Lil Baby Clears Up His “Mary J. Blige Type Hits” Line After Fat Joe’s Face Went Viral
Lil Baby sat down with Fat Joe and Jadakiss on the Joe and Jada podcast, and one line from the conversation has been running around the internet all weekend.
The talk turned to catalogs and ownership. Joe brought up Mary J. Blige and the super bag she got for her catalog, and the conversation turned to what it means to own your music. Then Joe asked Baby about his own records — and Baby said he has Mary J. Blige type hits.
Joe’s face froze before the words even finished landing. “Mary J. Blige type hits?” he asked back, then started in: “Baby, let me explain something.”
The moment got clipped by @nuface with the caption “Fat Joe face when Lil Baby said ‘I got them Mary J Blige hits!'” and took off from there, pulling in hundreds of comments as fans split into camps — Mary’s three decades of classics on one side, Baby’s streaming-era numbers on the other. B.Dot put it back on the timeline Sunday, asking the question everybody else was asking: “why would baby say that.”
Baby jumped into the comments himself to clean it up:
“Check google!! I said ‘same type’, not more then or bigger hits !! I could Never discredit a legend like MarY J”
The page that posted the clip answered him right back: “you supposed to pop it. Real ones understand. Mary forever the Queen.”
And to be fair to Baby, the full conversation was bigger than one line. Joe was pressing him on whether this generation makes records built to live forever or just for the moment, and Baby’s answer was that the timeless ones usually just happen — they can’t be forced.
Watch the clip below and call it yourself: confidence, or did he reach?
Clip: Joe and Jada podcast (Fat Joe and Jadakiss), clipped by @nuface; B.Dot’s post above.
