The album features guest appearances from Quavo from the hip-hop trio Migos, Future, JetsonMade, Roddy Ricch, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, London on da Track, Ashanti, and Megan Thee Stallion.
It features additional guest appearances from Young Thug, Stunna 4 Vegas, Gunna, and Rich Dunk.
The latter reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, with its Black Lives Matter (BLM) remix being included on the deluxe edition.
The hotel staff start shooting down the room to get in and DaBaby, who is hidden with Simone, begins returning fire.
[12] "Rockstar", featuring American rapper Roddy Ricch, was released as the album's second single on June 12, 2020, since DaBaby released a BLM (Black Lives Matter) remix on that day of the song featuring an extra verse from him before the rest of the song, regarding the George Floyd protests that started in May 2020, and his own experience with police abuse.
A new song, "No Dribble" featuring DaBaby's artist Stunna 4 Vegas was released alongside a video as the album's third single on July 27, 2020.
The DJ recalled the great response he received: "I sent out that message online, and 5,000 people hit me [...] My DMs are on smash".
The inspiration for the beat came from the producers wanting "to make something R&B-sounding, so we were working with a guitar loop and a vocal chop".
London, instead, sent the song to DaBaby, and it ended up becoming a "shimmering, melancholy" collaboration with A Boogie wit da Hoodie.
Another German musician, Nils Noehden, sent a "chirpy" riff to producer Wheezy who eventually turned it into "Talk About It".
The production work on "Rockstar", "the immediate fan-favorite from Blame It on Baby", was solely helmed by SethInTheKitchen, a beatmaker acquainted with DaBaby since the rapper was a local talent in Charlotte, North Carolina.
"Rockstar" merges "delicate acoustic guitar with a thundering bass line and a deft verse from Roddy Ricch".
Regarding the album's content as a whole, Rolling Stone's Elias Leight noted: "The album mainly sticks to the succinct, punishing formula DaBaby has perfected on his last four releases: roughly a dozen tracks, most of them less than three minutes long, full of emphatic, slugging rapping and vicious yet melodic bass lines".
[20] In a positive review, Sam Moore of NME wrote that "DaBaby's detractors might not be defeated with Blame It On Baby, but this latest project succeeds by further propelling the rapper's soaring momentum even while in lockdown.
[25] Yoh Phillips of DJBooth called the album "interesting", and said "instead of introducing a new perspective or revealing anything about himself that we didn't already know, DaBaby repeats familiar tropes alongside famous friends and over contemporary productions".
Johnson continued by saying that "While I applaud him for going against the grain of most artists who are holding off of dropping new music during these quarantining times, the album doesn't quite match up to his potential or skillset.
However, Blum praised the song "Blame It on Baby", stating that "the album's payoff arrives on the title track, a two-minute opus that stitches together four beat switches and contorts DaBaby's flow over and over.
The bold, swagger-heavy rap songs are growing more tedious, and the experiments with singing and emotional nuance are mostly underdeveloped.
"[1] Scott Glaysher of HipHopDX wrote that "Blame It on Baby is an obvious misstep in DaBaby's otherwise flawless rise to rap stardom.
Due to the small handful of pulse-pumping tracks and slight variance in his song-making, this album shouldn't automatically mark a downwards trajectory in Baby's career [...] It does show, however, that no buzz lasts forever and impactful music often takes time to create.