![]() ![]() Lil Baby and DaBaby performed the song at the 2019 BET Hip-Hop Awards, where DaBaby also won the award for Best New Artist. The song debuted at number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, and eventually rose to number 21 off of the release of the album and the music video. As February 2021 the video has over 100 million views. It shows Lil Baby & DaBaby in scenes from the movie Scarface. ![]() The music video was released on August 13, 2019, three days before the release of the album. Weingarten, in review of the song's parent album, recommended it as a go-to-track, from "two of the most important rappers of 2019" and labelled it as "something that may portend rap's near future". SPIN magazine's Israel Daramola described the track as "a quaint record that delivers on its promise of showcasing all the two Babys have to offer us", while Christoper R. Robert Blair of HotNewHipHop ranked DaBaby's verse on the song as his fifth best of 2019, noting how Lil Baby "handles the more melodic facets of the track" while DaBaby "comes through with a gripping verse that makes audacious claims of ' Baby gettin ' jiggy, on stage with the Glizzy/Baby CEO, he shake the game like he Diddy'". HipHopDX called the collaboration "a match made in heaven", and in their album review, commended Wheezy's production as "magical stepping stones for Lil Baby to lay his verse as he boasts about still hanging out in the projects and DaBaby smashes on the beat equally, while both maintain their own unique way of rhyming". "Baby" received acclaim from music critics. The word "baby" is said a total of 37 times throughout the 2 and a half-minute track. He raps his rags-to-riches come-up from a third-person perspective with an "infectious hook". He claims that though he has become a millionaire he still spends time in the " projects". In the song, Lil Baby references fellow Atlanta rapper, Bankroll Fresh, who was murdered in 2016. ![]()
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