Lil Baby believes female rappers are currently running the rap game, and shouted out Nicki Minaj in particular as the G.O.A.T.
The Atlanta rapper made the comments alongside Rylo Rodriguez during the latest episode of Complex’s G.O.A.T. Talk on Wednesday (July 12), and when asked to name his greatest of all time female rapper, he didn’t hesitate to bring up Nicki Minaj.
“Nicki Minaj for sure,” Baby replied, to which Rylo said: “I agree with that.”
“There’s like crazy, crazy female artists right now,” Baby continued at the two-minute mark. “Females are running the game right now.”
Female rappers have been on a tear these past few years, with Ice Spice, Sexyy Red, GloRilla, Latto, Coi Leray, Cardi B, City Girls, Scar Lip and numerous others making big moves for women in Hip Hop.
Lil Baby’s love of Nicki Minaj should come as no surprise considering he and the Pinkprint rapper recently linked up for the song “Do We Have a Problem?” and Nicki admitted prior to its release last February that Baby “bodied” her on her own track.
“First of all, I want to just say shout out to Lil Baby,” Minaj said on Instagram Live at the time. “Y’all know I always keep it real about verses and all of that… Lil Baby, he might have… ummm… he might have got me!
“But listen, the point is: Lil Baby went super-duper hard — pause — and it’s so refreshing to see people still care about that type of stuff. I still care about it.”
She continued: “I don’t think people didn’t know Lil Baby was nice, but I will say that he pleasantly surprises me all the time. This particular record was just another moment when you could just tell the difference when somebody knows they’re here for a long time.
“The way he pushed himself and his pen, I loved it. He bodied, bodied, bodied. Shout out to him for just being dope and down to earth and sweet. All of that.”
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In other news, the 4PF boss recently announced his headlining It’s Only Us Tour, and he’s bringing GloRilla, The Kid LAROI and more with him for the summer 2023 trek.
Baby revealed plans for the tour via a cinematic trailer shared on social media, which shows him relaxing in a pool when he comes up with the idea for the cross-country trek. He then FaceTimes LAROI and Big Glo, along with fellow supporting acts Hxncho, Gloss Up and 4PF representative Rylo Rodriguez, to see if they’d be down to join him on the road.
The 32-date tour kicks off on July 26 in Houston. From there, Lil Baby and co. will venture through Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston, Baltimore, Memphis, Charlotte and New Orleans, among other cities, before wrapping things up on September 22 in Fort Lauderdale.
The tour is in support of Lil Baby’s third album It’s Only Me, which dropped in October 2022. Featuring appearances from Future, Young Thug, EST Gee and more, the project debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 216,000 first-week sales and has since been certified platinum.
