Lil Baby has revealed that he lost between $8 million and $9 million (£6.4-7.2 million) in one day’s gambling.
He says the realisation of what he had done was what made him quit gambling for good.
The rapper, whose real name is Dominique Armani Jones, guested on Lil Yachty’s A Safe Place podcast where he admitted that losing a fortune in less than two days forced him to get his gambling habit under control.
“$8 million,” he said when asked what was the most he’d lost. “Like one day, probably like 40 hours straight, I lost like $8 million, $9 million. I made myself stop gambling.”
He continued: “I had (4PF rapper and global digital sports platform Fanatics CEO) Mike Rubin write a letter to every casino and ban me from the casino. I just do s**t. I don’t gamble no more.”
Lil Baby rose to prominence following the release of his 2017 mixtapes Harder than Hard and Too Hard, the former of which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 entry with its lead single, My Dawg.
He’s looking to kick off 2025 on a high note as he readies a brace of albums, the first of which, WHAM (Who Hard As Me), is set to arrive on 3 January.