After getting fired from multiple legal-sector jobs, Fergie Baby started secretly filming music videos inside Empire’s offices. Instead of firing him, the label signed him.
Fergie Baby’s signing story sounds less like a polished industry tale and more like the kind of Harlem legend that gets better every time somebody tells it outside the studio at 2 a.m. He was working at Empire as a studio assistant after getting fired from three legal-sector jobs, sneaking music videos into office hours when nobody was around, and betting on himself because the 9-to-5 life felt like a cage.
Then the cameras caught up with him. Instead of getting fired, Fergie Baby says the label boss found out he worked there and had a different reaction: sign him.
That is the Fergie Baby formula in miniature. Break the rule, make it undeniable, and let Harlem do the talking. Now, with music featuring A$AP Ferg and Cam’ron and a debut album called God Is From Harlem on the way, Fergie Baby is trying to turn his own story into another chapter in Harlem’s long, loud, beautifully stubborn cultural history.
Fergie Baby’s Empire Story Starts With Breaking the Rules
Before Empire, before the co-signs, and before the Harlem torch talk, Fergie Baby was trying to make a degree make sense. He went to Penn State, earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, and came home thinking the legal field might be the path.
It was not.
“I kept getting fired from everything,” Fergie Baby said. “So I told myself, nah, I got to create and move as my own boss and have my things the way I want to run.”
The pivot came through his brother and exclusive producer, Cajun Waters, who was engineering at an Empire-owned studio. …
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Author: Kyle Rosner / High Times
