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Big Baby Gandhi

Bangladesh-born American rapper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ30083816
Source-derived summary

Nafis, known by his stage name Big Baby Gandhi, is a Bangladesh-born American rapper from Queens, New York. His first mixtape, Big Fucking Baby, was released in 2011 to highly positive reception from music critics. As a result of the attention he got from his first mixtape, Gandhi was signed to Greedhead Music, on which he released his second mixtape, No1 2 Look Up 2, in 2012. Artists featured on No1 2 Look Up 2 include Das Racist (on "Blue Magic"), and Fat Tony (on "Lurkin'"). In early 2013, he posted on his Tumblr that he would retire from making rap music after 2013. On December 6, 2013, he released his first full-length album, Debut. Big Baby Gandhi came out of retirement in 2017 with his release 27 and proceeded to drop various loose tracks since. In 2019 Big Baby Gandhi released a studio album We Live In A Society with features from Mr. MFN eXquire and Victor Freeze.

Critical reception

Robert Christgau has given A− grades to both of Gandhi's mixtapes.

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“Big Baby Gandhi” enters the record as bangladesh-born American rapper. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Baby, Gandhi and Bangladesh-born can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2012, 2013, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Baby, Gandhi and Bangladesh-born.
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This entry incorporates text from Big Baby Gandhi” 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.