Rapper DaBaby has been dropped from this year’s Music Midtown lineup after receiving backlash for homophobic remarks. While on stage at a recent music festival in Miami, Florida, the rapper asked attendees who weren’t gay men or people unaffected by HIV/AIDS to raise their cellphone flashlights, according to WSB-TV.
He then incorrectly said HIV/AIDS would “make you die in two or three weeks.” DaBaby was cut from the Lollapalooza lineup in Chicago before he released a post on Instagram apologizing to the LGBTQ community for his “hurtful and triggering” and “misinformed” comments on HIV/AIDS.
Despite the apology, Music Midtown tweeted on Tuesday (August 3) that DaBaby would no longer be performing at the two-day festival, held on September 18