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Lil Baby makes motivational music about getting money and cutting people off.

His verses deliver not just airtight hooks and bars but that stripe of world-weary authenticity.
Im an artist and a businessman, Lil Baby proclaimed onThe Breakfast Clubthis month.
His primary concern for a project is that it do well.Its Only Mereinforces the point.
This slipperiness can be a curse sometimes.
Hes not a social-media power user like his labelmates, the City Girls.
What you dont hear in a song, you may never know.
Lil Yachty followed the bubblyLil Boatmixtape with the bulky studio albumTeenage Emotions.
(It might even be the fourth: Mariah the ScientistsAlways n Foreveris sturdy.)
On Danger and Pop Out, he fusses about Google getting his net worth wrong.
You know the album is too long when the jokes start repeating.
Hes successful enough to take chances; he understands his appeal too well to stray from the script.