Dua Lipa, who collaborated with DaBaby on “Levitating,” is deeply worried about his homophobic comments that set the internet on fire.
In case you missed it: the rapper went on a homophobic rant during his set at Rolling Loud Miami this weekend, where he asked fans to put their cell-phone lights up if they “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” and didn’t suck “dick in the parking lot.”
DaBaby this is weird to say?? Wth. pic.twitter.com/MDBQEZ2NsA
— ➰ᴺᴹ (@KingSeanSwae) July 26, 2021
Reacting to the comments, Dua Lipa wrote on her Instagram Story: “I’m surprised and horrified. I know my fans know where my heart lies and that I stand 100 percent with the LGBTQ community. We need to come together to fight the stigma and ignorance around HIV/AIDS.”
DaBaby had initially dismissed the outrage his comments caused as “weak-ass internet shit” on his Instagram Stories.
“What me and my fans do at the live show, it don’t concern you niggas on the internet, or you bitter bitches on the internet. It’s not your business. … What I do at a live show is for the audience at the live show, it’ll never translate correctly to someone looking a little five-six second clip from they goddamn crib on they phone,” DaBaby said. “It just don’t work like that.”
He then insisted that all fans at his shows—including those who identify as gay—“turned the fuck up,” using a man in a crop top in the front row as an example.
“They don’t get aids, my gay fans they take care of they self,” DaBaby said. “They ain’t no nasty gay n***as, see what I’m saying? They ain’t no junkies.”
.@DaBabyDaBaby addresses the backlash he is receiving from his homophobic / HIV AIDS remarks during Rolling Loud. He claims his live shows don't translate correctly to the niggas and bitter bitches watching from home🤦🏾♀️. Okie dokie pic.twitter.com/bXu5mdR1gd
— Fck_Yaya (@FckYaya) July 26, 2021
Meanwhile, singer Victoria Monét has announced that she’s available to replace DaBaby on Dua Lipa’s “Levitating.”
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