The prolific rapper, who released his second number-one album, Blame It on Baby, in April, turned heads at the 2017 South by Southwest festival by donning not much more than a few necklaces and an adult diaper. "He's really funny," says Joie Manda, executive vice president of Interscope Records, DaBaby's label. "I think we're just at the beginning, and he's going to be here for a long time" (via Billboard).
And though he's had some run-ins with the law, including a fatal Walmart shooting in which DaBaby says he was threatened while shopping with his family (via The New York Times), the rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina, is looking to use his platform to guide others toward positive change. "I had already been successful with the things I was doing on the streets; I really kind of got bored with it," he confessed to XXL. "I was all about touching people and influencing people. I always been that type of person. I was the one teaching people things; I just always had a way with my words and I always spoke with substance. I figured, what better way to touch people and change people lives than with the music?"
