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Project Baby 2

2017 album by Kodak Black

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ39059352
Source-derived summary

Project Baby 2 (also called Project Baby 2: All Grown Up on deluxe version) is the fifth mixtape by American rapper Kodak Black. It was released on August 18, 2017, by Dollaz N Dealz, Sniper Gang and Atlantic. It included guest appearances from rappers XXXTentacion, Offset, John Wicks, JackBoy, Birdman, and Lil Wayne.

Music videos were produced for "Transportin'" and "Roll in Peace". Both songs have charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, with "Transportin'" peaking at number 46 and "Roll in Peace" peaking at 31.

Background

The mixtape was released two months after Kodak was released from jail. The cover was shot in Pembroke Pines, Florida, by photographer Ray Yau.

Critical reception

HotNewHipHop rated the album 79% and described it as "complex and confounding".

Commercial performance

Project Baby 2 debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 50,000 album equivalent units, including 39,000 streaming equivalent units, and 8,000 being from pure sales. On December 4, 2018, the album was certified platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over a million units in the United States.

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“Project Baby 2” enters the record as 2017 album by Kodak Black. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Project, Baby and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Project, Baby and album.
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Why this record matters

“Project Baby 2” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Project, Baby and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39059352. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2018.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Project Baby 2” 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.