Da Baby made headlines after his performance at Rolling Loud went viral for his comments about people with HIV/AIDS and gay people. He said,
“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two, three weeks, then put your cellphone light up,” he told the crowd. “Ladies, if your p***y smell like water, put a cellphone light them up. Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d*** in the parking lot, put your cellphone light up. Keep it real.”
He originally stood by his words, and took to his social media, where he continued on to say
“My gay fans, they take care of themselves. They ain’t no nasty gay n*****s See what I’m saying? They ain’t no junkies in the street,” he said during an Instagram Live. “The hell you talking about, n*****s? Then I said if you ain’t sucking d*** in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up. You know what my gay fans did? Put that motherf*****g light up, n***a, ’cause my gay fans ain’t going for that. They got class. They ain’t sucking no d*** in no parking lot.”
Festivals associated with the Charlotte rapper started to remove him from line ups and ending contracts. Lollapalooza, NYC’s Governor’s Ball, Day N Vegas festival and more have dropped him from the line up. He also was dropped by fashion brand BooHoo. Da Baby ended up saying that the “hate” he was receiving was turning him into an icon. That did not last too long, as he issued “da apology” via IG.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSFMMBbpc3F/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
People are not buying it though, and still want to have him canceled. The true question is, does cancel culture truly exist? Or is it a temporary uproar of emotions? It confuses me because one day they will be “canceled” and the next streams hit a million. Canceled = blackballed by the people to no longer support them in any way. But the people continue to financially support the same people they just hated a month ago.
Make it make sense. (Kanye Shrug).
