AUSTIN, Texas — Rapper DaBaby has been dropped as a headliner for the 2021 Austin Metropolis Limits Tunes Competition. The festival built the announcement on Twitter Tuesday early morning.
DaBaby faced hefty backlash after he built crude and homophobic remarks at a recent Miami-spot music pageant.
The Grammy-nominated performer supplied a different apology on Monday, indicating he was misinformed for his comments about HIV/AIDS in the put up, which arrived a working day soon after the rapper was slice from Lollapalooza’s lineup in Chicago.
On Monday, New York City’s Governors Ball and Working day N Vegas in Las Vegas each introduced the rapper experienced been dropped from their lineups.
DaBaby will no lengthier be undertaking at Austin Town Restrictions Audio Pageant — lineup update coming shortly. pic.twitter.com/jAYfdJFxJf
— ACL Pageant (@aclfestival) August 3, 2021
Da Little one, whose actual title is Jonathan Kirk, apologized to the LGBTQ+ community for his “hurtful and triggering” feedback.
“Social media moves so quickly that folks want to demolish you just before you even have the possibility to grow, teach and study from your issues,” he wrote. “As a guy who has had to make his personal way from pretty tough circumstances, getting persons I know publicly doing work versus me – realizing that what I desired was training on these matters and direction – has been challenging.”
It is the 2nd time DaBaby has apologized adhering to his remarks at Miami’s Rolling Loud Pageant.
Whilst on phase, the rapper applied crude language and requested attendees who weren’t homosexual adult males or persons not impacted by HIV or AIDS to raise their cellphone flashlights. He then incorrectly said the disorder would “make you die in two or three months.”
DaBaby’s remarks caused an instant firestorm for the rapper, whose song “Rockstar” was one particular of the major hits very last 12 months. He was nominated for a Grammy for history of the 12 months.
In current times, various artists together with Madonna, Questlove and Elton John have denounced his remarks. Dua Lipa, who collaborated with DaBaby on the well-known remix of her music “Levitating,” stated she was “surprised and horrified” by his opinions.