Akademiks Says Lil Baby's Label Called Him Asking If the Beef Was 'Salvageable,' Then Threw a 'Flop Party'

DJ Akademiks says Lil Baby's own label reached out to him about their beef. On his Kick stream Wednesday night, Ak said: "Yo, the music industry called me the last two days.

DJ Akademiks says Lil Baby's own label reached out to him about their beef. On his Kick stream Wednesday night, Ak said: "Yo, the music industry called me the last two days. Yo, your label executives called me." He said Capitol executives asked if the issue was that serious and whether it was "salvageable," mentioning promo they had planned, including a late-night TV spot. "You know what I told all of them? It is that serious," Ak said. He then threw what he called a "flop party," dancing to Baby's "Dead Fresh" and calling him his "favorite flop-a** rapper". Capitol has not commented on Ak's account. Baby did not mention Ak, but in a Clue Radio interview with DJ Clue posted Wednesday night, he pushed back on the fell-off talk: "The fall off thing is not like a real thing... That's not a fall off in no kind of category, especially where music at today... nobody should be saying Lil Baby fell off. Like, how?" He also said nobody is doing 2020 numbers anymore. FRESH, released Nov 6, is tracking around 60,000 first-week units per chart projections; final numbers are expected this weekend.