Lil Baby’s Net Worth 2023
Lil Baby has a net worth of $4 million as of 2022. This article will take you on his successful journey. Dominique Jones, better known as Lil Baby, is an Atlanta-based American rapper, singer and songwriter. Jones’ best-known songs include “My Dawg,” “Freestyle,” “Yes Indeed” and “Drip Too Hard.”
Lil Baby is an American rapper who has a net worth of $5 million. His 2018 debut album, Harder Than Ever, was certified platinum and peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart. Its 2020 follow-up, My Turn, was even more successful, topping the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and going triple platinum. Lil Baby has also released several mixtapes and collaborated with numerous artists including Gunna, Moneybagg Yo, Ralo, Lil Uzi Vert, Kodak Black, Gucci Main, Offset, Young Thug, Lil Yachty and Lil Durk. In 2020, he directed his “On Me” music video, as well as the Rylo Rodriguez music videos for “Hear This” and “Walk” (starring Lil Baby and 42 Dugg).
Lil Baby was born Dominique Armani Jones on December 3, 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father left him when Lil Baby was 2 years old and he was raised by his single mother. Raised with two sisters, he dropped out of Booker T. Washington High School during his freshman year. In 2012, Lil Baby was arrested on multiple charges including possession of drugs with intent to sell. His attorney tried to talk him into a two-year deal, after which Lil Baby hired a new attorney who put him in a program that would only hold him for a year. While participating in this program, he got into a fight with an inmate who made racist remarks, resulting in Lil Baby having to serve out the original two-year deal. In 2013, he was charged with possession of marijuana, and the following year he was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell. After two years in prison, Lil Baby began his rap career with Quality Control Music and his own label, 4PF (4 Pockets Full).
Lil Baby released his debut mixtape, Perfect Timing, in April 2017, followed by Harder Than Hard in July, 2 The Hard Way (featuring Marlo) in October, and Too Hard in December. “Too Hard” was certified Gold, peaking at #80 on the Billboard 200 chart and #33 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The mixtape included the single “Freestyle”, which was certified 2× platinum; the music video for “Freestyle” has been viewed more than 400 million times on YouTube. Another single from Too Hard, All of a Sudden (featuring Moneybagg Yo), went platinum and peaked at #20 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart. On May 18, 2018, Lil Baby released the studio album “Harder Than Ever” which included the gold single “Southside” and the 6x platinum single “Yes Indeed”. He then released the mixtapes Drip Harder (featuring Gunna) in October and Street Gossip in November. “Drip Harder” went platinum and “Street Gossip” went gold; both mixtapes reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, and Drip Harder’s singles “Drip Too Hard” (featuring Gunna) and “Close Friends” went 9x platinum and 4x platinum, respectively. In September 2018, Lil Baby appeared on Adult Swim’s “FishCenter Live” and in December of that year he was featured on Yung Gravy’s single “Alley Oop.” received 9x platinum and 4x platinum respectively. In September 2018, Lil Baby appeared on Adult Swim’s “FishCenter Live” and in December of that year he was featured on Yung Gravy’s single “Alley Oop.” received 9x platinum and 4x platinum respectively. In September 2018, Lil Baby appeared on Adult Swim’s “FishCenter Live” and in December of that year he was featured on Yung Gravy’s single “Alley Oop.”
In 2019, Lil Baby appeared as himself in the MTV movie How High 2 and performed on Wild ‘N Out. He also released the singles “Phone Down” (featuring Stefflon Don), “Out the Mud” (featuring Future), “Baby” (featuring Quality Control and DaBaby), “Toast Up” (featuring Ali Tomineek and Shad on the Beat) and the 3x platinum single “Woah”. His second studio album My Turn was released on February 28, 2020 and included the platinum singles Sum 2 Prove, Emotionally Scarred and The Bigger Picture. Twelve songs from the album made the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In June 2020, Lil Baby released the protest song “The Bigger Picture” in the wake of the George Floyd protests. He donated proceeds from the song to Black Lives Matter, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Bail Project and Breonna Taylor’s attorney. The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned Lil Baby two Grammy nominations. He also sang the song at the 2021 Grammy Awards. In March 2021, it was featured on Drake’s single “Wants and Needs,” which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In June 2021, he released the collaborative album The Voice of the Heroes with Lil Durk, which reached #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Lil Baby and model/entrepreneur Jayda Cheaves welcomed son Loyal on February 18, 2019. The couple have been together since 2016 and Cheaves starred in his Close Friends music video. Lil Baby also has a son, Jason, from a previous relationship with a woman named Ayesha. In May 2021, the rapper accompanied George Floyd’s family to the White House for the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s assassination. They met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. In July 2021, Lil Baby was arrested in Paris for cannabis possession. The next morning he was released from police custody and ordered to pay a fine.
Lil Baby has been nominated for three Grammys: Best Rap/Sung Performance for Drip Too Hard (2020) and Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for The Bigger Picture (2021). In 2020, he received MTV Video Music Award nominations for Song of Summer (“We Paid”) and Video for Good (“The Bigger Picture”), and in 2021 he won nine ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards, including Songwriter of the Year . In 2019 he received a BET Award for Best New Artist and in 2021 he was recognized as Best Male Hip-Hop Artist. “The Bigger Picture” earned Lil Baby a 2020 BET Hip Hop Award for Impact Track, and in 2021 he won an IHeartRadio Music Award for Hip-Hop Album of the Year for “My Turn.”
| Assets: | $5 million |
| Birth date: | Dec 3, 1994 (27 years old) |
| Place of birth: | Atlanta, Georgia, US |
| Gender: | Masculine |
| Profession: | rapper |