Lil Baby seems to be a little stir crazy over his inability to tour. Since concerts are on an indefinite hiatus due to coronavirus pandemic, the Quality Control Music/Motown Records artist wants his label to give him millions of dollars if they don’t wanna seem him resort to hustling.
“I told my label, they need to give me $5 million or I’m going to hustle,” he said in an Instagram livestream. “Fuck it! Shit, I can’t be sitting in no house — I get money. Give me $5 million or I’m doing what I do.”
Some of Baby’s social media followers assumed his hustle would be selling drugs, but he denied having any intentions to start dealing.
“Nah, I don’t gotta sell no drugs!” he explained. “You know, I just hustle. Ain’t gotta be no drugs, just something.”
One hustle Baby sounds uninterested in doing is virtual concerts. Although Travis Scott attracted a massive audience with his online performance in partnership with the Fortnite video game, Baby doesn’t like the idea of playing for a digital audience.
“[King] Gouch want me to a virtual show,” he said. “I think that shit corny, man. I ain’t gon’ lie. I damn near just save my money, man, before I get into debt. I don’t think I could look good doing no virtual show.”
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Gouch continued to pitch virtual concerts to Baby in the livestream’s comments, bringing up Scott’s 12.3 million viewers. Those numbers appeared to intrigue the Atlanta-bred rapper, who conceded he’d be willing to do it if he got “more than half of the money.”
Check out the full clip from Baby’s Instagram Live session above.