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Lollapalooza Drops DaBaby From Lineup Following Homophobic Remarks

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“Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect, and love,” the music festival said in a tweet.
Lollapalooza has dropped DaBaby from its lineup after the rapper made homophobic comments onstage at the Rolling Loud Miami music festival. “Lollapalooza was founded on diversity, inclusivity, respect, and love,” representatives of music festival said in a tweet. “With that in mind, DaBaby will no longer be performing at Grant Park tonight. Young Thug will now perform at 9:00pm on the Bud Light Seltzer Stage, and G Herbo will perform at 4:00pm on the T-Mobile Stage.” Newsweek reached out to representatives for DaBaby and Lollapalooza for further comment but had not heard back Sunday afternoon. DaBaby—whose given name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk—made widely condemned comments about gay people and people living with HIV/AIDS. “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cellphone light in the air,” the rapper said during his Rolling Loud Miami set. “Ladies, if your p**** smell like water, put your cellphone light in the air. Fellas, if you ain’t suck a n**** d*** in the parking lot, put your cellphone lights in the air.

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