After being dropped from the lineups of every major music festival in the country, including Lalloapalooza, the Governors Ball Music Festival, and the iHeartRadio Music Festival, following homophobic remarks he made during a show last month, DaBaby has just landed his first gig.
The 29-year-old rapper will headline Boosie Badazz’s third annual “Boosie Bash” in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on August 29.
Louisiana is currently in the middle of its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began, with almost 6,000 new cases and nearly 70 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The state currently has 3,000 people in the hospital for COVID-19, 500 of whom are on ventilators.
But Boosie is hosting the event anyway. And DaBaby will be there, along with more than a dozen other musical acts and hundreds, possibly thousands, of fans, all crammed together as the Delta variant continues to ravage the local area.
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So Da Baby is performing at Lil Boosie’s party. Birds of a feather are homophobic together.
Side note. Imagine going from performing for thousands at Rolling Loud, to performing in Boosie back yard in less than a month.
— (Le)Troy (@mrLdavis) August 18, 2021
Of course, Boosie is no stranger to homophobic controversy himself.
Last year, he admitted that he let his 12 and 14-year-old sons watch pornography and receive oral sex from a grown woman, arguing that it’s healthier than watching “cartoons with two men kissing.” He also attacked basketball player Dwyane Wade for supporting his 12-year-old daughter’s coming out as transgender, saying “Don’t cut his d*ck off, bruh.”
Last month, Boosie accused Lil Nas X of trying to turn young boys gay, and of disrespecting straight people. And earlier this month he posted a lengthy defense of DaBaby to social media, in which he accused LGBTQ people of trying to ban artists, corrupt children, and offend God.
Dababy was actually booked and busy. Now he on a couch somewhere with Lil Boosie
— Kimmy Kasi (@Kimmykasi) August 18, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Vince
How about boozies bash of closet cases and dumbasses.
You have to really be insanely stupid or just greedy to jam pack people together in a place hit hard by a pandemic. All for shitty music.
Kangol2
Best case scenario: Boozie’s Bash is a total bust.
Worst case scenario: Karma is a MF, and I pray for all the kids who could be orphaned because their parents decided to check out this superspreader event.
LumpyPillows
He is rather dim-witted and low-talent, like his fans.
dhmonarch89
did any one call child services on this Boosie guy?????
Openminded
Speaking of those offending God, he might do well to look in the mirror
lykeitiz
Da Baby is looking like Da Emporer Palpatine in this photo.
Terrycloth
In the heart of Covid country ..perfect. You gotta have Covid to enjoy the crap he raps
Glynn
I hope DaBaby has a memorable event – my advice to him; please do not wear a mask. The people of Baton Rouge need to be able to see what a Homophobic twat (Jonathan Lyndale Kirk) actually looks like. And Jonathan, try to be more sociable – get up close to the attendant ‘Red Stickers’ and suck in as much of their rancid exhaled breath as you can manage. Have a fab time y’all. xx