{"id":805466,"date":"2020-03-19T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969888"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:25:11","slug":"how-tired-can-lil-baby-get-if-hes-already-tired-of-being-tired-of-being-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/how-tired-can-lil-baby-get-if-hes-already-tired-of-being-tired-of-being-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tired Can Lil Baby Get If He\u2019s Already Tired of Being Tired of Being Tired?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s potentially no artist who more accurately sums up the national mood than one Dominique Armani Jones. The Atlanta rapper, better known as Lil Baby<\/a>, is the modern bard of exhaustion. Across years and songs, he\u2019s rewritten, recontextualized, and perfected a central thesis \u2014 that being tired is, in and of itself, tiring; tiredness is an emotion that knows no depths, and can be eternally renewed.<\/p>\n

Textually, the genesis of Baby\u2019s leading theory began to bubble and ferment on 2018\u2019s Harder Than Ever<\/em>, which is not to be confused with its predecessors Too Hard<\/em> and Harder Than Hard<\/em> (or its spiritual cousin, Drip Harder<\/em>). On two separate songs from the album, \u201cLeaked\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Straight,\u201d Baby made sure to illustrate that one could be physically fatigued (\u201cI don\u2019t even sleep when I get tired\u201d) as well as emotionally (\u201cAin\u2019t telling you no lies, I\u2019m tired of seeing you cry\u201d). But it wasn\u2019t until Post Malone\u2019s 2019 song \u201cOn the Road\u201d that Baby distilled his previous thoughts into one succinct and powerful bar \u201cI\u2019m tired of bein\u2019 tired.\u201d Less than a year later, he updated his original findings on \u201cEmotionally Scarred,\u201d writing, \u201cBut I\u2019m tired of being tired of being tired,\u201d thus proving a previously unfounded hypothesis that the state of \u201cbeing tired\u201d was finite.<\/p>\n

Texturally, Baby\u2019s voice has also evolved to match his findings. Slurred yet urgent, his best performances on songs like, \u201cLife Goes On\u201d and \u201cClose Friends,\u201d are bolstered by the emotional weight of being through with significant others. On the song \u201cConsistent,\u201d Baby\u2019s voice is raw and curt as he informs the listeners that not only is he tired of his \u201ccar,\u201d but also his \u201choe.\u201d<\/p>\n