Then the work came fast: Within a year of starting to rap, he’d released six mixtapes and a full-length album, 2018’s Harder Than Ever. But two years on a possession charge gave him more time to think than he wanted. He’d had encouragement-Pee and Coach K, the Atlanta kingmakers/Quality Control heads who helped launch Migos, had been on him since he was a teenager hustling dice in the street-but Baby wasn’t interested. The story goes that Lil Baby (born Dominique Jones in 1994) didn’t even really want to rap.