Lil Baby has come a long way since his days of hustling and gambling in the streets of Atlanta before his rap fame.
He recently took some time to reflect the early stages of his journey, back when he was only four figures a show.
“Stay down keep grinding,” he wrote on his Instagram Story alongside a crumbled list of 2017 show invoices.
The invoice included a handful of show fees in the fall of 2017 running through the south, which ranged from just $2,500 to $5,500. Find the post below.
Lil Baby revisits modest concert earnings from 6 years ago: “Stay down keep grinding” https://t.co/52WCdDsvQrpic.twitter.com/uKrzDt4Snf
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) November 26, 2023
In just six years, Baby has been able to stack millions up in the bank as one of rap’s blossoming stars in the second half of the 2010s.
In 2020, the 4PF honcho revealed to The Breakfast Club that his $100,000 feature fee was only a quarter of his show price, meaning he was getting $400,000 per concert during the pandemic.
“I had the biggest album, the biggest point of my career through the pandemic,” he said. “So, the money that I’m making now in the pandemic is still bigger than the money that I was making before the pandemic, if you get what I’m saying. The level that I done went to, even though it’s a pay cut, it’s damn near the same.
“I was supposed to make it to the $40 million, $50 million a year off touring bracket,” he continued. “But I’m still making more than what I was making when I just was getting $100 bands a show or whatever the case may be.”
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These days, Lil Baby’s feature price is considerably higher. He told The Experience Podcast with Big Loon in October 2022 that he charges anywhere from of $250,000 to $350,000 for a guest verse.
“I don’t even be doing features no more,” Baby claimed at the time. “But like 300[K], 350[K]. 250[K], 300[K], something like that.”
Baby is set to return to the stage for a Lil Baby & Friends concert in his hometown of Atlanta, taking over State Farm Arena on December 27.
