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DaBaby’s Flagrant Trolling Is Another Part of Hip-Hop’s Intensifying Culture Wars - Rolling Stone
Jul 29, 2021 1 min, 16 secs

Rapper’s non-apology for his comments at Rolling Loud point to a schism within rap culture.

DaBaby at Rolling Loud in Miami.

(Representatives for Rolling Loud and DaBaby did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.) .

In the video, DaBaby inexplicably holds up a sign with “AIDS” written on the front.

DaBaby’s odd attempts to clean up his image arrive as white mainstream artists such as Dua Lipa and Elton John speak out against the statements made during his performances, stating their “horror” and “shock.” Brands like boohooMan have decided to no longer work with DaBaby after they publicly denounced his statements on social media.

His Rolling Loud rant was entirely unsurprising if you know anything about the rapper, and his current pivot into an “anti-cancel culture” warrior just proves what many people, especially Black women, have always known about him.

There are conspiracy theories floating around online that suggest DaBaby’s Rolling Loud rant was part of a public relations move to promote the new video (the timing is rather odd).

The entirety of DaBaby’s response and non-response to his Rolling Loud set exemplify an ongoing “culture war” happening within rap culture.

For DaBaby, and artists like him who speak to an aggrieved population of men frightened by a changing world, publicly supporting a woman who was just shot by a fellow rapper is bad PR

cancel culture, DaBaby, Dua Lipa, Elton John, homophobia, misogyny, Rolling Loud

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