Rapper DaBaby joked on Tuesday that he switched to R&B due to a decline in his music career. The 29-year-old made homophobic remarks at the Rolling Loud Music Festival in Miami, which aroused strong social media opposition.
He posted a video of singing J. Cole’s “Power Trip” with his daughter, with the text saying: “They cancelled the twin dads, I’m going to use R&B instead, go fucking rap.”
DaBaby said he was cancelled and switched to R&B _ pic.twitter.com/VyR9oSN77R
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) August 17, 2021
These comments show that he acknowledged the consequences and the price he paid.
In his performance, DaBaby asked the audience to pick up their phones “if you don’t have HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases that will kill you in 2-3 weeks”, if they “do not smoke a shit in the parking lot.”
Miami’s comments, which have The highest proportion of same-sex couples in the country, Aroused strong condemnation from the LGBTQ community. He also withdrew from Lollapalooza, Governors Ball and Day N Vegas music festivals. His co-artist Dua Lipa said she was “shocked” by his comments.
Since his debut in 2019, DaBaby has recorded three studio albums.
Yes, no, I don’t want to hear dababy do r&bi pray for God’s love pic.twitter.com/c1XFAoxx6O
— Major __ (@majorisx) August 16, 2021
