He said it to a live audience.
Celebrities across the board have joined forces to stand up against DaBaby’s recent homophobic comments.
During a gig at the Rolling Loud music festival last weekend, rapper DaBaby made comments referencing the HIV and AIDS epidemic, with some are criticising it as he is fuelling “stigma and discrimination”.
While the rapper has since apologised, Elton John, Demi Lovato and Dua Lipa have all spoken out about this, saying it is unacceptable to make comments like this to begin with.
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 🙏🏾
But the LGBT community… I ain’t trippin on y’all, do you. y’all business is y’all business.
— DaBaby (@DaBabyDaBaby) July 27, 2021
DaBaby asked fans in the crowd to hold their phones in the air unless they were gay men who had sex in car parks or HIV positive.
Elton John took to Instagram to say: “We’ve been shocked to read about the HIV misinformation and homophobic statements made at a recent DaBaby show. This fuels stigma and discrimination and is the opposite of what our world needs to fight the AIDS epidemic.”
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Elton founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation charity in 1992, adding facts to his statement to set the record straight when it comes to this topic.
Demi Lovato also headed to Instagram to share their thoughts on the topic, reposting a collection of facts about HIV and AIDS to debunk DaBaby’s claims.
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They added in their caption: “‘hot people listen to the original version of levitating’.”
And Levitating singer Dua Lipa, who had the rapper on the remixed version of the song took to her Instagram story to condemn DaBaby’s comments.
Dua Lipa addresses homophobic comments made by DaBaby at Rolling Loud.
“I really don’t recognize this as the person I worked with. I know my fans know where my heart lies and that I stand 100% with the LGBTQ community.” pic.twitter.com/tnmOVPnC3M
— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 27, 2021
She wrote: “I’m surprised and horrified at DaBaby’s comments. I really don’t recognise this as the person I worked with. I know my fans know where my heart lies and that I stand 100% with the LGBTQ community.
“We need to come together to fight the stigma and ignorance around HIV/AIDS.”
