I was critiquing his music, but also letting him know it sounded good, he should keep going, words of encouragement.” “I kinda helped push a little bit to go harder,” the rapper recalls during a separate phone call. Gunna says he served more as a motivational coach than a source of technical expertise. “He calls me like, ‘Hey, how I do this, how I do that?’ I’m trying to walk him through it, and in the midst of it, I’m like, ‘you want me to just pull up? I can’t explain all of this to you.
“He called me one morning when I’m leaving the studio - he’s at his house, and he’s got all his studio equipment on the ground, and he’s just laying on the ground,” remembers Turbo, who executive produced Drip Harder. Lil Baby also received tips from Turbo, Gunna’s go-to beat-maker and engineer. The simplest thing: how to save a song and send it to my phone.” “When I say basics, I mean the real deal - how to record, you gotta go back and do your ad-libs.
“The basics, he helped me a whole lot,” Lil Baby continues. The two met through a “deceased homie,” and their friendship was cemented through Young Thug, Atlanta hip-hop’s wizard of unorthodox melody, who signed Gunna. “He gave me a lot of insights on how to rap when I first started,” Lil Baby says. Lil Baby didn’t take hip-hop seriously until last year and Gunna, who is 18 months older, was a crucial early influence. Their easy rapport wasn’t an overnight development. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules' That feat put the duo in elite company - the only two singles that brought in more money during those seven days were Kanye West and Lil Pump’s “I Love It” and Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” - which means it’s a good time for Gunna and Lil Baby to release an entire collaborative project, Drip Harder, due out Friday. The size and fervor of their fanbase was proven emphatically by “Drip Too Hard,” which was was one of the top five most-streamed songs in America the week of September 26. They match slippery vocal patterns that keen and decay with instrumentals full of flickering guitars and biting bass, often produced in part by producer Turbo.
On a string of releases - “Oh Okay” with fellow ATLien Young Thug, “Sold Out Dates” and the latest, “Drip Too Hard” - the pair have relied on a simple and beguiling formula: We-made-it boasts delivered in the tone of plaintive ballads. Since February, the young Atlanta rappers Gunna and Lil Baby have become one of the most talked-about combos in hip-hop.
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