![]() ![]() If I attend a concert of a musician I like and they launch into an anti-gay tirade on stage, I certainly have enough self-respect to never listen to them again. If not, he has even more to work on.Īs one member of the LGBTQ+ community who only speaks for himself, all I want is basic respect. But if Budden is a member of the community, he's got a lot of self-reflection and education to do. ![]() This is the context in which Budden "came out", seemingly as a preventative tactic to keep the gays off his back. In the conversation, Budden and his cohorts actually compare the LGBTQ+ community to the mafia and say the community is extorting DaBaby for apologies and money to allow him to perform on stage again. So back to Budden, who discussed the drama on his podcast. The community is not a single entity, does not have a CEO, and its opinions aren't monolithic, but blogs ran with the report anyway even though it was promptly debunked by the person TMZ originally quoted. The rapper has laid relatively low until this past Sunday, where 50 Cent surprised his fans with a DaBaby set in the middle of his own at Rolling Loud New York.Īfter the performance, reports circulated around Hip-Hop blogs that the "CEO of the LGBTQ+ community" had forgiven DaBaby and approved the performance which is, as many people pointed out on the internet, ridiculous. Again, I apologize for my misinformed comments about HIV/AIDS and I know education on this is important. "I want to apologize to the LGBTQ+ community for the hurtful and triggering comments I made. After his slew of headlining festival performances were promptly canceled and Dua Lipa stopped promoting their remix of "Levitating", he eventually apologized. whatever reason.Ĭelebrities like Elton John and Madonna began to call him out for homophobia and stigmatizing AIDS. He went on Instagram live and said his words were meant as "a call to action" and that his gay fans "don’t got f*cking AIDS" because they aren’t "nasty" or "junkies." He even released a self-directed music video where he held up a sign that reads "AIDS" for. ![]() "Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d*ck in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up.” Another person on stage then adds, “Let’s be real about this shit, some of y’all n****s suspect as a motherf*cker.”Īfter first, DaBaby doubled down on the comments. "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," he said to the crowd between songs. ![]()
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