I can say that I don’t want to go to work and have all the time in the world for them. That’s the only problem I have in life: Finding time with my kids. I want to be there, but I want to build this legacy. ![]() LIL BABY: Everything is great, except me being in this position, I just don’t have enough time as I want. How do you juggle being a rap star and father of two boys? I’ll be around.ĪP: You were singing to your son over FaceTime. I got my team trying to come up with a show around that. My momma is trying to come up with a show about the pressure that rap moms have to go through - to be a parent of someone in hip-hop. My baby mother and her friends, they got like a TV show on BET, “The Impact: Atlanta.” I co-produce that. LIL BABY: I’ve been telling my team to put something together for a cartoon. You give it how you imagine.ĪP: Anything you want to do outside of rap? You don’t have to be direct and say exactly what happened. And then be able to come back and make it into a song. You can go out there and do something - good, bad, wrong. You got to get it how you live, but it’s a finesse. But I ain’t advertising or applauding the people who are actually going out here on nonsense and putting it in their songs. It’s a strong battle in that right now.Īs a rapper and a person, I’m leaning more towards decriminalizing lyrics, so it’s doesn’t get brought up in court. It’s also (expletives) wrong for putting stuff in your music that you’re actually doing. It’s dead (expletive) wrong to try to use your lyrics and convict you of something you’re just saying. But I think it’s a catch with this lyric thing. Gavin Newsom recently signed the decriminalizing artistic expression act. But now, I have to be very mindful, because I know as much as people who are listening to what I’m saying is a critic.ĪP: In California, Gov. You can go as far as you want to take it. We’re used to saying a lot of stuff that’s not true, that didn’t happen. I’m scared for someone who would try to make something that’s not. But with everything going on, I ain’t going to say that. I can say something crazy that I never did. Let that be the reason.ĪP: Are you more conscious of your lyrics now? This is a time when we got to do what we to get through this situation. It kind of (expletive) with your insanity a little bit.ĪP: Since you communicate with Thug the most, what advice have you given him? But I’m also seeing people in jail when I know it’s not what it is. They could be painting the same picture to me. To know the picture that they are painting isn’t really them. I know what they’re doing and what they are not to a certain extent. It’s the fact that I know the situation of where we are and what we’ve overcome. If I think about it too much, I get deep into it. It’s one of those things I try to keep off my mind. I haven’t been talking to Gunna as much, but I talk to Thug often. ![]() LIL BABY: It honestly kind of (expletive) me up, like on a day-to-day. … I’m not going to drop a deluxe.ĪP: Your friends Young Thug and Gunna have been jailed since May in a criminal racketeering case. It’s almost really going on three (years). But I haven’t put nothing out in two years. LIL BABY: I could’ve put 15 songs out and just added seven more songs then put out another album. ![]() Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity. In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Lil Baby opened up about decriminalizing rap lyrics, his friends Young Thug and Gunna who are currently locked up in a RICO criminal case and his third studio album “It’s Only Me,” which releases Friday. Earlier this year, he won a Grammy in the best melodic rap performance category for Kanye West’s “Hurricane,” which also featured The Weeknd. He’s worked with some of music’s best including Future, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne. He won over listeners through his infectious singles like “Drip Too Hard,” “We Paid” and “Yes Indeed” with Drake. But once he made it a priority, he rose to remarkable success. Lil Baby, 27, initially wasn’t hard pressed to rap. I just knew if he transferred all that energy, he was going to grind all the way to the top.” He’s got that hustler’s mentality of the first one getting up and last one going to sleep. “All he had to do was transfer his energy from whatever he was doing to the music. “I knew Baby had a hustler’s spirit,” Thomas says. He was released in 2016 after being incarcerated on a drug charge and had no intention of starting a rap career until Quality Control founders Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “P” Thomas saw tremendous potential. would have been unfathomable several years ago. LOS ANGELES (AP) - While Lil Baby’s new album blares loudly in the living room, the Atlanta-born rapper stands in the kitchen of his $20 million Bel Air home singing to his son, who dances along on FaceTime.įor Lil Baby, living in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the U.S.
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