DaBaby Biography: Real Name, Age, Parents, Hometown, Girlfriend, Net-Worth, Career, Awards,Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

DaBaby born Jonathan Lyndale Kirk is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina.

He began rap in the year 2015 under the name Baby Jesus but soon changed it to DaBaby.

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His debut studio album Baby on Baby (2019) peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200.

Let’s take a look at his biography below.

DaBaby Real Name

He was born Jonathan Lyndale Kirk but he goes by the stage name DaBaby. He was formerly known as Baby Jesus and even named a single of his Baby Jesus.

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DaBaby Age

He was born on the 22nd of December, 1991. He is 29 years old.

DaBaby Hometown

He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

DaBaby Early Life and Education

He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1999, where he would spend most of his early years.

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He attended Vance High School where he graduated in 2010. He attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for two years, but did not complete his studies, saying he only went to school for his parents’ sake.

He grew up listening to Eminem, 50 Cent and Lil Wayne with his two older brothers.

DaBaby Career

DaBaby began taking music seriously between 2014 and 2015. In 2015, he started off his music career by releasing Nonfiction, his debut mixtape.

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He initially performed under the name Baby Jesus, which he eventually changed out of concern that it had become a distraction.

DaBaby got his big break after signing to Arnold Taylor, the president of the South Coast Music Group label, a big radio promoter.

Taylor saw DaBaby perform around North Carolina clubs at the time he was launching his label. Taylor had been responsible in the early rise of Southern rap stars including Yo Gotti and Future.

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Once they started working together, the team kept building buzz around the South with mixtapes and club shows, while DaBaby was finding his sound.

Through his deal with South Coast, DaBaby signed a short-lived distribution deal with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation for his Blank Blank mixtape that would prove to be his breakout in late 2018.

Thanks to the guidance of Taylor, and following major label bidding wars, DaBaby landed a seven-figure recording deal with Interscope.

DaBaby Incident

In November of 2018, while shopping with his family at a Walmart in Huntersville, North Carolina, Kirk was approached by several men.

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An altercation broke out and gunfire ensued, resulting in the death of 19-year-old Jalyn Domonique Craig. Kirk, while involved in the dispute, did not admit to firing the fatal shots and was not charged with any crime connected to the incident.

After releasing several mixtapes between 2014 and 2018, DaBaby rose to mainstream prominence in 2019.

His 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.

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The albums produced the Billboard Hot 100 hit singles “Suge”, “Intro”, and “Bop”. His third studio album, Blame It on Baby (2020), became his second consecutive number-one album in the US.

It also produced DaBaby’s highest-charting song, “Rockstar” featuring Roddy Ricch, which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

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