Lil Baby has been the topic of conversations in rap circles in recent weeks. The cancellation of tour dates and mixed reactions to song snippets have some internet users questioning Baby’s current star power.
Akademiks, a longtime agitator of Lil Baby, offered his thoughts on the Quality Control Music recording artist’s apparent dilemma. Over several tweets, Ak addressed rap fans who’ve turned on the man born Dominique Jones.
“So now all of yall wanna jump on the ‘Lil Baby fell off,’ ‘Lil Baby making the same song over and over again’ train,” he tweeted. “When I said his last album was mid y’all said I was a dick-riding hater who only said that cuz he dissed me… Wtf changed since then… why y’all turn on [Dominique]?”
Last year, Akademiks took issue with Lil Baby name-dropping him on the It’s Only Me album. Those bars on “From Now On” and “Top Priority” led to Ak threatening to choke the “retarded rapper” to death.
Ak also tweeted, “This s### shows me how fickle fans are and how they have no real opinion. A few headlines unfavorable to Baby & now he fell off? But when he dropped the music [before]… y’all ate it up and cosigned it as hot cuz it was trendy to do. Now that he hugging white dudes [and] tour floppin. He fell off?”
DJ Akademiks Offers Lil Baby Some Advice To Win Back Fans
Lil Baby caught a lot of flack online after a photo of Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin hugging him at a party went viral. For example, Hip-Hop mogul 50 Cent made fun of Lil Baby, suggesting the picture with Rubin made the 28-year-old southerner appear to be gay.
“I got the remedy for Lil Baby,” Ak continued. “Stay far [the f###] away from that Michael Rubin n###a… or keep it off camera… the optics don’t look right… the internet making it sound like [you] on some Get Out s###… it’s ruining the facade needed for fickle rap fans to buy into music.”
Then Ak advised Lil Baby to do more features, release more mixtapes, use different artists to perform the hooks to his records, stop rapping about not falling off and cut back on arena tour dates.
Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2022. His third studio LP earned roughly 216,000 first-week units. The Grammy winner also topped the album chart with 2020’s My Turn and 2021’s The Voice Of The Heroes collaborative effort with Lil Durk.
So now all of yall wanna jump on the 'Lil Baby fell off' ' Lil Baby making the same song over and over again' train… When I said his last album was mid yall said i was a dick riding hater who only said that cuz he dissed me.. Wtf changed since then.. why yall turn on dominque?
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
This s### shows me how fickle fans are and how they have no real opinion. a few headlines unfavorable to baby & now he fell off? but when he dropped the music b4.. yall ate it up and cosigned it as hot cuz it was trendy to do. Now that he hugging white dudes n tour floppin. he…
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
Also… its interesting how the Gunna angle is playing out online as well.. I seen these 'fly by night' fans say Thug is trash because they felt Gunna put out a better album … now the new narrative is that Gunna better off w/o Lil Baby… most fans love storylines not music
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
Yall trying yall best to do to Lil Baby what yall did to Da baby… this why u need a solid core fanbase .. the rest of these 'fly by night' fans will switch up on cuz u getting sandwiched hugged at a all white party or they 'heard' ur tour not selling.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
I got the remedy for Lil Baby… stay far tf away from that Michael Rubin n####.. or keep it off camera… the optics dont look right.. the internet making it sound like u on some 'Get Out' s###.. its ruining the façade needed for fickle rap fans to buy into music.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
Secondly.. Go on a crazy feature run… or drop a few tapes.. bar for bar u one of the best rapping.. these fickle fans will forget all this hate they giving..
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
Also that merch madness song.. delete it from youtube. its terrible.
3rd.. you gotta stop remaking 'Woah' and 'Its On me'… we gave u a pass with Right On… but the formulaic songs aint cutting it .. ur cadence for hooks was new for a few years now all it does is remind us of the most successful versions of it. Put somebody else on the hook.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
4th. Stop Rapping About 'Not Falling Off' while the whole conversation about u is if you Fell off.. u dont beat fall off accusations by just rapping about falling off. Maybe add a lil substance or sum?
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
5th. Look around at everybody in the studio this day you previewed this song… they are all liars. This should have never left the Engineer headphones. pic.twitter.com/MTtsPSQe8o
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
6th. Consolidate ur tour. U can clearly do Arenas in some places… but money tight for a lot of these post PPP fans who broke now and Everybody n they mama is out doing a arena tour in the next 6 months.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023
Keep in mind yall charging same price as rolling loud which a n#### can…
If Lil Baby adopts even 3 outta 6 of the advice I just laid down.. By Spring 24' yall gonna act like yall was never hating on him period once he drops a new song on a yacht.. with 15 white girls and him doing donuts on the Jet Ski…
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) July 19, 2023