Lil Baby Doesn't Want To Be An Old Rapper, But Plans To Work For The Rest Of His Life

foreign how do you feel on out release day my love I'm release day I'm always working hard so I'm kind of tired today that's it just tired there's no way you gotta get up and like you get up you got to get up in the morning and feel like no you just get up and see work yeah I felt like that yesterday then I'm tired today so maybe later on today I'll get back turn up a little bit yeah you should man you should be proud people don't you know this career that you've built is

really been extraordinary sure and I'm sure you're on a whirlwind of it but do you ever take a minute to be like yo this is crazy what we built yeah every now and then every now and then I just stop and look back on myself or like I just scroll down my Instagram just like look at the pictures and actually like look at it like damn [ __ ] real isn't that crazy Instagram become like your like your family photo album it's like it documents your life in such a crazy way yeah do you have

a moment that sticks out that's like your when you knew like that moment thing shifted for you um I wouldn't say I got a particular moment because everything happened so fast so I ain't like one thing happened because uh so much does happen every day so I don't got no one particular thing that just happened but are you having fun are you enjoying the ride or I'm actually having fun first I wasn't but now I am I'm having fun what'd you do would you shift what did you change oh no I guess it just came

with time like as I start getting the hang of things and you know just relaxing living a little more yeah can't fun you seem like you're having fun I love the documentary thank you thank you so dope so well done I saw it at the I saw it twice I saw at the festival and then I saw it when it when it dropped okay um just well done and then you surprised the crowd and performed it was a good night it was Radio City Musical right right yeah yeah it was a great night is what

is that like for you to watch that back actually I kind of like bring tears to my eyes every time why should I drop a tear or two it's like it means a lot to me but it means more than I'm sure in the world is part of me you remember like even just letting the world tap into this much of me that's kind of like a cinnamon and then a lot of stuff in there like send them into music even people who in there like with us no more so it's like it's a it's

an emotional roller coaster piece of art for me did they have to push you to or were you willing and ready to share all of that or did they have to like I honestly didn't share everything you know what I'm saying I I did enough to get it get it going but it definitely was a little push only because I had to have a cameraman with me I'm not used to having somebody in my personal space but you have control right you have control over like what was used it's not like somebody could set you

up whatever it's not it's not it's not about what he gonna record it's just about him being there because it's like somebody I don't know you got to come to my house you got to be around my kids you gotta it's just it's just kind of awkward to me yeah are you glad you did it I'm great I'm glad I did not even now I wish I would let the camera guy record me a little more really yeah what do you think we missed or he missed or he didn't catch I mean he just I

can't say particularly but just like on day to day because those times in the documentary was only like one or two days with my kids but if I would have just let them come for a week straight would have probably uh type of stuff would have been in there I'll tell you though even though he's only with you one or two days we I feel like I got to see or know you as a father like for sure and your kids are mad funny and mad cute I love Kansas and the Mad characters and I

feel like the dog did a good job even though it might have been short it was enough to kind of get a little insight into how important being a father is to you um super important yeah super important being a fire to me you can see that only because I didn't grow up with a father in there but I just feel like as a a meal you need like male guidance I'm saying it's like naturally you should get that for your father if you can so I can get that so that's what I'm on you

seem like you have fun though with them too like yeah running around that's my happy place yeah I love that for you super dope did they watch it was it wild yeah they didn't watch it my phone five times do they understand your story like because they only know you as like rich and famous you know it's a movie where I'm in and he and his brother that's it that's how you know I love that so a couple things number one I got to understand how important that being a father is to you and getting

to see your kids is so cute I love the moment where you on the fence about going to the Grammys for a couple reasons right because I feel like you didn't get nominated which was [ __ ] nuts all right you know you felt that same way yeah not really you did it you didn't feel that way oh believe it or not I don't even know when I get nominated or not oh so you don't care about Awards yeah but you cared about the award show right right why what's the difference to me show more

like a performance you know I feel like that lasts longer than a ward get an award take it home nobody ain't coming to my house anyway so I'm just gonna sit there so it doesn't mean that Awards don't mean nothing doesn't matter people say that but for some reason I really believe you when you say it I'd always believe people when they say that I actually believe you so but the performance is more important performing definitely more important I feel like I open more doors too than just receive an agreement yeah I think that said

a lot about you it said that it told us that but it also showed that you are not easily um because you know your team was mixed some of your team didn't want you to perform right because honestly I I would feel the same way like you don't invite you won't invite me to get you ratings and perform on your show but you don't nominate me for a very well deserving album and so I understood your team that didn't wasn't sure if you should right but um but you kind of like quiet all that right

right for sure I mean I listen I listen to the pros and cons and the con was that I didn't get nominated that's something I don't care about so it wouldn't make sense for me to be like cancel it and I said now if it was something I care about I would definitely be with my team I would have felt the same way if I was into Awards I maybe would have felt like I got cheated or I deserved it but I don't think like that yeah but the beauty of that is if you didn't

we would have missed that moment that you created right exactly yeah from from down to the documenting to this to the actual performance like everything so it was definitely the right idea to do it yeah were you super proud of that performance yeah I was a little nervous though that's definitely super proud of that yeah why why don't I still be nervous a lot still yeah when all the time I just be nervous I don't know interviews too interviews not so much as I used to be but a little bit now but not so much

as I used to be but performing and stuff I still be nervous and like right on TV or just in regular like concerts regular is better but TV for some reason is just it's just maybe because I haven't done it that much so it's like I ain't practicing like regular shows I kind of know how it's gonna go so I ain't too nervous or whatnot it's just the thought of it being like live and you only could do it one time it's just a lot of pressure that I ain't got used to yet you ain't

look like it you look like a rock star you look like you had the whole thing together the outfit was fly the sentiment was flying all of it was dope thank you nah you killed it I'm glad you you chose that route what about like a tour like you just got back from house tour yeah so it was great we saw it out every night man Chris Brown crazy that was a great tour too I sold out every night yeah is that that number trips you out you're gonna be backstage like [ __ ] you

know when you go out there and see all them people you're like damn back to back to back yeah yeah definitely make you say like damn yeah how you manage toy life like the kids and all of that so you do it like kind of it's kind of hard on tour but it was kind of it was a little better this time because I went on tour during the summertime when I was out of school so that maybe was with me if I have for the two of my oldest son he definitely was with me

like two or three weeks on the tour so it was kind of cool this this go around you're old is about to be an artist right yeah what are you gonna do I need something for sure he wants in so bad for sure he wants to be in the front of the show how do you feel about that and how do you navigate that like what do you tell them how do you prepare him that's where he goes I don't talk to him about being a rapper like I wouldn't want him to be a rapper

but if he decided to be a rapper I'll stand behind him but I don't think you want to be a rapper he's more soldiers he want to do what I do by the time you get old enough we arrival hopefully we'll be doing something I'll be doing something else that you like too hey you want to do that not saying nothing wrong with being a rapper on there is that well for you for sure yeah you know there's a lot of talk I see a lot of people who who the Son and the daddy made

the rapper yeah you're right I see it in basketball football stuff like that not rapping ever have we ever seen that Romeo and uh yeah okay I can see that that's it but it doesn't mean it can't be done doesn't mean it can't be done though can't be amazing right definitely could be done and amazing yeah it's scary being a rapper though man I I wondered about that for you because you know there's been so much loss and so much violence and so Much Death and lots of conversation about rappers being the most danger endangered

position like that you put yourself do you feel that walking around do you feel does that ever affect you I was in streets before I started rapping so that's the same stuff I already was faced with so once I became a rapper and nothing really didn't change so it's like I still have to move and groove like I was when I was in the street profile's bigger now my profile bigger it may be even better because I feel like I'm less of a Target in a public place because so many people do know me family

versus when I'm low-key and nobody don't know me it's something go down at least anything go down to some of these everybody be on top of it people with no potential already gonna be on me when I go somewhere anyway so I feel like it's it's kind of bitter being a rapper yeah you guys you got good people around like you got good like team around you yeah a great team around makes smart decisions I make smart decisions too though yeah I've been trying to put myself in certain situations if I can help do you

um you have a lot of like like younger artists that are just coming like do you I don't know I feel like people come to you yeah definitely are you big homie like a lot of people reach out to me and I and that's how I learned everything I know from like big homies so like and I'm getting older none I've been in the game a little bit I know a little couple steps are like it's like an honor to be like to get somebody a little game yeah yeah you're like in that position that

way yeah well you've had some wins you've been at this you know what I mean you've had success and you moving around good and especially for anybody who like transitioning from the streets to become artists like I definitely they definitely hit me up yeah what is that like what is that number one thing or that that advice that you give to somebody who's trying to do that because maybe somebody don't have access to you but it's in that transition the most the main thing is like you got to do what you gotta do for you

you know I'm saying however person take that whether that's separate yourself again deeper in or whatever you need to do you need to make sure it's for you because at this point he's like your move it ain't this ain't everybody else move you know I mean like everybody else ain't making rapper if you made it rapping and you got a chance at a career you need to like focus on you because like 80 of the time is not even the person it's like the people around them that's the problem and you can't take everybody can't

take everybody there's no way it's not even possible to take everybody even if you wanted to take care everybody it's not possible the people don't understand that but it's always awkward growing I mean we've seen the story so many times the people who haven't had that experience but it's just an awkward like um phase of right feeling comfortable in that space are you finally comfortable in that transition like that you have transitioned or yeah I'm always comfortable I'm always comfortable with anything I do honestly like I don't really care how people feel about it because

I learned that I gotta do what I gotta do for me so it is with you how do you look at yourself in the scheme of where where like where you're at in your career and how everybody looks at you because there are people who put you on the top list right right now and do you are you do you feel like you're there I feel like I'm I'm working towards that I'm saying like this but you know that you're on there's people right now that's like when you ask who's like who's the best out

right now yeah I definitely definitely yeah no I'm on at least but I don't really like pay attention to that my thing be like I got to stay on the list yeah more so more so than I'm just on the list I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to stay on the list do you put yourself on like a some people a lot of rappers be like I'm the greatest in the game right is that a thing for you no no I feel like it's people who better than me it's like especially

like some people who like rappers is and it's you can't just say he better than him or he better than him because he's like different aspects of it he might be better than him with a Melody but he might can't rhyme like him or he might be better than him with punch lies but he might got more sisters so he's like it's hard to say like you you better than somebody I mean I feel like that about art I I hate a top five list number one because my [ __ ] changes all the time

how I feel this week and next month yeah right might be different and then with like music you can't just say you're the best because it's like really unless unless you're just saying you the best that was yeah okay you good now that's the only way you could kind of like be the best but just like opinionated I don't see it because there's so many different angles that you could be the best of it's just like not one thing like I'm the best rapper there's some artists though that that's what they they're a lot of

rappers especially that that's their mission they want to be the number one in the spot and they they want to even just because you're number one in the spot don't mean you regret it the best either yeah that's true that's true that's true so what is your like is there like a star is there something you chase like well you just make the music and let it be where it's gonna be or I make the music and let it be what it's gonna be for the most part is there other artists that inspire you or

that you feel like it's on your level and then they lift you because sometimes you know any artist any artist it could be an up-and-coming artist just like when I get in a studio and a Bible or the artist give me a little boost a little dry what about you against you like what about your last album versus this album like do you get into that with yourself like were you trying to top yourself nah my last album was so old I don't even try to compare it really oh okay like two years ago I

know it's funny that you call that old so it's like I wanna I'm not even in that same space I'm going to even like compare um but no pressure to live up to it because people love that album not not like pressure to live up to it you know what I'm saying because I'm not living up to that album that was just what I had dropped you know I mean like so I'm trying to like live up to everything I do if that makes sense yeah it does that would be me thinking small kind of

be like I'm trying to live up to that I'm like I'm on some way bigger and better we're just getting the album today so what what what what's your people like what are you most proud of what is like I'm actually just most proud of that I'm actually dropping an album because well I just getting it done yeah I've been saying I'm a drop for a long time Thug said if you didn't drop it's gonna be a problem I feel like everybody went on me y'all so that's the main thing that I'm actually gonna drop

me like and then I just want to see the rest of them you see how people respond but do you have favorites like what are your favorite song like you said uh different days I got different favors yeah depending on my vibe I'm saying some days I don't like certain so some days I love them how you picking the how you pick all the cat the appearances and the cameos and all that honey we kind of just go with the flow just kind of go with the flow see what we need to do or what

I what I think we need to do then once it come out we'll we'll know what we need to do you had um something went viral today as well because you said your appearance fee when you put cameos you told people what you was it 350 or something like that yeah something like that people feel away with that which I don't understand why anybody would feel away about what your number is or what you like what I don't know I guess it was debate whether how much it should be or I guess you didn't see

that you don't get no end of that no I don't really be I don't see stuff on the internet like that you don't be paying attention and no people don't bring it to you not really unless it's good that's smart one of my peers and it's something they probably know I want to see some stuff like that yeah I don't see stuff like that it was just people debating about how much should the other parents they don't even do features anyway so yeah he was just hypothetically saying I just tell him but I don't even

I don't even care to do I mean not now because I did a lot of them already and stuff yeah I already did a feature for everybody so you're not inspired to do like if there's an artist you like and they call yeah I do that yeah and whatever see it's always a different price life I like them anyway I'm lenient I like them then the price goes down right that makes sense but also if your price is too low then you just out here on everything right why would why would it be low I

don't know you like I don't know why people would even think it should be low and that's what I was saying to somebody else earlier like that type of stuff really ain't even for really like public information really for you to even be saying what you make and stuff that's what I'm learning too like that type of stuff really dude keep it secret if you buy one you know you know what I'm saying mm-hmm yeah and then I'm sure like I guess it's about to create because some some artists say that they do stuff just

on creativity like I just do it on the strength because right I feel that Arlene I'm sure you've done that too for like friends or people that yeah all the time all the time all the time all the time yeah but that's like what I want to hop on I don't really hop on something somebody else want me to for free um you got to be something that I like I'm gonna hop on that yeah you feel that I love that too how close how much we got to know about I mean we knew you

and Thug were close but like I don't know it's different to see it right you know I mean it's different to see him talking about you and um I don't know it's just dope definitely how's he how's he doing doing great doing great they actually go to court today I'm trying to wait and see what the Reddit gonna be you talk regularly right yep you're in good spirits I ain't talked to him recently because I've been working on the album so much like I just been going going back and forth LA on different time schedule

but I still just reach out to somebody around make sure they doing all right or check on them how important is that though for you like I'm looking at when you was coming up and how he was like supposed to have somebody who's has that much belief and support in you that has established already um I mean your team too and I guess quality control the same thing so I mean how much did that help you just having people like that at the time at the time I probably didn't realize it but like now that

I look back on it helped me a whole lot like it got me to where I am today was there like a moment or a thing that a best advice or was something you learn I mean the best advice was rap yeah I mean the best advice is getting that from them is like you need to rap yeah that was the best advice I could have got from anybody and you went at it though and you really get to see that in the dark okay you went from like yeah okay and then all of a

sudden something happened to you right something happened where you started taking it serious from the giggle I never I ain't wanna like I already was popular you know I had like a little screen create or whatever but I didn't want to be a rapper who like I was cool because of that I wanted you to like not know my story not know about me or nothing just hear the song and like the song I really wanted the life I'm gonna be rapping getting on stage because I'm not I don't want to be on stage like

a cornball like that looks so according to me to be in stay on stage rapping a [ __ ] song in the club it just looks like you're embarrassing us I think you probably wouldn't even show up so I was like all right this what I'm gonna do this what they want me to do but I gotta do it right because I ain't trying to get on the stage and be looking corny I want to be cool so so that was my whole mindset like I I need to if I'm a rapper gotta be something

everybody wanna say something I do got to perform and stuff like it's gonna be a Vibe versus just me up there performing and all right so you took it but there was the moment you started taking this seriously yeah from the start yeah from the start and getting better right you got better so fast was there something you had to do or has that just happened it just happened naturally once I started doing it yeah all the time it just elevate dope all right so what do people need to know about this album I think

people should notice something that they should get that they should take a second to listen to him saying something they haven't heard in a minute and I feel like it's different from everything else that's coming up are you proud of it definitely super proud of it overly proud I know you can't compare it to the last one but you do you feel growth growth 100 growth what in bars and Rhymes and music making song make like what I mean in bars I ain't gonna just say too much like is is the is the the way

I'm talking and the things I'm talking about is that's that's the growth I mean like the uh because I cause I might have said something in the last on the last album about at least in a car I might be saying something on this album about credit it will be like so it's like a like a mature a mature album then you like to you learn some things right I learned some things since then right it's gonna be crazy to see what you're rhyming about in five years for sure for sure that's the crazy part

definitely you think you're gonna still be doing it then I don't know I don't know what is the do you have thoughts of like a vision for the future yeah I want to be an old rapper really you know everybody says that I think I have an interview with Jay-Z saying he was going to quit after his first album I definitely have an interview with Eminem saying at 30 he was gonna disappear and be low because he didn't want to do it no more and then you start falling in love with this [ __ ]

then you kiss very hard what is Old Time move fast too yeah he'll be at that age yeah I don't know it'll be interesting to see I pulled this back up here I hope so for you by the way because the same way you grow from last you know that last project to this project you're going to be a different person in five years that's a different person in 10 years and if you're lucky enough to still be people still want to hear what you gotta say then you kind of got to say it right

but Jay-Z kind of like you kind of did what he said right nah he said he was gonna quit after the first album oh the first album get older cause like we shifted now he don't really rap you know what I'm saying no he rap to be mad if you said that still raps he just I mean the last album was a while ago and he's not like aggressively active that's what I mean yeah okay so I said like since I'm origin if I still got the crap no I'll do it but it won't be

like I'm trying to work on an album or trying to go on a tour you got something to say yeah you know just when I got something to say and it'd still be hard like that's what I mean by like I'm not rep not like on some studio every day schedule full of rapping I like that's what I mean like still trying to do shows I think there's a lot too about the difference between artists that really just be authentic right you know what I'm saying I think if Jay got older and he started rapping

about the same [ __ ] he was rapper about everybody be like yeah it won't work yeah but it works because if you grow and you being really who you are then people adapt to it right and possibly the ones who grow with you I see that for you you never know thank you so what else if we're not gonna be rapping what are you going to be doing what are we going to what what is what is 10 years from now a little baby look like I honestly don't know I just I just always

had it thought in my head like I want to be no older rapper like 35 36 I don't know other businesses though any other businesses sure other businesses yeah for sure other business I know I kind of know him I have to work for the rest of my life you going to work yeah why you could probably you don't have to work you know somebody who don't work for real not like somebody who old who get like a social security or yeah yeah yeah well I know I know yeah I know people who are like

wealthy and just do stuff here and there that's what it's still working yeah if it's hearing dirt to me still at work so like I I know because of the I gotta know so we got to know somebody that don't work there's people that don't work if you're if you're wealthy and you a lot of wealthy people I don't work they all work right billionaires the they work still yeah because you gotta think just from the simplest form if I have a car I'm having insurance no matter what if I ever house I got tested

no matter what it's it's gonna be some kind you're gonna have to spend money till you die no matter what and the way I'm trying to keep things going yeah I see me having to work you like to spend money I just spend money for sure do you spend wisely sometimes sometimes do you buy wild [ __ ] like what's the last big wild thing you bought owned by like wow things but I go wow for instance like I ain't buy like one jacket that was crazy but I bought a lot of clothes or I

ain't go to one place in them but when I was at that place I might have spent a lot you know what I'm saying something like I just buy crazy things but I go hard when I go hard a lot of people work too because they love it because you need because you need to be you know creative inspired contributing whatever different reasons it's definitely different reasons but the main reason is like even if you're successful be wealthy like people who like said just say for instance I built a company I sell it for a

billion dollars my time you're not gonna just sit at home and live out the money you're gonna either try to invest some money yeah I mean it's like it never stopped I don't see me having enough money where I'm like I'm just gonna coast ride out yeah be interesting to see what happens so what are the other businesses what should we be what's your what's in the future um have you thought about it yet or you're still figuring it out I'm still figuring it out but it's not like like what's up other businesses and like

I'm saying I'm about to I'm about to open this up but now but I'm more of a like more on uh silent side if that makes sense behind the scenes right artist label all that on just anything I do whatever you do probably more of a behind the scenes side like far as like business-wise like I probably being systemless stuff and you'll never know like that type of thing quiet right I heard you get all the money get all the money and congrats on uh you know another dope album thank you I think um everybody

should get it today what is your hope I guess the last thing is what is your what is your hope for the album when you make this and you're putting out in the world what do you where you wanted to land how how everybody's just occasionally receiving and I hope it's what you know what they expected what they're waiting on that's all I hope but you go right no matter what he's good I'm good you seem unrattled by anything which is really amazing you don't care about Awards you don't care about topping [ __ ]

you did before you care about money yeah and your kids should show my kids you know what I care about me though even hey what me and you and I care about me well there it is little baby everybody the album and celebrate a little today