{"id":973935,"date":"2019-12-08T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923770"},"modified":"2019-12-08T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:10:46","slug":"watch-dababy-perform-bop-with-dance-crew-the-jabbawockeez-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-dababy-perform-bop-with-dance-crew-the-jabbawockeez-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch DaBaby Perform \u2018Bop\u2019 With Dance Crew the Jabbawockeez on \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dababy-bop-snl-youtube.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Following the release of his sophomore album <em>Kirk<\/em> in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dababy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dababy\" data-tag=\"dababy\">DaBaby<\/a> made his first-ever appearance on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> <\/em>this weekend. Accompanying host Jennifer Lopez as the show\u2019s musical guest, the rapper performed two songs for the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\">SNL<\/a><\/em> audience in Studio 8H: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dababy-intro-really-bop-kirk-fallon-893182\/\">Bop<\/a>\u201d from<em> Kirk<\/em> and \u201cSuge\u201d from his debut album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/dababy-is-goin-baby-807835\/\"><em>Baby on Baby,<\/em><\/a> released in early 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hip-hop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hip-hop\" data-tag=\"hip-hop\">hip-hop<\/a> and trap dance crew the Jabbawockeez, DaBaby delivered an energetic performance of \u201cBop\u201d alongside a crowded stage of dancers that included a lot of twerking.<\/p>\n<p>Later, DaBaby returned to perform his hit \u201cSuge\u201d with the Jabbawockeez, in which he threw dollar bills in the air and ushered in a dance-off.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MWJXzWaOUo?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DaBaby also appeared in an <em>SNL<\/em> sketch in which Jennifer Lopez, Kenan Thompson, Pete Davidson, and Chris Redd posed as carolers who put their own Christmas spin on hip-hop classics. While the group was singing to a couple, DaBaby robbed them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYo, I\u2019m like Robin Hood. I rob the rich and take it back to the hood,\u201d DaBaby said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8JaoVqh-MIc?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dababy-baby-of-the-year-901697\/\">the rapper spoke to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> about <i>Kirk <\/i>saying, \u201cYou going to hear shit like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dababy-intro-song-you-need-to-know-887438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Intro,\u2019<\/a> where I rap like I\u2019ve never rapped before. You going to hear shit like me rapping on the J. Cole song. Certain songs, I don\u2019t even use ad-libs. I can do whatever at the end of the day. Whatever the music or production takes me, that\u2019s where I\u2019m going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following his breakout year, DaBaby has received two Grammy nominations: \u201cBest Rap Song\u201d and \u201cBest Rap Performance\u201d for \u201cSuge.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/snl-dababy-bop-suge-jabbawockeez-923770\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the release of his sophomore album Kirk in September, DaBaby made his first-ever appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Accompanying host Jennifer Lopez as the show\u2019s musical guest, the rapper performed two songs for the SNL audience in Studio 8H: \u201cBop\u201d from Kirk and \u201cSuge\u201d from his debut album, Baby on Baby, released [&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-973935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:21:24","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\/973935","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=973935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}