Dua Lipa said that DaBaby’s homophobic and sexist rant during his Rolling Loud set doesn’t sound like the artist she thought she knew.
The 25-year-old singer and songwriter, who worked on “Levitating” with DaBaby last year wrote on her Instagram Stories, “I’m surprised and horrified at DaBaby’s comments. 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. We need to come together and fight the stigma and ignorance around HIV/AIDS.”
DaBaby told the crowd at his Rolling Loud set Sunday night (July 25) to put up their cell phone lights, “If you didn’t show up today with HIV/AIDS or other STDs that’ll make you die in 2-3 weeks” and “Fellas, if you didn’t suck a n—– d— in the parking lot.”
After receiving major warranted backlash, DaBaby tried clearing things up on Twitter writing, “I tell fans to put a cellphone light in the air y’all start a million man March. I told you y’all digested that wrong Man shruggingbut I ain’t gone lie I’m impressed. Now show this same amount of support when a racist cop kill one of our black ass…YA NOT.”
I tell fans to put a cellphone light in the air y’all start a million man March.✊🏾
— DaBaby (@DaBabyDaBaby) July 27, 2021
I told you y’all digested that wrong 🤷🏾♂️but I ain’t gone lie I’m impressed.
Now show this same amount of support when a racist cop kill one of our black ass…YA NOT 😂
He added another Tweet writing, “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.”
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 🙏🏾
— DaBaby (@DaBabyDaBaby) July 27, 2021
But the LGBT community... I ain’t trippin on y’all, do you. y’all business is y’all business.
Dua Lipa is featured on Pop Smoke’s song “Demeanor,” off his posthumous album, Faith music video out tomorrow (July 29).