DJ Akademiks' beef with Lil Baby has been ongoing for a while now, and he has mostly refused to lay off it. This has been especially true in the aftermath of Baby's new album, Fresh. The project is set to sell 60K units in the first week, and Ak has sent a warning to Apple Music and Spotify as he believes fake streams could be in play.
On Wednesday night, Akademiks was streaming, and it was here that he detailed a recent conversation he had with executives over at Capitol Records. Essentially, the commentator alleges that he received a phone call from someone at the label asking if the beef was "salvageable."
The label had big plans to promote the album, including a late-night TV performance. This turned out to be The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, as Baby ended up performing "Dead Fresh."
As for the central question of the phone call, Akademiks was brutally honest with the label. He told them that the relationship cannot be salvaged, and that he had zero interest in helping to promote the album.
DJ Akademiks Refuses To End Lil Baby Beef
Throughout the clip above, Akademiks can be heard celebrating Baby's supposed "flop." Moreover, he began playing "Dead Fresh" and dancing along to it. In his mind, this was okay to do, seeing as though the album has flopped already.
It was an incredibly petty move from Akademiks, although it is not a surprising one. The streamer has consistently been going after Lil Baby over the past few years, and he was simply continuing the trend.
With Baby's relevance beginning to decrease, Akademiks appears to be taking pride in all this. Ak has displayed this kind of pettiness with Meek Mill, and that is a beef that has gone on for over a decade. With that in mind, Baby's label shouldn't expect this to end, anytime soon.
