DaBaby Dropped From Two More Festivals, Despite Latest Apology

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs the Covid-19 variant continues to spread across the globe, the status of all future concerts, let alone festivals, has come into some question.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorKanye West has apparently removed a remix of his song “Nah Nah Nah” featuring DaBaby from streaming services. The remix, which was released last year and also featured 2Chainz, was disappeared from Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal over the weekend and was first reported by HotNewHipHop.DaBaby is entering a third week of negative reaction to homophobic comments he made onstage at the Rolling Loud Miami festival on the weekend of July 23.

Rapper DaBaby has been dropped from this year’s Music Midtown lineup after receiving backlash for homophobic remarks.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEleven national LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS organizations on Wednesday released an open letter to rapper DaBaby in the wake of his recent homophobic statements and awkward attempts at apologies, requesting a private meeting to discuss the facts about HIV and how it is a preventable and treatable condition, and discuss a long-term opportunity for him to pass on the education to his large fanbase.The organizations are: Arianna’s Center, Black AIDS Institute, GLAAD, The Normal

DaBaby had his Lollapalooza set cancelled at the last minute at the weekend after he failed to deliver on a promise that he would make a full apology for his homophobic remarks at the Rolling Loud Miami festival a week earlier.When the rapper’s Lollapalooza set was pulled, it started a run of festival performance cancellations.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorShowtime has released a trailer for “Bitchin’: the Sound and Fury of Rick James,” a new documentary directed by Emmy-nominee and hip-hop journalist Sacha Jenkins (“Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men”).

DaBaby is continuing to lose bookings.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLegendary songwriter, guitarist and singer Johnny Marr — formerly of the Smiths, the The, Electronic and Modest Mouse and a veteran solo artist as well — has signed a new worldwide album deal with BMG. The deal is an expansion of Marr’s relationship with BMG as a publisher, which includes his three U.K.

As he had more festival appearances cancelled yesterday, DaBaby offered a full apology for comments he made last month during a performance at Rolling Loud Miami. He also criticised the speed of social media – and the backlashes that unfold there – for not giving him time to learn from his mistakes.“Social media moves so fast that people want to demolish you before you even have the opportunity to grow, educate, and learn from your mistakes”, he wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter his headlining sets at Lollapalooza and the Governors Ball Festival were canceled within 24 hours of each other, DaBaby has issued another, more articulated apology to the LGBTQ community.While it starts off defensively, his statement posted to Instagram does include a more thorough apology than the half-baked ones he offered last week in the wake of his homophobic comments about AIDS and the gay community at the Rolling Loud festival and afterward.“Social

Governor's Ball has removed DaBaby from the lineup for this year's festival as the controversy deepens over the homophobic comments and AIDS misinformation the rapper stated during a Rolling Loud performance.

DaBaby has been dropped from the line-up of Governors Ball 2021 following the homophobic comments he made while performing at Rolling Loud Festival last month.The rapper, real name Jonathan Kirk, has been widely condemned for the remarks he made about homosexuality and people with HIV/AIDS while on stage in Miami on July 25, with the likes of Elton John, Madonna and Dua Lipa all criticising DaBaby last week.DaBaby was subsequently dropped from his slot at Lollapalooza over the weekend, and the

removal from from the Lollapalooza lineup, New York City’s Governors Ball Music Festival removed the rap star from its lineup ahead of its September event.The annual New York music festival removed the 29-year-old artist from the upcoming lineup due to homophobic comments made at Rolling Loud, a Miami music festival on the weekend of July 23rd.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA day after DaBaby was dropped from the Lollapalooza lineup for his homophobic comments last week, New York’s Governors Ball canceled his performance at the festival, which takes place in September.In a tweet labeled “Stay tuned for a lineup addition,” the festival’s promoter wrote in a social media message: “Founders Entertainment does not and will not tolerate hate or discrimination of any kind.

Lollapalooza announced on Sunday that it cut rapper DaBaby at the eleventh hour following homophobic remarks that he made during a performance at a Miami-area music festival. The Grammy-nominated artist, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, had been scheduled as a closing act on the final night of the four-day music festival in downtown Chicago.

DaBaby has been dropped from the Lollapalooza 2021 lineup, mere hours before he was supposed to take the stage at Chicago's Grant Park. "Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect and love," the festival wrote on Twitter, "With that in mind, DaBaby will no longer be performing at Grant Park tonight." As a replacement, G Herbo was added to the festival's lineup, and Young Thug was moved into the headliner slot vacated by DaBaby.

festival posted on its official Twitter account.“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two, three weeks, then put your cellphone light up.” DaBaby, nee Jonathan Lyndale Kirk said, in a homophobic rant. “Ladies, if your p— smell like water, put a cellphone light up.

DaBaby will no longer be performing at Lollapalooza. In the wake of his anti-LGBTQ comments, the rapper was dropped from his planned performance at the festival on Sunday.