DJ Akademiks Announces He's Making An AI Album To Diss Lil Baby

BY Zachary Horvath
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DALLAS, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 1: DJ Akademiks attends NBA YoungBoy's MASA Tour at American Airlines Center on September 1, 2025 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images)
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DJ Akademiks and Lil Baby's multi-year feud reached new heights this year, with the former demanding the latter to fight him.

Since late January, DJ Akademiks has been on Lil Baby's neck after one of his assistant's, K-Rich, claimed to slap him. This led to a tense response from the streamer and independent hip-hop journalist. "You ducked and then had your p**sy a*s assistant—I'll squabble with you any time. You’re scrawny as f*ck. You're a drug addict, stupid as f*ck," Ak declared. "I've been on that. You DM me, 'Where you at?' I DM you where I'm gonna be at. You never showed up, and you said I was trolling. I will wash you anywhere."

He added, "I'm gonna make this loud. You gotta respond to this. You're gonna either be p**sy or you're gonna stand on it and say, 'I did backdoor that p**sy a*s n****. He thought we was cool.'"

Ak would eventually get what he wanted out of the Atlanta rapper, as the latter accepted his boxing challenge. Adin Ross, who runs his own promotion company, stepped in to try and organize a match. However, due to Baby's steep asking price of $40 million, it appears that led to it being cancelled per Akademiks.

As he explains in a recent livestream clip caught by his secondary page, Akademiks TV, he says "Lil Bebe" set that high price to say that he doesn't want any smoke.

Why Are Lil Baby & DJ Akademiks Beefing?

With that in mind, Ak claims he went down a "rabbit hole" recently to come up with events triathlon or Olympics style to replace the boxing matchup. He says he thought about a math challenge, spelling bee, on top of the fight, which he confidently believes he would have won all three for various reasons.

To "level the playing field" for his longtime foe, Ak distastefully jokes they could have done a pill popping contest and also a rap battle.

However, he's revealed that he's ditching that idea after the recent NFL player shooting news. Instead, he's thinking about bringing back his rapping alter ego, Lil Ak, so he can drop an AI diss album/song. Earlier in the clip, he states that AI is the future in some regard and that it can write better than "95% of rappers."

He believes that Lil Baby is "p**sy" so he's now going to press his buttons and see if he's willing to respond verbally since he won't meet him in the ring.

If you remember Lil Ak dropped songs like "Blues Clues," "Triggers," and "Lanes," in the late 2010s.

As for why Baby and Akademiks are beefing, it's because of that alleged slapping incident. However, their feud dates back the late 2020s with the streamer constantly picking apart the Atlanta native's musical skills being the crux of it all.

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Zachary Horvath is one of the Music Freelance News Writers at HotNewHipHop and has held that title since August 2023. Prior to this position, he held another freelance gig covering local high school football, girls and boys varsity basketball, in addition to recapping Cleveland Cavaliers games remotely. He's taken the previous experience and used it to become a jack of all trades at HotNewHipHop. Zach has thoroughly enjoyed tackling some of the trending topics in sports, with a larger focus on hip-hop and pop culture. Some of those include Bronny James's draft stock, a multitude of angles swirling around the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef, as well as Diddy's arrest and lawsuits. Separate from the headlines that everyone wants to hear about, he was fortunate enough to help spread Zaytoven's current thoughts at the time around mid-December in 2023. Even though being able to give his expertise on these stories is fulfilling, being able to share his passion for releases trumps that ever so slightly. Having the chance to express his excitement indirectly about what he thinks our readers should be checking out/revisiting grows his passion for writing that much more.

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