{"id":2447494,"date":"2019-08-13T11:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871135"},"modified":"2019-08-13T11:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:56:44","slug":"im-tired-of-writing-about-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/im-tired-of-writing-about-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Tired of Writing About Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In March, my editor and I joked on Slack about the proliferation of the name \u201cBaby\u201d in rap right now. That conversation quickly turned into the piece, \u201cThe Best Rappers in the World Are Babies<\/a>.\u201d From there, the headline spun off into an in-magazine graph, incessant questions from social media on why I didn\u2019t include more babies on my initial lists, and constant explaining that Lil Baby<\/a> and DaBaby<\/a> are, indeed, different people.<\/p>\n

The fact that I\u2019m writing about a music video called \u201cBaby<\/a>\u201d by Lil Baby and DaBaby six months later is now difficult. My critical adoration for the two rappers hasn\u2019t decreased, but my ability to make jokes about rap babies has plummeted. There are only so many funny infant-adjacent headlines one man can engineer in a calendar year. Regardless, the duo\u2019s video, which doubles as a Scarface<\/em> homage, is predictably entertaining and painfully obvious \u2014 a hallmark of DaBaby\u2019s work. Is a rapper truly a rapper if their favorite movie isn\u2019t the 1983 Al Pacino-starring, gangster vehicle? The Daps-directed visual features both Baby and DaBaby recreating the classic chainsaw, bathroom scene, albeit with more jewelry. It\u2019s worth four minutes of your time, if you\u2019re willing to not think about it too hard.<\/p>\n