Lil Baby will be following up his album 'The Leak$' with a new project. The rapper released the 17-track The Leak$ on September 5th, produced by Wheezy, Murda Beatz, TM88, BabyWave, and more, with features from Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Lil Yachty, G Herbo, LUCKI, Veeze, Rylo Rodriguez, Skooly, and Bino.
Baby first shared the news of a new project during a livestream with PlaqueBoyMax, where he said: “I took a couple songs that already got leaked and put a whole album around it. Most of the leaks aren’t real versions anyway ... I’m then gonna release another album four weeks after that.”
Baby had previously announced that he had cancelled an album titled 'Dominique' in favor of releasing The Leak$, saying that it would show a different, more personal side of his persona: “Just more heartfelt and more direct with talking about certain subjects. I just was damn near warming up again [on WHAM], and Dominique is more strategic. Dominique is more of a grown sound. Lil Baby is something I created. But I kind of grew out of that stage. WHAM is [a persona] I created, and Dominique is [a persona] I created. WHAM is in the middle of Lil Baby and Dominique. So Dominique going to be like the more 30-year-old me.”
Baby added: “I initially was going [to drop] the self-titled album [first], but I had to backtrack because even though I’ve grown and I had a dramatic change, I ain’t really bring the fans along with me. So they don’t really know what I went through or what I’m going through. So to just go from Lil Baby to Dominique, I feel like that would’ve been too big of a jump for them. So I had to come back and tighten it up a little bit and ease their way into it. It’s two different albums, but something like a double album.”
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