Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Baby Gap. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Baby, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

For a majority of my life I was an athlete and that was my identity. I started played soccer in 7th grade and spent the following 10 years trying to go professional, and I wouldn’t admit this back then but I simply didn’t have the discipline for it. Another thing I wasn’t willing to admit back then is that it wasn’t my first true love, music was. Since a child I’ve been making jingles for show and tell at school or writing poems and practicing rhymes. I’ve never done anything in my life without music involved, so I was aware it was truly my passion. After a decorated career on the field, garnering in a high school state championship and earning All-American honors, I decided to call it quits in the summer of 2023 and fully pursue my creative career, and it’s a decision I myself wish I would’ve taken sooner, but I have accepted and made peace with the fact that I actually probably started at the perfect time in my life. I’ve been through a lot as an athlete and those experiences have actually helped me in musical journey. I’ve had the opportunity to grow in so many different ways because of soccer and I’ll always be grateful for my playing days. I’m only 22 so I am still fairly young, and the same competitor I was on the field is still there, now just behind a microphone and in front of big crowds in the future.

Baby, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I’m Baby Gap, most popularly known as Baby G, and I am a Nigerian-born, California-based artist.

Given that I’ve moved around a majority of my life, I’ve been able to be witness to multiple different people with unique cultures and backgrounds, and therefore I’ve had the chance to listen to so much different types of music. I’ve become the artist I am today because of this, and my biggest thing in my craft is making sure I stay versatile and always trying to make different types of music.

I am a firm believer that music is spiritual and it’s something we humans can use in a positive way to bring each other closer together. Therefore, as an artist wanting to reach as my ears and hearts as possible, I always encourage myself to make something different. I don’t ever wanna have a sole group of people that can be identified as my fans. I want them to be all different ages, shapes and sizes and from all walks of life. I want Sally from Miami to be able to press play on a Baby G song and enjoy it, and for Deshaun in Compton to do the same exact thing. Two different people, but what brings them together is good music; that is my end goal.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

Like I said before I wanna bring people together and be a light in other peoples lives. I want to have fun and obviously succeed in music (Billboard hits, sold out shows, timeless classic anthems) but I think more importantly what drives me is the fact that I can use my success from music to help put others in a position to succeed as well. I have family back home in Nigeria that could use help. I have friends even here in the states that I would love to invest in because I truly believe in them and what they can do to make this world a better place. I have a list of charities I want to help and certain social projects that I want to support, but they all require quite a bit of money, or at least a big enough influence to encourage people to help, so the more I grow as an artist, the more I want to focus on using my success to pour light into other peoples lives and spread love.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me personally, I think it’s the freedom and the fun. Making music is so fun and if you’re really passionate about it, it can be away of setting you free and expressing yourself. Me as a person isn’t all different as me the artist, so I use music to express myself to the fullest and let my emotions be heard. Listening back to a great recording session, playing your favorite songs with your best friends, performing your song in front of hundreds of thousands of people; these are all other aspects of creating that are so rewarding. It’s one thing for you yourself to love your music, but once you see other people genuinely vibing to something you made, it unlocks a whole different level of joy, and it helps keep you going as an artist as well

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babygap_nbe/profilecard/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/babygap_nbe
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@babygtunes?si=e_q7cu2A_kSCCZp7
• Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/FLY9xphv6qG38ztb8
• Other: Spotify -https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ghTyjCdmju2O2euFPiu88?si=n1uohoDpQbuiYxUWPP5tCA

  Apple – https://music.apple.com/us/artist/baby-gap/1696621156

Image Credits

“Baby Fever” album cover photo
Credits – Dan Jenks