DDG (2022 – present)
Halle Bailey is currently dating rapper DDG. The two were linked when they were seen together at an Usher concert in January 2022.
Halle was actually a huge fan of DDG before they started dating when she told Essence in 2022, “I’ve been a fan of his for years,” she says. “I grew up being on YouTube and would always see the young Black creators and was constantly inspired by them. He was one of them.”
After a while, she lost contact with him, but all roads lead back to love. “I completely forgot about him,” Halle said. “But then I saw that he was dropping music, and I really gravitated toward this one song. Coincidentally he messaged me—and the rest is history.”
They had their red carpet debut at the 2022 BET Awards and she starred in his music video for the song “If I Want You.” The couple was embroiled in a couple of cheating scandals that were proven false by the couple themselves.
“All these girls the same, ain’t no way,” he wrote in a now-deleted tweet. Fans and even Halle’s older sister Ski theorized the tweet could have been directed towards cheating, but the rapper clarified. “Nobody cheated on nobody btw. Don’t take my tweets too serious.”
Nonetheless, Halle gushes about her love life a lot and recounted an important lesson from her family. “Make sure you never interrupt your work ethic’” she explained. “My business and my work life are the priority, because at the end of the day I want my family and my future children to have a beautiful life. Love is great, and love feels wonderful—but never neglect your work.”
She looks towards the future, “I want to have like 10 babies and go live on a farm and have a great house,” she said. “I wanna grow my own food and have an oasis away from the world, where my family and I go and have a great time.”
After the rumors emerged, British Vogue said that she settled the problems with her boyfriend and she then talked about how it affected her outlook on life. “Experiencing deep love for the first time in my life is something I feel has opened a whole new world for me creatively,” she told the publication. “What it feels like to love someone other than your family, like somebody you may not have known two years ago but now they’re the centre of your world. I like all of the scary feelings that come with that. I like the suspense, the not knowing what’s going to happen, and I feel like that’s what I’m supposed to be going through in womanhood.”
She continued, “It’s also deeply sacred. There’s a lot of eyes on me now, especially with what’s to come. And sometimes I wish I didn’t have so many eyes on me, especially experiencing something like this for the first time.”
As for DDG, the love is abundant on his end too. “I’ve never been with nobody that’s like really motivated me like [Halle] do,” he explained on The Breakfast Club in November 2022. “I’m seeing different s**t. I ain’t really been around this type of s**t before, so it’s like, she’s bringing me around s**t that I ain’t really—you know what I’m saying? ‘Oh, this is crazy. This is dope.’ You know what I mean? I was my own person before her, but in a way, put me on to different s**t. That’s dope because I’m usually the one putting motherf**kers on.”
