SINCE LAST YEAR, DaBaby has released two hit albums, two mixtapes, 15 music videos, and more than 20 high-profile features, while coining one highly distinctive catchphrase (“Goin’ baby,” an amorphous term that means to do something well). If you ask him, it’s all part of his more-is-more (but never enough) strategy. “When you’ve got a sound that don’t sound like nobody else, and it’s brand-new, you’ve got to feed it to ’em,” DaBaby stresses. “You’ve got to force it on ’em.”
The sound in question is a precise, staccato, syllable-crushing flow that has cut through a rap landscape dominated for years by singsong melodies and Auto-Tune, making DaBaby one of 2019’s biggest new stars. The week following the release of DaBaby’s latest album, KIRK, 12 of the top 25…
