Lil Baby recently spoke candidly about the impact his early success had on his mental health.
Lil Baby says that he struggled to find happiness for a long time early in his career, telling The Experience Podcast‘s Big Loon that he was in a “dark spot.” Baby reflected on his career path while appearing on the show, earlier this week.
“There was a long time, I wasn’t happy,” Baby admitted. “I had a lot of shit I was going through. Getting adjusted to this shit, changing, having to stop being around people I’m used to being around, doing shit I used to be doing. Like, this is over time, I feel — and I know I can adapt to any environment. So it was just like, adapting to my new environment put me in a dark spot for a minute.”
From there, Baby explained that adjusting to fame felt like starting his life over: “Really starting everything over, all the way down to your thoughts. That shit can kinda fuck with you. Now you really gotta tell yourself, ‘You can’t think like that no more.’ That shit can be a little depressing.”
Baby also says that his desire to get better is what keeps him grounded as he becomes more and more successful.
“I see how [people] can get blurry,” he explained. “And that’s because they finally getting everything they wanted. I ain’t get everything I wanted yet out this shit. Now, when I get it, I might go to actin’ different. But for right now, I ain’t got what I want yet.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Baby spoke about lighter-hearted topics such as how much he charges for a feature. He recently released his third studio album, It’s Only Me.
Check out Baby’s appearance on The Experience Podcast below.
How many Grammys does Lil Baby have?
Dominique Armani Jones, known professionally as Lil Baby, is an American rapper. Lil Baby has won 1 award – Grammy Award in 2021 for Best Melodic Rap Performance. Per his Wikipedia page, he has more than 25 awards from 2020 to 2022 from over 40 nominations.
He rose to mainstream fame in 2017 following the release of his mixtape Perfect Timing. His debut studio album, Harder Than Ever (2018), spawned the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single “Yes Indeed” (with Drake).
In 2018, he released two more mixtapes: Drip Harder (with Gunna), which contained the single, “Drip Too Hard”, that reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was later certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); and Street Gossip, which reached #2 on the US Billboard 200.
His second studio album, My Turn (2020), reached #1 on the Billboard 200 and is certified triple-platinum by the RIAA. The album spawned the singles, “We Paid” (with 42 Dugg) and “The Bigger Picture”, both of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2021, Lil Baby and rapper Lil Durk released the collaborative album The Voice of the Heroes, which became Lil Baby’s second #1 Billboard 200 project.
He also collaborated with Drake on the songs “Wants and Needs”, and “Girls Want Girls”, and with Nicki Minaj on the 2022 single “Do We Have a Problem?”, all three of which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His feature on the song “Hurricane” by Kanye West, alongside The Weeknd, won him the Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance.
In addition to his Grammy Award, Lil Baby has received an MTV Video Music Award, and two BET Awards; and was crowned the biggest all-genre Artist of the Year at the Apple Music Awards 2020.
