{"id":91,"date":"2026-08-25T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildprod.agency\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=91"},"modified":"2026-08-25T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:08:11","slug":"dababy","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/wildprod.agency\/?artist=dababy","title":{"rendered":"DaBaby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jonathan Lyndale Kirk (born December 22, 1991), known professionally as DaBaby (formerly known as Baby Jesus), is an American rapper. After releasing several mixtapes between 2014 and 2018, he rose to mainstream prominence with his debut album&nbsp;<em>Baby on Baby<\/em>&nbsp;(2019), which included the&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Hot 100 top ten single &#8220;Suge&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His second studio album,&nbsp;<em>Kirk<\/em>&nbsp;(2019), debuted at number one on the&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;200. The album spawned the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) multi-platinum singles &#8220;Intro&#8221; and &#8220;Bop&#8221;. That same year, he was featured on the singles &#8220;Enemies&#8221; by Post Malone, and &#8220;Cash Shit&#8221; by Megan Thee Stallion. Dababy&#8217;s third studio album,&nbsp;<em>Blame It on Baby<\/em>&nbsp;(2020), became his second consecutive number-one album in the US. The album included his highest-charting song, &#8220;Rockstar&#8221; (featuring Roddy Ricch), which spent seven non-consecutive weeks at number one on the&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Hot 100, and received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, he was featured on the remix of &#8220;Whats Poppin&#8221; by Jack Harlow, and the single &#8220;Levitating&#8221; by Dua Lipa, both of which peaking at number two on the&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Hot 100. That same year, he was also featured on single &#8220;For the Night&#8221; by Pop Smoke and was awarded two iHeartRadio Music Awards. In 2022, he released the collaborative mixtape with YoungBoy Never Broke Again,&nbsp;<em>Better than You<\/em>&nbsp;in addition to his fourth studio album,&nbsp;<em>Baby On Baby 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Early Life<a href=\"https:\/\/auth.fandom.com\/signin?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Frappers.fandom.com%2Fwiki%2FDaBaby%3Fveaction%3Dedit%26section%3D2&amp;uselang=en&amp;metadata=article-registration-edit-article-section\"><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jonathan Lyndale Kirk was born on December 22, 1991, in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at age six, where he spent most of his early years. He attended Vance High School, now called Julius L. 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