Lil Baby has become one of the most sought after rappers in hip hop ever since he dropped
his debut album “Harder Than Ever” back in May of 2018.
The 25 year old rapper from Atlanta, Georgia has had multiple chart topping hits such as
“Yes Indeed” featuring Drake and “Drip Too Hard” featuring Gunna which have made
him not only a multi million dollar recording artist, but a certified multi platinum artist
as well.
In fact, Lil Baby has gone platinum over 10 times since the start of his career, which
is quite impressive to say the least.
But what makes Lil Baby’s story even more astonishing is the fact that just a few years
ago, he was sitting alone in his 6 by 8 concrete cell in a georgia state penitentiary at just
18 years old.
Curious on how Lil Baby got himself into this situation?
Well then we got you covered.
Here is an exclusive inside look at the Criminal History of Lil Baby.
Lil Baby’s first arrest first arrest took place when he was just 12 years old.
While out with some friends, Lil Baby got this genius idea to go break in and rob a
house that was in his Atlanta neighborhood.
As the crew approached the house, police pulled up out of nowhere and detained all of them
almost immediately.
After a few minutes of questioning, the police came to the conclusion that Lil Baby and friends
were planning on breaking into the home and arrested them for burglary.
Since Lil Baby was only 12 years old at the time, he obviously couldn’t be booked into
a county jail, so they brought him to a local juvenile detention center, where he stayed
locked up for only 10 days.
When he got out, Lil Baby continued to stay involved with the streets with the only difference
being that he was just less secretive about it.
Before, nobody other than his friends really knew what he was up to but after his arrest,
everyone, including his mother, knew about his little “after school activities”.
Despite being knee deep in the streets, Lil Baby continued to attend school and claimed
to be extremely smart academically.
He consistently passed all of his classes and was on the path to get his high school
diploma, but eventually got kicked out of high school due to the fact that he kept getting
suspended throughout his entire academic career.
After getting kicked out, Lil Baby was planning on going to an alternative school, but decided
to just drop out after realizing he was “too old” for the alternative school.
He was now in the streets, full-time.
With all the new free time on his hands, Lil Baby ended up getting arrested multiple times
during the ages of 16 and 17.
All of the details of these arrests seem to be sealed due to the fact that Lil Baby was
still a minor at the time, but he mentioned in a few interviews early on in his career
that the arrests were basically all for the same two things, drugs and guns.
Every time he was arrested, Lil Baby seemed to get off with almost little to no consequences
but this obviously didn’t last forever, as his next arrest left the judge fed up and
ended up sentencing Lil Baby to probation.
While on probation, Lil Baby stayed out of trouble for a short period of time, but at
the age of 18, he slipped up once again, and was sent back to jail after violating his
probation.
This probation violation had Lil Baby facing some serious time in prison which required
him to lawyer up as soon as possible.
His first lawyer was able to cut him a deal to where he just had to serve 2 years in prison
but Lil Baby wouldn’t take this for an answer and eventually fired him to hire a new lawyer
who was able to land him an even better deal where he was told that he could attend a 6
month program, instead of doing time in prison.
Lil Baby accepted this deal and went to the program a few days later.
After arriving to this program, Lil Baby soon found out that this program was actually intended
to be a year long ordeal instead of the 6 months that he had been told.
This upset Lil Baby and made him feel like he had been tricked but he continued to give
the program another chance.
Then, just a few days later, he got into a scuffle with another program attendee which
led to him being kicked out of the program and sentenced to 2 years in prison.
At the prison, Lil Baby didn’t really have any difficulties as you may expect an 18 year
old to have because he had cousins who were facing life sentences in the same penitentiary
he was in.
In addition to having some family by his side, it also probably helped that his two year
sentence was the shortest one out of all the inmates, which most likely made him thankful
that he's even going to get out, while other inmates may never see the light of day again.
On July 1, 2016, Lil Baby was released from prison and returned to his mother’s home
in Atlanta.
When he got back, Lil Baby realized that a lot of his street friends such as Marlo and
Young Thug, have begun rapping and were actually developing quite the buzz in the industry.
While this was cool and all, Lil Baby had no desire to rap and planned on going back
to hustling in the streets like he had been doing his whole life.
When word of his plans got around town, old friends such as P and Coach K from Quality
Control and even Young Thug encouraged Lil Baby to start rapping instead of going back
to his old ways.
Lil Baby soon began entertaining this idea but never actually got started… until Young
Thug paid for Baby’s first ever studio session.
This one studio session with Young Thug changed Lil Baby’s life… forever.
Lil Baby soon began to be in the studio non stop, recording song after song, until he
finally dropped his first ever project titled “Perfect Timing” which had features from
Lil Yachty, Gunna, and of course…
Young Thug.
This project brought a lot of buzz to Lil Baby, not only because of the good music,
but rather due to the fact that everyone discovered that this was Quality Control’s newest artist.
Lil Baby took advantage of all of this new attention and soon dropped his debut album
“Harder Than Ever”.
Two of the tracks featured on the album, “My Dawg” and “Freestyle” went viral online
and skyrocketed Lil Baby to mainstream success.
This not only allowed him to make incredible hits with his friends over at Quality Control,
but also gave him the ability to link up with other top tier artists such as Drake.
In fact, Drake and Lil Baby’s song titled “Yes Indeed” is currently 3 times platinum
and peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
It’s also pretty cool that Gunna, who was featured on Lil Baby’s first project, started
to gain mainstream success as well at around the same time as Lil Baby.
The two eventually went on to release an album together called “Drip Harder” where the
lead single “Drip Too Hard” peaked at number 4 on the Billboard charts and even
went platinum 5 times.
Then on February 7, 2019 at around 6 pm, Lil Baby was cruising around in his orange corvette
when a Georgia State Trooper saw the rapper fail to signal when changing lanes.
Lil Baby then proceeded to speed up and pass other vehicles in a reckless manner while
a lot of pedestrians were walking about on foot.
Then as soon as the state trooper got behind Lil Baby’s corvette to pull him over, Baby
realized what was going on and began to accelerate and change lanes in hopes to avoid being pulled
over.
That ended up not working out so well because the state trooper eventually pulled Lil Baby
over and arrested him for failing to signal while changing lanes, reckless driving, and
attempting to flee or elude police.
Baby was then put in the back of the police cruiser and then eventually booked into the
Fulton county jail.
Lil Baby was released later that night after posting bail for an unknown amount of money.
No updates have been released in the media about this arrest but I have a pretty good
feeling that Lil Baby will most likely just have to pay a fine of some sort and maybe
attend some type of traffic school.
Overall, I don’t really worry about Lil Baby ever falling back into his old ways.
He claims that he never wants to go back to prison and really showed everyone that not
only is he a talented artist, but that he also has an extremely good work ethic as well.
He seemed to have realized how fortunate he was to be surrounded by already established
rappers and label executives and put everything he had into the music until he became one
of the biggest names in hip hop.
I also want to note that I don’t really consider his last arrest to be anything major
whats so ever, or at least nothing major compared to what Lil Baby came from since it’s basically
just a traffic violation.
Regardless, I wish for nothing but the best for Lil Baby and hope he continues to achieve
massive success in the industry.
Well there you have it, the entire criminal history of Lil Baby.
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