Earlier this week, Akademiks reported the North Carolina rapper’s latest album Baby On Baby 2 is projected to earn 16,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, placing it outside of the top 20 on the Billboard 200.

Comparatively, his last studio album, 2020’s Blame It On Baby, debuted at No. 1 on the chart after opening with a significantly higher 124,000 album-equivalent units.

The media personality subsequently suggested DaBaby is being ostracized by the powers that be in the rap industry, pointing the finger at Apple Music and Hot 97’s Ebro Dardenin particular.

“His new project after being blackballed by Ebro, Apple Music is scheduled to do less than 20K,” he tweeted on Wednesday (September 28). “Now yall understand my Ebro convo…. DSPs control who is hot and who is not. Fall out of favor with them.. UR DONE.”

Meek and Boosie both took to Twitter on Thursday (September 29) to echo Akademiks’ sentiments after learning about DaBaby’s sales slump.

“They blatantly blackballing da baby .. not my business but ima observer,” Meek wrote, while an enraged Boosie added: “Ain’t no way my n-gga @DaBabyDaBaby supposed to sell 16k after selling almost 150k his last first week ‼️

“He one of the BIGGEST n this shit ‼️I DONT KNOW WHATS GOING ON BUT SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY GOING ON ‼️”

DaBaby reacted to his low sales forecast himself earlier this week and touted it as a victory in the face of the alleged conspiracy to cripple his career.

“Not bad for da BlackBalled Baby,” he wrote in on his Instagram Stories next to a post reporting his projected 16,000 first-week units.