DaBaby Lists His Insane North Carolina Mansion For $6.9 Million As He Fights A $1.8 Million IRS Assessment

DaBaby's North Carolina mansion is officially up for grabs. And anyone interested will need just under $7 million, an appreciation for extreme privacy, and presumably a strong desire to have their own football field, movie theater, arcade, barbershop and mini-golf course.

The rapper has listed his enormous estate in Troutman, North Carolina, for $6,899,999.

That asking price is exactly $1 less than the $6.9 million price at which the property originally hit the market in May. Apparently $6,900,000 was just a little too rich.

More significantly, the current asking price is exactly three times the $2.3 million price paid for the property in November 2019.

If DaBaby manages to get anywhere near his asking price, it would represent an impressive increase in value. Though, as you'll soon see, he has also poured a substantial amount of money into turning the property into one of the more unusual celebrity compounds we've ever encountered.

And the timing of the listing is interesting.

DaBaby is currently fighting the IRS over nearly $1.8 million in disputed taxes and penalties related to his 2022 tax return. The tax fight comes several years after a controversy that DaBaby himself claims caused his performance fee to collapse from as much as $500,000 per show to around $30,000.

To be clear, there is no indication that the IRS is forcing DaBaby to sell his home or that the property has been seized or encumbered as part of the tax dispute. But the mansion hitting the market adds an interesting new chapter to a financial story we've been following for several years.

An Extremely DaBaby Mansion

Located roughly 35 miles north of Charlotte, DaBaby's estate encompasses 8.94 acres and an 11,241-square-foot mansion with five bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms.

The listing describes the house as a gated "Modern Tuscan Estate" near Lake Norman. Inside you'll find soaring ceilings, marble floors, a chef's kitchen, wine cellar, gym, movie theater and vintage arcade.

And then things get considerably more interesting.

There's an actual barbershop inside the house.

Outside, the property essentially becomes a private athletic complex. There's a swimming pool and pool house, outdoor kitchen, basketball court, custom mini-golf course and a half-sized football field. The nearly nine-acre grounds also contain walking trails and a playground. The home has a five-car garage and extensive camera coverage behind a private gated entrance.

In other words, this is less "large suburban mansion" and more "personal resort built for a professional rapper."

The property was originally listed on May 8 for $6.9 million. On May 31, the sellers made the somewhat amusing decision to reduce the asking price by exactly one dollar, to its current $6,899,999.

For some additional perspective on the carrying costs, property taxes were $30,489 in 2025. Below is a video tour of the home when it was listed in 2019, a year before DaBaby bought it:

A Dramatic Financial Reversal

DaBaby bought the property in 2019 at almost exactly the moment his career was going nuclear.

His debut album, "Baby on Baby," had produced the breakout hit "Suge," and later that year his second album, "Kirk," debuted at #1. In 2020, he scored another #1 album with "Blame It on Baby," while his Roddy Ricch collaboration "Rockstar" spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.

For a brief period, DaBaby was one of the hottest rappers in the world.

Then came his infamous July 2021 performance at Rolling Loud Miami.

During the set, DaBaby made remarks about HIV/AIDS and gay men that generated enormous backlash. Festivals began removing him from their lineups, brands distanced themselves, and his career momentum abruptly stalled.

We actually wrote about the financial fallout back in 2022, when DaBaby claimed the incident had potentially cost him an astounding $100 million.

Even at the time, that figure deserved a large grain of salt.

In another interview, DaBaby gave a much more concrete number, claiming he had around $30 million worth of shows scheduled before the cancellations began. Obviously $30 million in gross performance guarantees would not have translated to $30 million in personal income after managers, agents, production expenses, taxes and other costs.

But we now have another data point that illustrates just how severe the damage apparently was.

Speaking on the "Million Dollaz Worth of Game" podcast in March 2026, DaBaby said his calendar was once filled with shows paying $300,000, $350,000, $375,000 and $400,000. At his peak, he said he was earning between $300,000 and $500,000 per appearance.

After Rolling Loud?

According to DaBaby, his rate eventually fell all the way to $30,000.

Then Came The IRS

On top of that career reversal, DaBaby is now engaged in a significant fight with the Internal Revenue Service.

In July, DaBaby – real name Jonathan Kirk – filed a petition in U.S. Tax Court challenging a tax deficiency and penalties totaling nearly $1.8 million related to his 2022 tax return.

According to Bloomberg Tax, the IRS disallowed approximately $1.64 million worth of business expenses claimed by DaBaby. That included roughly $1.05 million in travel expenses, along with legal and professional fees and other business costs. The IRS also determined that an additional roughly $231,000 should have been counted as gross receipts.

DaBaby is challenging those conclusions.

His position is essentially that the IRS improperly rejected legitimate expenses associated with his 2022 touring business and incorrectly characterized certain money as additional income.

That's an important distinction: DaBaby isn't acknowledging that he owes the IRS $1.8 million and refusing to pay it. He is disputing the assessment itself in Tax Court.