Lil Baby recently sat down for an interview with 16 Bars, where he opened up about his friendship with Gunna. He explained that they have a close relationship because they met outside of the rap game.
Around the 4:45 mark, Lil Baby reveals that he wasn't rapping when he first met Gunna, and he added that he paid Gunna to write songs for him when he first started out. He explained, "I done paid Gunna to write my songs. I never put the songs out, but when I first started to rap I used to pay him like $100 like, 'Imma give you $100, write something for me so I can try to learn how to go in there and record it.'... That's how I used to practice."
This comes after Gunna told Rolling Stone, "I kinda helped push [Lil Baby] a little bit to go harder. He didn’t really care about [rapping] that much. He was being him, just chilling. I was critiquing his music, but also letting him know it sounded good, he should keep going, [offering] words of encouragement."
