Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, known professionally as DaBaby, is an American rapper.
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Dababy was born on December 22, 1991, in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1999, where he spent most of his early years.
Dababy attended Vance High School (now called Julius L. Chambers High School), where he graduated in 2010.
Dababy attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for two years, but did not complete his studies, saying he only went to college for his parents’ sake.
Dababy grew up listening to Eminem, 50 Cent and Lil Wayne with his two older brothers.
Dababy began taking music seriously between 2014 and 2015 and in 2015, he started off his music career by releasing Nonfiction, his debut mixtape.
Dababy later followed this up with his God’s Work mixtape series, Baby Talk mixtape series, Billion Dollar Baby, and Back on My Baby Jesus Sh*t.

Dababy initially performed under the name Baby Jesus, which he eventually changed out of concern that it had become a distraction.
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After releasing several mixtapes between 2014 and 2018, Dababy rose to mainstream prominence in 2019.
DaBaby’s debut studio album Baby on Baby (2019) peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200, while his second studio album, Kirk (2019), debuted at number one.
Baby (2019) featured the Billboard Hot 100 top-ten single “Suge”, while Kirk featured the multi-platinum records “Intro” and “Bop”.
Dababy’s third studio album, Blame It on Baby (2020), became his second consecutive number-one album in the US.
The album included his highest-charting song, “Rockstar” (featuring Roddy Ricch), which spent seven non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Dababy is also the founder of Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment, an American record label founded in 2017 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Billion Dollar Baby currently has signed 5 artists to the label.
DaBaby spoke about intending to focus on the record label saying “I won’t be rapping in five years, I won’t be rapping. I’ll be creating other superstars.”
Dababy has a net worth of about $10 million.


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