Things haven't been smooth sailing for DaBaby since he made brazen homophobic remarks at
the Rolling Loud Miami festival.
During his set, the Grammy-nominated artist took a moment to make comments about the LGBT+
community, as well as those affected by HIV/AIDS.
The following day, the rapper took to Twitter to issue a questionable apology to those he
offended.
He tweeted,
"Anybody who done ever been effected [sic] 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."
His attempt to alleviate controversy didn't work out in his favor; instead, DaBaby was
given DaBoot from several festival lineups, including Lollapalooza, Governors Ball, Midtown
Music Festival and Day N Vegas.
Additionally, he received backlash from several organizations and celebrities, including Elton
John and Madonna.
A week later, DaBaby shared a formal apology on his Instagram account — which he later
deleted.
The outrage hasn't left him just yet, but he does have a couple of celebs standing in
solidarity with him.
In late July, rapper T.I. claimed that people were 'bullying' DaBaby for sharing his opinion.
Joining the list of celebs with commentary about DaBaby's debacle is none other than
50 Cent, who is no stranger to controversy himself.
During an appearance on E! News' "Nightly Pop," 50 says he believes DaBaby will bounce
back from the Rolling Loud drama.
"There's nobody that tells you, 'Now, you're held to these standards' that are mainstream
standards that you can't say things and you can't do these different things.
He didn't have a publicist involved and this is why the response took so long.
Even his apology, the first apology attempt at it, was what made it worse.
He also made it a point to acknowledge how early DaBaby is in his career and the lack
of media training and professional development he has.
Still, he believes there's hope and room for improvement, making it likely that he can
recover from his mistakes.
As he noted,
"As long as he keeps the consistency with the music.
Remember they tried to cancel Chris Brown five or six times?"
As it turns out, 50 Cent isn't the only celebrity to get behind DaBaby.
On August 9th, Nick Cannon spoke up in defense of the disgraced rapper.
While Cannon didn't defend the homophobic remarks, he did suggest that Dababy didn't
deserve to be canceled.
Cannon explained during an appearance on the "Breakfast Club",
"First of all, I think, not only in the Black community and I've experienced it, but definitely
men a lot of times, we have that ego.
Man, we believe apologizing is weakness when it actually takes great strength to step up
to anyone and say, 'I was wrong.'
[...] You have to step up and say, 'I didn't handle that in a way...
I'm not perfect.'
And that shows strength."
He went on to explain that because DaBaby has suffered his fair share of trauma in his
life, Cannon feels that rather than be punished for his ignorance, he should be educated as
to the harm that the words could cause.
As you can probably imagine, there’s people on Twitter who are not seeing things as Mr.
Cent nor Mr. Cannon.
A fan tweeted in response to 50’s comments.
"Dababy is not talented enough to 'bounce back.
There's a reason why the peak of his career was being shaped like a PT Cruiser"
Others had harsher takes.
One especially angry fan wrote,
"It's crazy how many grown men running to defend DaBaby.
Bruh almost 30 he's old enough to know when he's spewing insidious vile uneducated s---.
[...] They look stupid asf."
Another disappointed fan tweeted,
"The only reason I can see Nick Cannon defending DaBaby is that Nick Cannon likes to stick
up for people like this even though what he or who he is defending said very disrespectful
things and people are defending him because they don't believe what he said was that bad."
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