Lil Baby has opened up about how he coped with the pressures of becoming successful, explaining that in the early days of his fame, the rapper found himself in a “dark spot”.The revelation came in an interview with fellow rapper Big Loon, with Lil Baby – real name Dominique Jones – appearing on his podcast The Experience.
Around halfway into their hourlong chat, Loon and Jones spoke about how a position of influence can affect a young rapper’s psyche; asked outright if he enjoyed his life, Jones said: “Yeah.
There’s a long time [where] I wasn’t happy, but now I’m finally in a stage where I can wake up and be happy.”Reflecting on what brought him down for that period of time, Jones continued: “I had a lot of shit I was going through.
Getting adjusted to this shit, changing, having to stop being around people I’m used to being around, doing things I used to be doing… [But] I know that I can adapt to any environment, so it was just [that] adapting to my new environment put me in a dark spot for a minute.”Jones went on to say that his biggest obstacle in adapting to fame was “really starting everything over, from all the way down to your thoughts”.
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