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Miley Cyrus Offers To Counsel DaBaby After Homophobic Rant
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty DaBaby is currently a target of intense criticism after delivering a homophobic rant at Rolling Loud Miami and then doubling down on his ill-advised stances before finally apologizing. While the cancellation is still going strong, Miley Cyrus is offering to counsel the rapper from a kind place instead of one fueled by vitriol. Cyrus, 28, posted a lengthy message as a screenshot to her Instagram post offering to lend an ear and guidance to DaBaby, adding that she’s aware that he’s on everyone’s cancel list at the moment. From Instagram: As a proud and loyal member of the LGBTQIA+ community, much of my life has been dedicated to encouraging love, acceptance, and open mindedness,” she wrote. “The internet can fuel a lot of hate & ange...
HHW Gaming: DaBaby ‘Fortnite’ Tie-In Discovered In Update By Data Miners, Epic Games Stays Silent
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Epic Games is definitely not reading the room following this discovery. As spotted on The Verge, data miners made an interesting find while digging deep into Fortnite’s v17.30 update released on Tuesday (Aug.3) morning. A file containing audio for a new emote from The Migos latest track, “AM to PM,” which features currently embattled Hip-Hop star DaBaby, was discovered. If you have no clue what is going on with the North Carolina Hip-Hop star, he has been embroiled in controversy following his headass homophobic comments toward people with HIV and AIDS he blurted out during his Rolling Loud Miami performance. Instead of apologizing, DaBaby doubled down on his comments leading to “DaBookings” and “DaBags” being fumbled. DaBaby has sai...
DaBaby Reportedly DaDropped The Ball on Delivering Apologies To Festivals
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Radio One Digital / @Stretchd_34 for Radio One Digital It’s been a bad week for DaBaby, who’s now been dropped from a few music festivals including last weekend’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, Illinois. And the word is that once again, he did it to himself. The North Carolina rapper found himself in the midst of heavy backlash after viral video emerged of him making a homophobic rant during his set at the Rolling Loud festival in Miami on July 25th. After notable musicians such as Questlove and Sir Elton John took him to task, he made a lackluster apology via social media. After that faltered, representatives for DaBaby reached out to seven music festivals that he was scheduled to appear at on July 28th. They assured the promoters at each festival, wi...
DaBaby Apologizes for ‘Misinformed’ Comments About AIDS, LGBTQ Community
Grammy-nominated rapper DaBaby was pulled from three headlining festival sets after he made homophobic comments about AIDS and the LGBTQ community at the Rolling Loud festival. During his headlining set, the rapper told fans to hold their phone lights up 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.” Although DaBaby wrote on Twitter that the comment was “insensitive,” his remarks sparked a backlash from celebrities on social media including Madonna, Elton John, and his “Levitating” co-singer, Dua Lipa. DaBaby was then dropped by the lineups of Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, and Day N Vegas within 24 hours of each other. Now, the rapper issued a more thoughtful statement: “Social Media moves so fa...
Governors Ball Drops DaBaby Like A Bad Habit
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Rawls / Radio One Digital DaBaby just lost another gig due to his bout of homophobia while on the Rolling Loud Miami stage. On Monday (August 2). the Governors Ball music festival announced it was removing the Charlotte rapper from its lineup. This news comes a day after the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago dropped DaBaby the same day he was scheduled to perform on Sunday. “Founders Entertainment does not and will not tolerate hate or discrimination of any kind,” read a tweet from the official Governors Ball account. “We welcome and celebrate the diverse communities that make New York City the greatest city in the world.” Governors Ball is three days, September 24 – 26, 2001, and DaBaby was originally set to perform on Friday, September 24. No...
DaBaby No Longer Performing At Lollapalooza, You Know Why
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rich Fury / Getty It’s been about a week since DaBaby went full homophobe from the Rolling Loud Miami stage, and the repercussions continue. On Sunday morning (August 1), the Lollapalooza Music Festival announced that the North Carolina rapper would no longer be performing on the day’s bill. As you can guess, it was due to his aforementioned incendiary commentary, and no doubt the choice was easy considering his series of weak sauce apologies afterwards. You knew the guy was down bad when he claimed to have no idea who Questlove is after the Roots drummer and multihyphenate called out his reckless rhetoric. “Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect, and love,” said a statement on Lollapalooza’s official social channels. “With that in mi...
DaBaby Booted From Lollapalooza Lineup Following Homophobic Comments
After a week where DaBaby was widely admonished for making blatantly false statements and insulting gay men and HIV along with other misogynistic comments at the Rolling Loud festival in Miami, the rapper (Jonathan Lyndale Kirk) was kicked off Sunday’s Lollapalooza’s lineup. “Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect, and love. With that in mind, DaBaby will no longer be performing at Grant Park tonight,” a statement on the festival’s Twitter account read on Sunday morning. Young Thug will replace him as the headliner on the Bud Light Seltzer stage. Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect, and love. With that in mind, DaBaby will no longer be performing at Grant Park tonight. Young Thug will now perform at 9:00pm on the Bud Light Seltzer Stag...
DaBaby Is Down Bad With Response To Questlove’s Criticism
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty DaBaby is on a serious downward slide after his homophobic comments made at Rolling Loud earlier in the week, this time pretending that he doesn’t know who Questlove is after the drummer blasted him for his behavior. In a series of Instagram stories that he put out Thursday night (July 29), the North Carolina rapper mocked The Roots drummer claiming he didn’t know who he was. “I ain’t even tryna be funny when I say… I do not know who dis n—a is dawg,” he wrote. “And I do not care ’bout losing you as a fan my boy lol @questlove. You or any other n—a who wanna play follow the leader. This superstar was a fan of is stand up n—a, yeen never seen one of these huh?.” The immediate response on social media was swift, with people clowning the rapper w...
Lil Nas X Responds To DaBaby’s Homophobic Comments
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz DaBaby’s rant at Rolling Loud Miami has got everyone feeling in a way; regardless of their sexuality. Lil Nas X has commented on the matter and clearly he had time. DaBaby got himself in front of the line at the cancel culture review board when he talked reckless in between his set last week. “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up. Ladies, if your p***y smell like water, put your cellphone light in the air. “Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d*** in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up” he said. Shortly after T.I. released a video co-signing the DaBaby’s message and naturally upset e...
Tory Lanez’s Rolling Loud Miami Cameo Possibly Violated Restraining Order To Stay Away From Megan Thee Stallion
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Tory Lanez unwelcomed cameo at Rona Loud, oops, we mean Rolling Loud, might come back to haunt him. TMZ exclusively reports that DaBaby’s bringing out Canadian varmint Tory Lanez might have been a direct violation of the restraining order a judge issued against him after allegedly shot Megan Thee Stallion in the foot. Rolling Loud sources told the celebrity gossip site Thee Stallion, and her team was not happy about DaBaby bringing Lanez out right after her performance. Per TMZ: Tory’s accused of shooting Megan in the foot last summer, and Rolling Loud sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … she and her team at the festival were very upset about him appearing on stage with DaBaby less than an hour after she finished her se...
Slow Moonwalk: DaBaby Delivers Late Apology For Rolling Loud Miami Homophobia
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rich Fury / Getty DaBaby is belatedly walking back his bizarre rant that veered into homophobia and caused a fan to throw a shoe that he made during his set at Rolling Loud Miami this past Sunday (July 25). The “Suge” rapper took to Twitter on Tuesday (July 27) to issue an apology for his comments stating, “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.” The video of his set caught the rapper saying, “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up… Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d–k in the parking l...
This UFO-Inspired Spotify Playlist Features Daft Punk, Jack Ü and Frank Sinatra
What do Jack Ü, Led Zeppelin and Nicki Minaj all have in common? If you’re coming up blank, you’re not alone. Luckily, Spotify has found a peculiar way to put these artists in conversation with each other: UFOs. Inspired by a recent uptick in UFO sightings across the globe, the streaming giant has launched an eclectic playlist called “cl0se ënc0ūnteRs.” “We can’t explain this playlist,” its description reads. “Just like we can’t explain those UFO sightings.” Featuring 25 tracks across a wide range of genres and musical eras, “cl0se ënc0ūnteRs” manages to find space for songs like “Levitating” by Dua Lipa and DaBaby, “Creep” by Radiohead and “Come Fly With Me”...
