DaBaby is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina. After releasing several mixtapes between 2014 and 2018, DaBaby rose to mainstream prominence in 2019.
His debut studio album Baby on Baby (2019) peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200, while his second studio album, Kirk (2019), debuted at number one. The albums produced the Billboard Hot 100 hit singles “Suge”, “Intro”, and “Bop”. His third studio album, Blame It on Baby (2020), became his second consecutive number-one album in the US. It also produced DaBaby’s highest-charting song, “Rockstar” featuring Roddy Ricch, which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
At the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, held in 2020, DaBaby received two nominations, both for “Suge”, in the categories Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. On April 13, 2020, he announced on Twitter that his third studio album, Blame It on Baby, would be released on April 17, 2020. The album received mixed to positive reviews, but achieved commercial success, debuting atop the Billboard 200 with 124,000 album-equivalent units, becoming DaBaby’s second number-one album.[15] It also produced DaBaby’s highest-charting song, “Rockstar”, featuring Roddy Ricch, which has spent seven weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, and reached number-one in the United Kingdom.
In June, DaBaby was featured on the remix for the Jack Harlow’s song, “Whats Poppin”, which peaked at number two on the Hot 100 while “Rockstar” was still at the top. This made DaBaby the 20th act to occupy the chart’s top 2 positions, and the first since Ariana Grande in 2019. In July, DaBaby was featured on “For the Night” by Pop Smoke and Lil Baby, which debuted at number six on the Hot 100. As a result, DaBaby became the seventh act to chart at least three songs in the top six simultaneously.
On July 27, DaBaby released a new single with his signee Stunna 4 Vegas, titled “No Dribble”, included on the deluxe edition of Blame It on Baby, which was released on August 4, 2020, and described by DaBaby as a “brand new album”.
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