Jaelin Parker (born December 3, 1996), known professionally as Baby Smoove, is an American recording artist born in Detroit, Michigan.

Although Baby Smoove made his first song when he was 7 years old, he began publishing his music online in 2012 under the alias Bandcrew Smoove—releasing his first song “Supersonic” through his YouTube channel. He changed his moniker to Baby Smoove in 2016 and started releasing music to streaming platforms, kicking this off with dropping Riding With the Goat in late 2017.

He explained how he got the name Baby Smoove in a interview with Our Generation Music.

They’re really two separate names, I just put them together. I had ‘Smoove’ first, though. My friend gave it to me in the ninth grade. It was like our first couple days of high school, and we’re walking through the halls one day and he was like, ‘Why the fuck you walk so smooth?’ His exact words. ‘Nigga, you walk so smooth, your name should be Smoove’ and that’s how it started. […] Yeah, you know, and then the ‘Baby’ is like, I’m the baby. So it’s like, my nigga Baby Smoove. Like how a baby is smooth, you know?

Baby Smoove started to gain recognition in 2019 after dropping his hit single “Akorn” and the release of “Tings”—from his project Purple Heart—which ultimately projected him into the mainstream of Detroit rap. He explains his music as “Gucci Mane” and “Eminem”-inspired combined with a “dry Lil Wayne-ish type [of voice].”