grammy Awards, “The Bigger Picture” was up for two awards: Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
Lil Baby sang “The Bigger Picture” at the Grammy Awards on March 14, 2021, and most people loved it. The next day, “Wants and Needs,” another song he co-wrote with Drake, hit number two on the Hot 100. Jones’ song “The Bigger Picture” surpassed an earlier peak and made its debut, making it his song with the highest charts of all time.
The Voice of the Heroes, an album co-made by Lil Baby and Lil Durk, was released on June 4, 2021. The album went straight to the top of the Billboard 200 chart.
Drake’s sixth studio album, Certified Lover Boy, was released in September 2021. The song “Girls Want Girls” from that album had Lil Baby on it. The song also debuted and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, earning “Wants and Needs” as Baby’s highest-charting song overall.
“Do We Have a Problem?” came out on February 4, 2022. It was a collaboration with Nicki Minaj and had a music video with the two in it.
[36] On March 2, 2022, J. Cole’s Dreamville 2022 Music Festival announced that Lil Baby would be one of the headliners.
Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby is a documentary about Lil Baby. It was directed by Karam Gill and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, 2022.