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Baby Pluto

2020 song by Lil Uzi Vert

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ96372943
Source-derived summary

"Baby Pluto" is a song by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert. It was released on March 6, 2020, as the first track on their second studio album Eternal Atake. The track peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.

Music video

An official lyric video was released on May 2, 2020. The entire video is in claymation, which was made and directed by artist Zac Matias, also known online as Lonewolf.

Critical reception

The track received generally positive reviews. Kyann-Sian Williams of NME called the instrumental of the track "clashing". Will Schube of Complex called the lines on the track "stellar". Dylan Green of DJBooth said the track sounded like "a chandelier covered in baguettes gleaming from the inside of a UFO".

Commercial performance

The track debuted at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the second highest-charting track (behind "Futsal Shuffle 2020" at number five).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Baby Pluto” as 2020 song by Lil Uzi Vert. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Baby, Pluto and song.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2020-03-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Baby, Pluto and song providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q96372943. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Baby Pluto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.