Luck Bone - On 'DaBaby" Rise An Fall, Support From Carolina, Shine Light On Charlotte NC
Jonathan Lyndale Kirk (born December 22, 1991), known professionally as DaBaby (formerly known as Baby Jesus), is an American rapper.[4] After releasing several mixtapes between 2014 and 2018, he rose to mainstream prominence with his debut album Baby on Baby (2019), which included the Billboard Hot 100 top ten single "Suge".

DABABY - THINK BOUT ME ( AT HOME VISUALIZER)
DaBaby - BOP on Broadway (Hip Hop Musical)
DABABY - INDUSTRY (GO DJ) [AT HOME VIZUALIZER]
DABABY - JOC IN 06' [OFFICIAL VIDEO]


His second studio album, Kirk (2019), debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.[5][6] The album spawned the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) multi-platinum singles "Intro" and "Bop".[7] That same year, he was featured on the singles "Enemies" by Post Malone, and "Cash Shit" by Megan Thee Stallion. Dababy's third studio album, Blame It on Baby (2020), became his second consecutive number-one album in the US. The album included his highest-charting song, "Rockstar" (featuring Roddy Ricch), which spent seven non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year nomination.[8]

His features on the 2020 singles "Whats Poppin (remix)" by Jack Harlow, and "Levitating" by Dua Lipa, both peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. That same year, he appeared alongside Lil Baby on the top ten single "For the Night" by Pop Smoke and was awarded two iHeartRadio Music Awards. In 2022, he released the collaborative mixtape Better than You, with YoungBoy Never Broke Again.

Kirk began taking music seriously between 2014 and 2015.[11] In 2015, he started off his music career by releasing Nonfiction, his debut mixtape. He followed this up with his God's Work mixtape series, Baby Talk mixtape series, Billion Dollar Baby, and Back on My Baby Jesus Sh*t. He initially performed under the name Baby Jesus, which he eventually changed out of concern that it had become a distraction.[13]

Kirk got his big break after signing to Arnold Taylor, the president of the South Coast Music Group label, a big radio promoter. Taylor saw Kirk perform around North Carolina clubs at the time he [Taylor] was launching his label. Taylor had been responsible for the early rise of Southern rap stars including Yo Gotti and Future.[11] Once they started working together, the team kept building buzz around the South with mixtapes and club shows, while Kirk was finding his sound.[13]

Through his deal with South Coast, Kirk signed a short-lived distribution deal with Jay-Z's Roc Nation for his Blank Blank mixtape that would prove to be his breakout in late 2018.[13] Thanks to the guidance of Taylor, and following major label bidding wars, Kirk landed a seven-figure recording deal wit