Lil Baby returned with his Fresh album and gave his release week a jolt with the arrival of the “From the Back (Remix)” on Tuesday (Nov. 10), which features an assist from Chris Brown.
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The remix didn’t come as a major surprise to die-hard Baby fans, as the Atlanta rapper has teased the Breezy vocals on social media in recent weeks.
This marks the second official collaboration between Baby and CB, and their first since 2022’s “Addicted,” which landed on Brown’s Breezy album and peaked at No. 92 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Atlanta native’s rugged raps mixed with Breezy’s melodies balance out the trap&B collab, where CB is right at home.
“Have your baby mama in a crisis/ Chrome Heart Aventador for my daughter, she ain’t even got her license/ I know n—as plot against me/ Same n—as start to wish me well, but I ain’t tripping,” Brown rhymes.
“From the Back” features a sample of Mykko Montana and K Camp’s 2011 Southern hit “Do It,” which was also sampled by Lil Uzi Vert on 2019’s “Sanguine Paradise.”
Lil Baby’s Fresh arrived on Nov. 6 as the rapper seeks his fifth No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The 31-year-old stopped by The Tonight Show on Sunday (Nov. 8) to deliver an orchestra-led performance of his top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Dead Fresh.”
In an interview with Hot 97 that arrived Monday (Nov. 9), Baby addressed the chatter about him falling off, but he attributed those claims to a wider lens about hip-hop as a whole not having as much of a stranglehold commercially on the charts compared to past years.
“Hip-hop has fallen off, but I’m hip-hop so we gotta get this s–t together,” he said while taking responsibility for the mainstream step-back from the genre.
As for Chris Brown, he’s continuing his five-night stay in Atlanta for his R&B Tour with Usher, which resumes with a fourth ATL show on Tuesday.
Listen to the “From the Back (Remix)” below.
