Once I got on Instagram, I started realizing that the caption was more important than the picture. From second to third grade, I always been into writing a good story. I could imagine and really write a story about whatever. LIL BABY: Language arts was one of my favorite classes. If you believe, you can achieve.ĪP: When did you realize you was good with formulating words together? LIL BABY: When I look at everything I had to endure and the process, I think about when I was just sitting in a prison cell to now I’m living in a pad in California.

Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.ĪP: You’ve overcome being a high school dropout and bounced back from serving time in prison. 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. We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got We've got five years.“I knew Baby had a hustler’s spirit,” Thomas says. Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in News guy wept and told us, he said earth was really dying Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies There were boys, toys, electric irons and t.v.'s My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people A girl my age went off her head Hit some tiny children If the black hadn't a-pulled her off I think she would have killed them A soldier with a broken arm Use to stare to the wheels of a cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest And a queer threw up at the sight of that Well think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour Drinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine, Don't think you knew you were in this song And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there Your face, your race, the way that you talk I miss you, you're beautiful.

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