There’s a big difference between being praised for a job well done and drawing negative attention to yourself by making ignorant remarks. But apparently DaBaby still hasn’t received that memo and we’re starting to doubt whether he ever will.
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The other day, the Grammy-nominated rapper, who came under fire last week for comments he made about HIV/AIDS, gay men, and women, tweeted: “I was tryna be a rapper for like one more year God ready for me to be a ICON now. This what I asked for I proudly accept the challenge. lets get it.”
I was tryna be a rapper for like one more year God ready for me to be a ICON now. This what I asked for I proudly accept the challenge ????? lets get it.
— DaBaby (@DaBabyDaBaby) July 30, 2021
Hmmmmm.
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We’re not sure being criticized by everyone from Dua Lipa to Madonna to Elton John, as well as by advocacy groups like GLAAD, among many, many, many others elevates a person to “icon” status.
Related: Madonna just went off on DaBaby for his homophobic remarks and… wow
We’re also not sure being dropped at the last minute from the lineups at Lalloapalooza and the Governors Ball Music Festival, and having your sponsorship deal canceled with the fashion brand BoohooMAN, makes you an “icon” either.
Here’s how people responded to DaBaby crediting God for making him an “icon”…
Bruh, you got Madonna, Elton John and every Black woman in America mad at you right now. Maybe put the phone down and reflect for a bit.
— Super Nintendo® Chalmers (@OldManChalmers) July 30, 2021
Interesting considering you just tanked your career 🤔
— brenna ♈️ (@brennanoonan) July 30, 2021
An ICON????????? Yea maybe for stupidity definitely not music lmao
— ShyReal (@ShyRealKing) July 30, 2021
A ICONNN?! pic.twitter.com/LOo75Rj9vR
— Terris W. #BLM (@TerristheKing) July 30, 2021
As a certified traffic sign I’m going to need you to stop
— Christian Adkins (@ChrisAdkins_) July 30, 2021
There are people older than you and more talented than you trying to give you advice. Listen to them. They know the game and you do not. (Also, if Eric Clapton calls to offer support, hang up.)
— FormerGregSamsa (@MJaMitchell) July 30, 2021
dababy more like daprobably shouldn’t be tweeting rn
— Jay 🐘 (@notjaytaylor) July 30, 2021
Can’t wait to see an ICON at Lollapalooza… oh wait. pic.twitter.com/FQTc0ozwI7
— CJ Glitter (@CJGlitter) August 1, 2021
YOU ARE OVER! Accept that challenge nowhere to be an ICON.
— Legendario (@LegendarioPR) July 30, 2021
You should start by being a better human being. Your hate against the LGBT community is really messed up and i was a big fan of you but you disrespected a lot of my friends.
— La Fur (@DerekMiller36) July 30, 2021
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Cam
He’s been bounced from more than one music festival and no big singers want to work with him anymore.
Yeah, he’s doing great.
cuteguy
Another ghetto black using religion to shield his homophobia. Cue in CAM and the other trolls on here to attack this legitimate comment
Cam
I love how you, the same old right wing troll account are so desperate to attack Black people and you think that by mentioning I’m going to point out your hypocrisy it will stop me.
Black people vote for politicians that support LGBTQ rights, right rednecks vote for politicians who want to harm us, yet funny enough I never see you on posts about them talking about how they use their evangelical beliefs as an excuse for homophobia.
Sweety, I’m not trolling you, I’m asking you to explain your lack of consistency. Ohhhh right, you hate Black people and support the white evangelical racists and bigots who want to harm our community.
Kangol2
“Ghetto black”? Do you always have to show how racist you are? Always?
Vince
Jesus Christ can we got over the PC bullshit. When this little douchebag speaks its ignorant ebonics that is exactly what we call ghetto talk. It’s a certain kind of black person ie the ghetto black. You at least know the kind of person you’re dealing with.
I never hear anyone complain about calling certain people white trash or trailer park trash which I do all the time. The complete hypocrisy from the complainers is mind blowing.
cuteguy
@Vince
Exactly! It’s ppl like Cam and other trolls who kept their eyes closed to reality and helped get that monster trump elected.
Thanks for giving these trolls a reality check but o suspect it will be an exercise in futility
Kangol2
@Vince, cuteguy is on here repeatedly spewing racist claptrap! Now if someone starts criticizing White people and White racists, you’ll be whining, but the fact remains that it’s White homophobes, and not Black people of whatever class background, who are actively trying to take away your rights and send LGBTQ back to the 19th century, yet people like cuteguy are always sounding off on Black people. Calling that racist crap out is not being PC. Criticize DaBaby but stop the racist garbage about Black people–there are 47+ million in the US alone, and we do not all think alike or behave alike. Also, as repellent as DaBaby is, he is not an “it.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen you use that pronoun about a racist White person either, however you characterize White people.
Cam
@cuteguy
Waaaaaaahhh!!!! The right wing troll account is crying because it got called out.
Just to be clear precious. All I did was point out that you never EVER call out white people who hide behind religion to attack us. Please explain that. Ohhhhh right, you’ve already been caught being rac-ist multipe times.
cuteguy
@Cam
They may have shorted your daily dosage today at the old age home, but when were White ppl ever oppressed?! Like I’ve said before, Black ppl should have more empathy for an oppressed group like the lgbtq community. And furthermore, since I’m a recovering Catholic, of course I’ve ALWAYS called out any religious group bc all religions do is segregate, hence their dwindling attendance. And since I don’t live on here like you do bc I have a day job, and a life, I have no problem calling out bs when I see it. Seriously Cam, your old age dementia might be kicking in bc I’ve NEVER supported anyone or anything GQP related so I could never be a GQP troll. Isn’t it lights out soon at Shady Pines, Cam? Night night
Cam
@cuteguy
LOL!!! Troll, I love how you keep trying to pretend a conversation happened that didn’t.
Under your multiple names you regularly attack Black people who vote for politicians who want to help LGBTQ people. And I pointed out that you have never attacked bigoted White people who hide behind their religion and who vote for politicians who want to harm LGBTQ people.
Your tactic is so obvious, you want to paint all Black people by using one guy as an example, and again NEVER attack, and mostly defend the non-Black bigots that attack us.
But keep on trying troll, one day you may actually type something clever.
ted
The GOP would like him, if he weren’t a Person Of Color. Too bad he bit the hands that fed him (PO folks).
Conservatives = Xtians = Proud Boys = Nationalists = KKK = White Supremacists do not welcome him.
Kangol2
He’s an icon in his own mind, that’s for sure!
Mack
Nailed it.
Hdtex
HUMAN GARBAGE
Chrisk
Da Douchebag is just copying Lil Naz with his doing the religious bit. He’ll probably end up getting the Bible thumpers out to defend him though.
Mack
He’s the wrong color. Those religious ones who would jump on the attack of LGBTQ would also jump on physical attack of him.
gregg2010
God had nothing to do with it.
MollyIsGay
He’s an icon now–who needs Lollapalooza? Maybe he could even speak at the Stupidhead Convention!
Man About Town
I don’t understand the comment about Eric Clapton…
radiooutmike
@Vince:
No one complains when you or anyone else uses the terms white trash or trailer park trash because they’re still white and have privilege over black people.
Who would you prefer to be? A middle class black guy on a traffic stop with a brand new Toyota Camry…Or a white trash dude with high-rise truck with two tail lights out?
Kangol2
Thank you! Is Vince or cuteguy on here criticizing Matt Damon, who, despite his elite background and education, was regularly using an anti-gay epithet in front of his kids, to the extent that one child finally got so sick of it they wrote a letter? NO! You know why! The silence is deafening.
White anti-gay fanatics are bashing White gay men in Spain, in Latvia, in France, in the US, and as the recent article on here showed, shoving White gay men in front of moving cars in Scotland. But you get nothing but silence from the likes of Vince or cuteguy. Seriously. Criticize DaBaby all you want. HIs comments and homophobia are revolting. But stop trying to act like Black people are the only homophobes, when there are people of all races, including White people, who want to wipe LGBTQ off the face of this earth.
Cam
If God made him an icon, wouldn’t he be very small? Like my…er, was that out loud?
Cam
@Cam (Stolen screename).
Translation: The right wing troll account has been so thwarted by all of us mocking it’s sad attempt at trolling that all it has left is it’s obsession with me.
LOL! Sweetie, if this is all you’ve got, then hopefully they weren’t paying you very much to troll here. Your troll game is, well…..sad and weak.
SDR94103
she’s a bottom feeder.
Bonuscheque
best comment
FridM
What a M F C**t!!!, Total Shit. Hopefully he’ll get shot dead soon like all of the rappers and just die…. your so called music is CRAP…don’t care. All they want to do is hurt and kill us. They have no value, they are better off dead!!!
Dez
Um doesn’t the bible say to NOT worship false idols/icons?
Not that I really expect this moron to know the first thing about god/religion and all that.
JohnnyBoy2
This non-entity thinks he is an icon? Before today, I never heard of him.
BigE
Showing ICON in all caps suggests that he thinks it’s an acronym(for God only knows what). I still think that he’s pissed because nobody would help him relax in the parking lot, before he went on stage for his set.
Cam
He tried to apologize again, this one was obviously written by a publicist. Looks like his income dropped and his team panicked.
Jon in Canada
Hey DaFailedAbortion, your intelligence and Iconic status is like your god, a complete and utter fiction.