DaThread for DaBaby

Q: Percentage-wise, how many mainstream rappers of DaBaby's generation still dabble in casual homophobia vs mainstream rappers of pretty much every previous generation?

BD: How many?

Q: Yes. Are there many who…

BD: Yeah. I think there’s about 136.

Q: You say, “about 136”?

BD: Yeah.

Q: Or do you mean exactly 136?

BD: It’s either 136 or 142.

Sounds about right.

Fivio Foreign's nasty verse on Nas's "Spicy" got played all over the place with no pushback that I saw

you're misunderstanding my post. i'm talking about what he could've gotten away with

Okay, I guess that wasn't as easy to tell with the first part of your post as it was with the second. Sorry if I took the whole thing out of context.

forks i think the idea that a lot of dababy's fanbase is pro megan thee stallion and anti tory lanez or more broadly pro feminist and anti cancel cultural provocation is not borne out by being fans of dababy

anyway

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSFMMBbpc3F/?utm_medium=copy_link

lmao at the shoe video, that is the most I have ever enjoyed DaBaby

Fivio Foreign's nasty verse on Nas's "Spicy" got played all over the place with no pushback that I saw

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, August 2, 2021 2:31 PM (nineteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

There's like four decades of hypocrisy w/r/t rappers saying nasty things and it's pretty much arbitrary who or what gets in the crosshairs. Lolla and Gov Ball both made big deals about DaBaby being pulled from their lineup, but don't seem to care abt Young Thug, who tweeted transphobic shit at a 12 year old

Also, J0rdan otm

Yeah, the hypocrisy and unequal reactions is shit, but specifically wrt to DaBaby, I can't help but wonder if there is something in the Lolla/Gov Ball contracts that gives them cover to pull him for something that happened on stage that might not hold up when trying to pull another artist for years old tweets.

it's really a question of money. i don't think festivals or any venue have a legal obligation to grant an artist a stage even if they've been booked so if lolla or whoever is paying dababy his full fee to go away there's prob not much of a legal discussion to be had. but if they're trying to withhold or pull back money from him then yeah. would be curious to read an article about it

i think the idea that a lot of dababy's fanbase is pro megan thee stallion and anti tory lanez or more broadly pro feminist and anti cancel cultural provocation is not borne out by being fans of dababy

The Levitating remix we deserve! F*ck DaBaby 🖕🏽 pic.twitter.com/ns3VJxSmrP

— ✨ (@heyjaeee) July 26, 2021

As soon as you approach "crossover" status, you are firmly in the world where no one gives a shit about abusers

old white guys talking about our world of young people and all but it should be noted that my 74 year old mother called and asked me if i liked da baby so this discourse has clearly made its way to The View levels of conversation.

not really surprised that young thug making a single transphobic tweet over a year ago didn't cause as much controversy as dababy being homophobic at a concert & then quadrupling down on it with worse comments to try to defend himself. as j0rdan said, dababy would probably have gotten away with it if he'd just apologised the day after instead of digging a much bigger hole for himself.

if young thug had doubled down on his transphobic tweet then & gone on a huge tirade or something it might have been a bigger deal but it was little enough that the public didn't care for too long, and it's not like people really care that much about transphobia as is anyway

dababy refused to do a story with drew millard after he said 'hail satan' so that might give you some idea of the roots of his ethical/moral worldview

daresay it's a lot simpler than that: dababy is a mainstream, popular rapper and so is Megan so there's a LOT of crossover in fanbase there and that crossover audience does NOT like lanez.

i don't think your feel for the situation is correct but it's not really worth arguing about any further. that mash up is really good tho

i don't think your feel for the situation is correct but it's not really worth arguing about any further.

perhaps accompanied by a hand-wavy gesture and a disdainful bite of avocado toast, pretty sure there's an emoticon for that

old white guys talking about our world of young people and all but it should be noted that my 74 year old mother called and asked me if i liked da baby so this discourse has clearly made its way to The View levels of conversation.

― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, August 2, 2021 3:23 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Chris Brown and Dr. Luke are on the Hot 100 as I type this

not sure how those two points counter each other?

y 74 year old mother called and asked me if i liked da baby

for some reason, I imagined forks' mother following up with "She's-a really cute-a, jus' about ta walk-a"

glad that this is what it takes to get ilm to talk about contemporary hip-hop

Sad lol

FELLAS,

Is he related to Da Brat?

glad that this is what it takes to get ilm to talk about contemporary hip-hop

― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Monday, August 2, 2021 4:05 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm sure that ilm is talking about contemporary hip-hop somewhere, but it's probably on a thread titled "All-purpose personal finance management / budget thread" or something.

Though we technically still have one, the rolling goon threads kind of died off a few years ago

just checked that thread and someone is hoping to become a diplomat, but not the rapping kind, i don't think

xp

Didn't Chuck D call hip hop America's foreign service?

this piece seems otm:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/lil-nas-x-dababy-homophobia/619610/