Following “Bloxk Party,” Sada Baby’s pace slowed down, and he wasn’t being allowed to release music at the speed he had become accustomed to. In 2019, he got a lawyer and bought himself out of the contract with Tee Grizzley. “I wish no harm on him, but I don’t fukk with him,” Sada tells me, looking down at his phone. “What they did to me I wouldn’t have done to nobody.”
Now under a reshaped deal with Warner Bros. subsidiary Asylum Records and free from the clamps of Grizzley Gang, Sada Baby’s last several months have been more productive. On any given week, the only thing in hip-hop that seems guaranteed is that a new Sada Baby music video will surface. His new mixtape Skuba Sada 2, out this week, is a compilation of all the YouTube hits that have yet to hit streaming, with an official debut album due later this year. But he still enjoys the spontaneous excitement of YouTube compared to more official outlets. “If you put shyt on streaming you gotta wait for it to clear, and the labels want to put it on a playlist,” he says. “But I’m just happy as long as I can drop. That’s what you rap for.”
