The irreverent and charismatic Charlotte rapper's Interscope debut is just as wild as his mixtapes. There are 13 songs on DaBaby’s Interscope debut, Baby on Baby, and on those 13 songs, he starts rapping at the following timestamps: 0:00, 0:07, 0:08, 0:16, 0:00, 0:00, 0:01, 0:00, 0:00, 0:02, 0:02, 0:06, and 0:11. This is the fundamental appeal of DaBaby’s music—it’s aggressive, energetic, obsessed with forward motion. The Charlotte native can turn a colorful phrase and sell rote ones through sheer charisma. There are no moody beat shifts or lofty gestures: DaBaby is not trying to be played in museums or at brunch.
Baby on Baby comes in the middle of a prolific period for the rapper: the mixtapes Baby Talk 5 and Blank Blank, released in June and November of last year, respectively, both underscored his regional popularity and national crossover potential. But while DaBaby seems, in interviews and through his ambitious videos, to be committed to the whole fame thing, the music is refreshingly without pretense or artifice, concerned less with the way it will play in boardrooms and more with the way it will play out of trunks.
| 1 | Taking It Out |
| 2 | Suge |
| 3 | Goin' Baby |
| 4 | Pony |
| 5 | Deal Wit' It |
| 6 | Baby Sitter |
| 7 | Celebrate |
| 8 | Joggers |
| 9 | Carpet Burn |
| 10 | Best Friend |
| 11 | Tupac |
| 12 | Backend |
| 13 | Walker, Texas Ranger |
