CULTURETECHLENSLil Baby
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07020 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5754.
Lil Baby, born Dominique Armani Jones on 3 December 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American rapper. He rose through 2017 mixtapes — Perfect Timing, Harder Than Hard, Too Hard — signed to Quality Control Music under Motown and Capitol, and founded his own 4PF imprint. His debut Harder Than Ever (2018) carried the Drake-featuring "Yes Indeed"; the Gunna joint mixtape Drip Harder (2018) and The Voice of the Heroes with Lil Durk (2021) followed. My Turn (2020) spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was the best-selling album of 2020 in secondary counts; "The Bigger Picture" (2020) reached No. 3 on the Hot 100. WHAM, released 3 January 2025, debuted at No. 1 with 140,000 units — his fourth No. 1 album — and he won the Grammy for Best Melodic Rap Performance for Kanye West's "Hurricane" in 2022.
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Lil Baby, born Dominique Armani Jones on 3 December 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American rapper. He rose through 2017 mixtapes — Perfect Timing, Harder Than Hard, Too Hard — signed to Quality Control Music under Motown and Capitol, and founded his own 4PF imprint. His debut Harder Than Ever (2018) carried the Drake-featuring "Yes Indeed"; the Gunna joint mixtape Drip Harder (2018) and The Voice of the Heroes with Lil Durk (2021) followed.
The record
- Also known as: Dominique Armani Jones, Dominique Jones
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Lil Baby entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5754 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 241 (Rappers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure. Vital status: LIVING — WHAM released 3 January 2025; WHAM World Tour ran June–October 2025. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): WHAM debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 140,000 first-week units (January 2025), his fourth No. 1 album; one Grammy win ("Hurricane," 2022) — Wikipedia/venue biography, accessed 2026-10-16. His career nomination total conflicts across summaries — three (Wikipedia-derived) versus eight with one win (Grammy-profile summary) — and is not asserted here. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5754-lil-baby.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )
Relationships
- Drake — collaborated with
Lil Baby's debut album Harder Than Ever (2018) carried the Drake-featuring single "Yes Indeed." - Lil Durk — collaborated with
Lil Baby and Lil Durk released the joint album The Voice of the Heroes (2021).
Sources
- Wikipedia, "WHAM (album)" — WHAM debuted No. 1 (chart dated 18 January 2025) with 140,000 units, his fourth No. 1 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHAM_(album) (build store)
- Bridgestone Arena event biography — Quality Control label; My Turn five weeks at No. 1; Grammy win for "Hurricane" — https://www.bridgestonearena.com/events/detail/lil-baby-wham-world-tour (primary source · build store)
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