While promoting his new album, Be More Grateful, DaBaby returns the praise to A$AP Rocky, who recently delivered a major lyrical co-sign to the North Carolina rapper.
During a recent episode of the Bootleg Kev Podcast, host Bootleg Kev brought up Rocky’s praise while discussing the Harlem rapper’s chart-topping album Don’t Be Dumb. Kev noted that Rocky called DaBaby the only artist he has ever allowed to help write his lyrics and labeled him “one of the dopest lyricists in all of hip-hop.”
DaBaby, who is currently promoting his new album Be More Grateful, responded with appreciation but made sure to draw a line between collaboration and ghostwriting.
“And I fuck with A$AP, man,” DaBaby said. “Bruh so musically inclined.” He explained that Rocky invited him to “pull up” during recording sessions. “I was working with him. I don’t know if it was for this album or whatever… He said he was working on this album.”
Still, DaBaby stressed that none of their work together appears on Don’t Be Dumb.
“Even the way bruh put this message out there, like bruh so selfless, like he got n****s thinking like I wrote something that’s on this album,” he said. “The shit we worked on, it ain’t even on there — you know what I’m sayin’.”
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Rather than focus on speculation, DaBaby highlighted Rocky’s character. “Just hats off to bruh, just being a real n***a, man. Even just mentioning that, he didn’t have to mention that.”
He described their studio time as locked-in and intentional. “Get in the room with him and work for those couple of days that we did. Get up and lock in.”
What stood out most was Rocky’s creative process. “It’s just dope to see his creative process and how he got everything, like vision boards, and all that shit. Like, bruh really an artist. Artistic as hell.”
For DaBaby, the praise wasn’t about credits. “We were really just vibing, bruh,” he said, calling Rocky’s comments “a selfless way of giving a n***a his flowers.”
As Be More Grateful rolls out, the moment serves as a reminder that peer respect still carries weight in hip-hop.