Lil Baby says he’s “working” on collaborating with Sabrina Carpenter, but doesn’t want to DM her because he’s afraid of coming off as “weird.”
In an appearance on The New York Times’ Popcast last month, Baby was asked if there are any outside-the-box collaborations he’s eager to do, and he admitted that Sabrina Carpenter would be an ideal pairing for him. Speaking with Nessa Diab, as seen at the 38-minute point of the interview above, Baby was asked what the progress is when it comes to securing a collaboration with Carpenter.
“Not yet, I’m working on it,” he said, smiling. Diab asked him if he could just DM her, or if he would prefer to go through more “professional” channels. “I’d rather just try to get what I need to get done in person,” he continued. “The internet and all that is like… I might come off weird in the DM, you know?”
When he appeared on Popcast, he indicated that he would love to work out a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter, but only if they could get in the studio together.
“I’m still in that box a little bit, but I’m more open to stepping out of the box,” he said on Popcast. “The box is bigger. As I step out a little bit, the box gets bigger. Even a Sabrina Carpenter—just say, for instance, in my head, I don’t have a song on my hard drive to send to her. But if we sit there and create something, or she sends me something, I feel like I could make it work.”
So far, Sabrina Carpenter only has one hip-hop collaboration in her discography. In 2019, she worked with Saweetie on the song “I Can’t Stop Me,” but outside of that, she hasn’t directly collaborated with a rapper since.
