{"id":2703,"date":"2020-06-01T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2020-06-01T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:00:05","slug":"2019-was-near-unanimously-the-year-of-dababy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"2019 Was Near Unanimously The Year Of DaBaby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as hip-hop is concerned, 2019 was near unanimously the year of DaBaby. The Charlotte MC turned himself into a bona fide superstar through a combination of near ubiquitousness and unprecedented consistency in the fun-to-bar ratio of his verses. BLAME IT ON BABY, then\u2014his first project of 2020 (2019 brought us two, along with an inordinate amount of guest verses)\u2014is DaBaby forging onward despite a year marked by the inescapable calamity of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2704\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2704\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DaBaby-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DaBaby-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DaBaby-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DaBaby.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geo.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/blame-it-on-baby\/1508023035?mt=1&amp;app=music&amp;at=1010lLq2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StreamBlameItOnBaby<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time of BLAME IT ON BABY\u2019s release, DaBaby appeared on six separate songs within Apple Music\u2019s influential Rap Life playlist; this is clearly a man who stays in the studio. Which is not to say that he\u2019s any more in love with his own voice than his contemporaries. In fact, BLAME IT ON BABY features an all-star list of collaborators including Quavo, Future, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Roddy Ricch, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and even early-aughts R&amp;B princess Ashanti. If there is anything at all to blame DaBaby for, it\u2019s the much-appreciated sense of normalcy that hearing a song like \u201cTALK ABOUT IT\u201d\u2014where he brags about being nominated for a Grammy and draping his daughter in designer jewelry\u2014might provide for hip-hop fans in the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as hip-hop is concerned, 2019 was near unanimously the year of DaBaby. The Charlotte MC turned himself into a bona fide superstar through a combination of near ubiquitousness and unprecedented consistency in the fun-to-bar ratio of his verses. BLAME IT ON BABY, then\u2014his first project of 2020 (2019 brought us two, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2,165],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-dababy","tag-unanimously"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}