{"id":973623,"date":"2019-11-20T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=914190"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:55:00","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-lil-baby-woah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-lil-baby-woah\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Lil Baby, \u2018Woah\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LilBaby.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The genius of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-baby\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-baby\" data-tag=\"lil-baby\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u2019s new track lies in a simple ad-lib, \u201cWoah.\u201d For three minutes that single word punctuates bars and provides stabs of momentum, as if Baby is simultaneously acting as his own hypeman. \u201cNone of you guys get fly as me, woah,\u201d he raps across the chorus. \u201cPost my drip up daily just so they can see, woah\/, turn me up some more so my haters can hear it, woah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Quality Control producer Quay Global, \u201cWoah\u201d is built on a bed of heavy hitting 808s and suspenseful piano, which provides Baby with a canvas to sing and stretch his vocals as he describes how far he\u2019s come since embarking on a full-time rap career only two years ago: \u201cBrand new car is noisy, come through and it\u2019s roarin\u2019\/See me and get nervous, I damn near did it perfect, work hard and determine, it\u2019s safe to say I earned it, woah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoah\u201d seemed destined to become a hit from the moment Baby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lilbaby_1\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">teased the song<\/a> a week before its release. It\u2019s currently Number One on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rs-charts-top-100-lil-baby-arizona-zervas-915040\/\">Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs<\/a> with 17.9 million streams. The song\u2019s namesake was likely inspired by the popular viral dance made famous by Houston rapper\/dancer 10k Cash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-baby-woah-song-you-need-to-know-914190\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The genius of Lil Baby\u2019s new track lies in a simple ad-lib, \u201cWoah.\u201d For three minutes that single word punctuates bars and provides stabs of momentum, as if Baby is simultaneously acting as his own hypeman. \u201cNone of you guys get fly as me, woah,\u201d he raps across the chorus. \u201cPost my drip up daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 21:23:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}