Update 08/09/2019 10:53am:
Lil Baby recently sparked conversation after telling German outlet 16 Bars, "I done paid Gunna to write my songs." Lil Baby added, "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."
Lil Baby clarified his statement during a recent interview on Big Boy's Neighborhood, where he explained that Gunna was helping him get his thoughts into song form and he added that Gunna never wrote songs for him. Around the 17:54 mark, Lil Baby stated, "Gunna ain't never wrote no song for me. He just showed me how to rap. If he wrote a song, he wrote like what I got going on."
Original 07/16/2019 7:28pm:
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."
