DaBaby Claims He’s Being Blackballed Since Latest Album Sales Are Tanking

Maybe if he learned respect and stopped being an a**, he'd be doing better.

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Rapper DaBaby claimed he’s being blackballed because of his latest album acquiring lower sales than his previous work.

Despite the hype, DaBaby received from the first track on his album, “Boogeyman,” it wasn’t enough to beat his previous projects’ first-week sales. “Baby On Baby 2,” the sequel to his 2019 album “Baby On Baby,” collected 16,000 units in the first week, which was no match for the 124,000 units he generated

with his 2020 album “Blame It On Baby.”

He took to Instagram to downplay that the album wasn’t as successful as his others and blamed it on him being ostracized.

“Not bad for da BlackBalled Baby,” he wrote.

DaBaby wasn’t the first to blame the business for intentionally causing his album not to do so well. DJ Akademiks blamed Apple Music’s Global Editorial Head of Hip-Hop and R&B, Ebro Darden.

“Da Baby last project in 2020, ‘Blame it on Baby,’ sold 124K first week,” Akademiks argued on Twitter. “His new project, after being blackballed by Ebro, Apple Music, is scheduled to do less than 20K. Now yall understand my Ebro convo…DSP’s control who is hot and who is not. Fall out of favor with them..UR DONE.”

“Apple Music is not the only platform,” his other tweet read. “Based on this dummy’s logic, Da Baby should be doing well on the platform HE works for. Is it?”

Akademiks isn’t the only one. Rapper Meek Mill tweeted that he believed DaBaby was being blackballed.

Others blamed the rapper himself, claiming that his music sounded the same and that his unsolicited opinions got him in this predicament. After all, he began “Boogeyman” by claiming he slept with Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion and disrespected her boyfriend, Pardi.