DaBaby is back.

After keeping a low profile this year, the Charlotte rapper returns with Baby on Baby 2the sequel to his 2019 platinum-selling debut studio album. He confirmed the project’s release during an appearance on the Complete shipment podcast in July, claiming it was just around the corner.

“It’s the most attention I’ve given to a piece of music before I dropped it,” DaBaby told the Nelk boys. “I will submit it at the beginning of August. … Baby on Baby 2.”

Nearly two months after the album’s slated release, Baby took to Instagram to promote the video for “Socks,” produced by Pooh Beatz.

“Are you all ready? “#BabyonBabyTWO,” he wrote in the caption. “Don’t call it a b*tch ass n***a comeback!”

The project follows his 2020 album Baby’s fault and collaboration mixtape from March 2022 Better than you with YoungBoy never broke again. DaBaby continued to promote the LP by shedding light on a shooting at his home. The promo clip shows the rapper in the middle of a therapy session, shortly after shooting an intruder at his North Carolina home.

“So, baby, I think you’re still a little traumatized by the shooting that happened at your house that night,” the therapist says, referring to DaBaby opening fire on a man who walked away. is introduced into his property in April. “Can you give me any details as to why you shot this guy while vicious dogs are running around your fucking house? Why don’t you just call the police and let your dogs out, nigga? I think you wanna kill a motherfucker anyway, nigga.

DaBaby has not been charged in the April incident. The intruder reportedly suffered a “non-life threatening gunshot wound”.

You can broadcast Baby on Baby 2 with Anthony Hamilton via Spotify below.

The 14-track offering comes more than a year after the rapper was widely condemned for homophobic remarks he made during Rolling Loud Miami. He spoke about the scandal during his Complete shipment appearance, saying he lost a Burger King contract immediately afterwards.

“I don’t know if I’m supposed to talk about it, but whatever, I don’t care,” he said. “I have my own meal at Burger King. A lot of people don’t know that. It was called the Jonathan Kirk meal. … I shot a commercial for that and all, right before it all blew up. Got my name on the box and everything. But he never came out. That’s when all the crap broke out.