Last week, Baby Keem answered those questions. When he returned, would he be met with the same level of buzz and anticipation? Or would he miss the window for his true breakout moment? Like the rest of the industry, Keem went quiet, only resurfacing for the occasional tweet about how he had “more stories to tell.” It’s rare to see a new artist catch lightning in a bottle like Keem did in late 2019, so there was some cause for concern when he completely hit the brakes and halted all momentum. That’s my life.”Īfter paying his dues working behind the scenes with some of the biggest artists in the world, Die For My Bitch became a critical darling, and he seemed primed for a real coming out-party to a mainstream audience. “Me as a whole, Baby Keem the artist, Hykeem Carter.
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Keem, who is rumored to be Kendrick’s cousin, had spent the past couple years quietly working on Top Dawg Entertainment projects, earning songwriting and production credits on Kendrick’s Blank Panther: The Album, Schoolboy Q's Crash Talk, and Jay Rock's Redemption, among others. “ everything,” he later told Crack Magazine. On March 4, he tweeted, “Keem season.” The next day, he starred in a visual mission statement video for Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free’s mysterious new project, pgLang.
“When you come see the crib, you better die, hoe.” And for a little extra intrigue sprinkled on top of it all, his name was in headlines because Twitter kept banning its users for quoting his lyrics. In mid-January, he earned his first Billboard Hot 100 entry with “Orange Soda.” A week later, Die For My Bitch entered the Billboard 200 albums chart, six months after its release. There isn’t an emerging rapper on the planet who had a better end to 2019 than Baby Keem.īaby Keem’s first few months of 2020 weren’t bad, either. And on Christmas Day, Drake enthusiastically told Rap Radar that Die For My Bitch was one of the two best albums of the year (alongside Young Thug’s So Much Fun). By mid-December, Keem was sitting down for dinner with Jay-Z. Drake showed up to the Die For My Bitch tour stop in Toronto and J.I.D. As the set went on, even the most uptight journalists and A&Rs in the crowd couldn’t help themselves from yelling along to each off-the-wall one-liner Keem barked into the mic.įor the next few months, the buzz around Baby Keem kept multiplying. Somewhere, I imagine Curtis Jackson was proud. Lil Dicky’s curly mop of hair bounced around in the pit. Then, as the beat from Die For My Bitch standout “Moshpit” kicked in, he exploded into a barrage of high-pitched yelps. Playing up the drama of the moment, Baby Keem stared down the crowd with Playoff Bron meme intensity, nine months before the Lakers actually dismantled the Blazers in the bubble.
The small venue was crawling with journalists and industry types who had been hearing the same whispers for months: Was this teenage rapper from Las Vegas really the next big thing? Everyone was in the building that night to see if he could live up to the hype. It was November 17, 2019, and Baby Keem was in town to headline his first New York show. Somewhere in a sea of limbs, Lil Dicky thrashed around in a mosh pit. The shoulder-to-shoulder crowd was so packed that the emergency exits were blocked. Inside a sweaty, over-capacity Brooklyn nightclub, ASAP Rocky stood near the back of the room and quietly surveyed the scene unfolding in front of him.
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