A biography for DaBabyhasn’t been written yet.
“Now that I'm a XXL Freshman, you know, I feel like that sets high standards for me, and I feel like I have to deliver.”
“I love it when you have to perform at a certain level or else. That's when I'm at my best.”
“I like to have fun with my videos and performances, that's the most fun part when it comes to the music. I get to show off my character.”
“When it comes to the music, the traits you got to have in order to make lit music, club music, to have the swag with it, to have the lingo - I got those traits, you know what I mean?”
“I'm all the way hands-on when it comes to my videos.”
“I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.”
“I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music.”
“When I get bored with something, I'm done with it.”
“I like pressure.”
“I used to think I was ugly because I was the baby.”
“I'm a force to be reckoned with.”
“Anybody that is trying to go into business with me, of course, I'm gon' do my research on them.”
“He's from Fayetteville. I'm from Charlotte. We got two different upbringings. All in all though, I love J. Cole's perspective and I love his music. I love his approach. It's just two different things.”
“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'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.”
“When I started coming on my music the way I was coming on freestyles - just relentless, at your neck, as soon as the beat starts, that's when everything really clicked.”
“People are unpredictable at the end of the day.”
“The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.”
“It's just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family's peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain't no gray area: You're either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren't.”
“Anything I do, I'm doing it for a reason.”