During a conversation with Complex for their cover story, Lil Baby revealed his surprising reflective thoughts on his 2022 album, It's Only Me. If you don't recall, while the album performed very well commercially, a lot of fans didn't like it, and made their disdain for the project very clear on social media. A lot of die-hards and casual listeners alike might've assumed that, no matter how panned a record becomes, its artist still feels proud of it at the end of the day... Or at least, the commercial success helps them forget about it. But for the Atlanta MC, it seems like this wasn't the case at all.
"I didn’t even want to put It’s Only Me out at the time, because I wasn’t ready," Lil Baby confessed to the publication, indicating that he felt label pressure and put out something he didn't feel passionate about as a result. "I wasn’t in [the right] headspace. Those were songs I was just making, but it was nothing that I really loved, and nothing I even really liked." Of course, it still became his third platinum album and No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart, but he clearly cares about more important things.
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Fortunately for Lil Baby, he feels much more proud about his recently released comeback album WHAM and its upcoming follow-up, Dominique. Even though some haters will always hate, his hardcore supporters feel much more satisfied with this shorter and more distinct batch of tracks this time around. As for the next project on the way, Baby told Lil Yachty on his A Safe Place podcast that it will represent a more vulnerable side of him that aims for more emotional resonance.
WHAM also found great commercial success, becoming yet another No. 1 album for Lil Baby and, along with Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, the blockbuster release that kicked 2025 off. Now that we know his thoughts on It's Only Me, it's heartening to see that he feels much more proud of this body of work while still finding a massive audience for it, regardless of whether you like the LP or not.
