DDG Appears to Comment on Halle Bailey Custody Battle in New Song: ‘I Don’t Wanna Fight No More’

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DDG raps astir however he's "tired of the tribunal dates" and "watchin' wealth spell to waste."

Halle Bailey and DDG

Halle Bailey and DDG be the 66th GRAMMY Awards astatine Crypto.com Arena connected February 04, 2024 successful Los Angeles, Calif. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

DDG seems to notation his ongoing custody conflict with Halle Bailey successful his caller opus “17 More Years.”

The track, which appears connected the streamer and rapper’s latest medium Moo, finds DDG saying however he’s “tired of the tribunal dates” and “watchin’ wealth spell to waste,” and that, “If we talk, it’ll get better, spell up and driblet the case.”

“We should each get unneurotic connected his birthday, airy the cake,” DDG sings, seemingly referencing their shared son, Halo. DDG besides dropped disconnected the track’s minimalistic video connected Friday (Oct. 10), which finds DDG moving done the opus connected apical of a California hilltop astatine dusk.

The opus arrives aft tribunal documents emerged successful August that showed that the erstwhile mates and their lawyers had gone to a Los Angeles tribunal for a custody and home violence-related hearing. Bailey had previously filed and won a impermanent home unit restraining bid against DDG (real name: Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr.) backmost successful June, and soon thereafter won impermanent custody of her son. It was besides reported that DDG countered with a restraining bid petition of his own, claiming the parent of his 1-year-old son, Halo, threatened termination aggregate times — which Bailey denied.

“I person been precise vocal astir my anxiety, depression, and erstwhile thoughts of suicide,” Bailey wrote successful a declaration to the court. “Without waiving the psychotherapist-patient privilege and physician-patient privilege, I person reached retired to my doc and received attraction to code these issues. I person been and stay 100% disposable and susceptible arsenic a genitor to our son, Halo.”

She besides said that DDG, “has exaggerated, lied, and misconstrued for the tribunal not lone the past of our narration but our parenting and my intelligence health.”

DDG and Halle Bailey went nationalist with their narration successful January 2022 and called it quits past October.

Watch the euphony video for “17 More Years” below.


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