Governors Ball drops DaBaby from their lineup one day after Lollapalooza cancels his set
The rapper will no longer perform at the September festival following his homophobic on-stage remarks at Rolling Loud
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Rapper DaBaby’s career continues to take hit after hit as New York’s Governors Ball drops him from their forthcoming fall festival after his homophobic and sexist comments at last weekend’s Rolling Loud Miami festival. This is the second music festival DaBaby has been dropped from in the last 24 hours, preceded by Chicago’s Lollapalooza, who cancelled his set mere hours before Sunday’s scheduled performance.
“Founders Entertainment does not and will not tolerate hate or discrimination of any kind,” Governors Ball tweeted. “We welcome and celebrate the diverse communities that make New York City the greatest city in the world. Thank you to the fans who continue to speak up for what is right. Along with you, we will continue to use our platform for good.” The festival has not named his replacement for the September festival.
The removal comes after DaBaby’s Rolling Loud set in which he encouraged audience members to put their cell phone flashlights in the air if they “didn’t show up today with HIV/AIDS or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that will make you die in two to three weeks.” Those also invited to also shine a light were ladies whose “pussy smell like water,” and fellas who decline to “suck dick in the parking lot.”
On top of being grossly incorrect, the stigmatization of HIV/AIDS as a disease associated with having gay sex stinks of Reagan era ignorance, reinforcing misconceptions about how the disease spreads and the alienation of the queer community.
The “Rockstar” artist unfortunately only added fuel to the fire when he followed his set up with even more derogatory comments on Instagram. He made sure to clear up these comments in a later video, saying they weren’t directed at his LGBT+ fans because they are not “nasty” or “junkies.” He says he meant it toward a greater audience, which—if it’s not clear—does not make it any better.
Many musicians have stepped forward in condemnation of DaBaby’s comments and in support of the LGBT+ community. Collaborator Dua Lipa, who worked with DaBaby on her remix of the Future Nostalgia song “Levitating,” wrote in an Instagram story, “I’m surprised and horrified at DaBaby’s comments.”
Elton John tweeted: “This fuels stigma and discrimination and is the opposite of what our world needs to fight the AIDS epidemic.”
DaBaby’s Rolling Loud performance also kicked up dust after the rapper invited Tony Lanez on the stage prior to his homophobic comments. For many, the only reason Lanez’s name rings a bell is in association with the shooting involving Megan Thee Stallion last year, for which Lanez was charged with two counts of felony assault. Megan performed on the stage just prior to DaBaby’s set. As someone who built his career up following the release of Megan’s “Cash Shit,” that’s a lot of pointed disrespect.
It’s been radio silence from DaBaby since July 30, however he did follow-up all of his comments with an apology on July 27. “Anybody who done ever been effected by AIDS/HIV y’all got the right to be upset, what I said was insensitive even though I have no intentions on offending anybody. So my apologies.”
UPDATE, August 2, 12 p.m.: Las Vegas’ Day N Vegas is the next music festival to drop DaBaby from their lineup, replacing him with collaborator and “The Box” rapper Roddy Ricch.
UPDATE, 2:00 p.m: In a statement posted to both Instagram and Twitter, DaBaby apologized for his remarks once again. “Social Media moves so fast that people want to demolish you before you even have the opportunity to grow, educate, and learn from your mistakes,” he wrote. “As a man who has had to make his own way from very difficult circumstances, having people I know publicly working against me—knowing that what I needed was education on these topics and guidance—has been challenging. I appreciate the many people who came to me with kindness, who reached out to me privately to offer wisdom, education, and resources. That’s what I needed and it was received.”
“I want to apologize to the LGBTQ+ community for the hurtful and triggering comments I made. Again, I apologize for my misinformed comments about HIV/AIDS and I knew education on this is important. Love to all. God bless. – DaBaby”
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He should leave and not come back until he DaGrownup!
Byeeeeeeeer
Hasta la vista, ‘Baby.
Hasta DaVista!
DaBaby is cancelled but the Boss Baby is free to wreak havoc across the nation!?
DaBaby didn’t pay the cost to be the Boss (Baby)
I saw boss baby 2 while on shrooms at a drive in movie theater last month and I have to say: don’t do that
Between this and Matt Damon lotta people learning not to say gay slurs recently.
I’d be shocked if a Masshole like Damon wasn’t still leaning awfully hard on the r-word. It’s an essential part of the full-blown Boston vocabulary.
Y’all talking about Gays and R words so I’m just assuming that Matt Damon’s a fan of rainbows and shit.
oof, he did the one thing you cant do in hip hop, saying stupid shit outside of a song :/
lol take your star
Such a strange and random thing to yell out at a concert
Yeah, I’m sure it’s beside the point, but what does that even mean?
I’m sure I don’t want to know.
As someone else pointed out in the last AVC post about this, it also seems oddly specific—like maybe he’s working out some personal stuff.
Wait till you see Kanye perform.Although even during his psychotic breaks he manages not to use slurs. I’m pretty sure.
And now we’re going to play Say Something Nice About This Person:
“Um, um, he…doesn’t use racial or gay slurs when he screams into a microphone…I mean, performs his rap.”
Looking at the context, it sounds like he was trying to call out dope fiends: straight dudes who get HIV from sharing needles and would blow someone for a fix. It’s still homophobic dumbfuck nonsense, but I don’t think it was intended that way.
It *wasn’t intended that way*? Trust me, any time someone uses homophobic slurs, I’m quite certain they intend what they say. Using your logic, we’d have to excuse any white racist using the n-word, if they didn’t intend any harm.
He just got confused, thought he was at a Waffle House at 4 am.
the irony is that now he’s gonna have to suck a dick or two just to get added to a festival in the future.
did they also throw out DaBathwater?
take yer star & get DaHell outta here!
God Damn It, ANoF!*iMODOK deletes the brilliant DaBathwater joke he was composing*
Nah. They scooped his ass right outta DaBathwater and hung him out to dry.
He did today finally manage to put on his own diaper, tho.
This is so much better than my joke “Looks like DaBaby’s in twouble.”
Fuck I love that reply.
Hey! Hold up now! Let’s remember who the REAL victims are here.https://www.complex.com/music/ti-claims-lgbtq-community-bullying-rappers-defending-dababy/
Is this the TI who is currently the subject of an ongoing investigation into sexual assault accusations or the TI who bragged about forcing gynecologists to do annual hymen checks on his teenage daughter?
One and the same! Who is also being investigated by the SEC about being involved with fake crypto-currency launches. Absolute fucking diamond, this one!
Good job, TI.
I’m 100% convinced that Eric Andre put a naked dude into his interview of T.I. to fuck with this dude’s massive homophobia and fragile masculinity.
“Try not to suck any dick on the way to the parking lot!”
““pussy smell like water,”lmao okay thats funny
Don’t worry; I’m sure the next Trump rally can use a celebrity.
I know nothing about this asshole save for his stupid face being in memes all the time. Looks like I’ll be missing out on his whole career – yay for me!
I just know teens and 20-something girls all over TikTok and Instagram love him, which is even more reason to ignore him
Wait, meme guy has music? I thought I did see his whole career.
Let’s hope this time they don’t replace a homophobe with a transphobe.
Has this guy ever done anything noteworthy other than being featured on a Dua Lipa song? Which btw would be considerably better without his shitty verse in it.
Give him a break. He sometimes just acts like a baby. After all, he’s know as DaBaby!
WTF is wrong with his water if it smells like pussy?Get a Brita, dude; you’ll thank me later!
I’m more concerned about this watery, theoretical pussy. Chlorine & fluoridation can’t be good for sensitive mucous membranes.
His attitudes on HIV and AIDS were widely considered backwards and ignorant before he was born. He’s put active effort into being an asshole.
the fact that his statement about people being mean to him is almost twice as long as the apology is so funny.
Right? So it’s ok to be mean to other people. But when you are mean to him, y’all just didn’t “digest” it right. Smdh
You’d think a guy with that level of torso tattoos would have a thicker skin.
If they’re not careful how they’re holding him, many people could drop dababy.
Um, you are aware of the statistic related to HIV infection rates, right? Looks like the latest CDC data shows 81% of new HIV diagnosis was among male-on-male sexual contact. Kinda seems like a gay sex thing. (Rude for him to say it but your assertion that it “reinforces misconceptions” is, well, wrong.)
So we fully canceling Liam Neeson, Barack Obama, and Matt Damon too? Cuz they all did stuff like this well before DaBaby, and way worse
nothing about this is surprising. he’s BEEN super misogynistic, etc.