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We have been through a week of cancellations, call outs and other artists seeming to want to be cancelled as well for defending rapper DaBaby’s Rolling Loud festival remarks. As the comments on our partner TheIndustryOnBlast’s have read, some feel he is being targeted given how so many artists have said or done worse on stage or in their music. While the latter is true, they didn’t do it on the largest stage in hip hop, the biggest event of the year, the Rolling Loud festival. There are far more eyes on anyone performing there so whatever happened is naturally going to magnified.
Moments ago he posted a new and more concise apology saying “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. “As a man who has had to make his own way from very difficult circumstances, having people I know publicly working against me — knowing that what I needed was education on these topics and guidance — has been challenging. I appreciate the many people who came to me with kindness, who reached out to me privately to offer wisdom, education, and resources. That’s what I needed and it was received.”
“I want to apologize to the LGBTQ+ community for the hurtful and triggering comments I made. Again, I apologize for my misinformed comments about HIV/AIDS and I knew education on this is important. Love to all. God bless. – DaBaby”
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This we will give DaBaby credit for because the sin he kept repeating is that he apologized multiple times but always with a but. Unrepetent people tend to not get public sympathy. And so long as you show that you don’t care about what you did wrong, people won’t care about your feelings when they respond to you. All that we have said from the beginning that all he had to do was to get someone to write an apology for him, post it and don’t address it again. And that’s not to just push the responsibility off on someone else, but they’re better at communicating with the public. People also don’t tend to think rationally when they have their career flashing before their eyes. And understandably so.
DaBaby did the right thing with this apology… that is a week of him making things worse. Hopefully he’s learned from his mistake. In the end, we’re all worthy of having grace extended to us. He is no different.
