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DaBaby has had an upcoming concert in New Orleans canceled on account of low ticket sales, it has been claimed.
The event’s Ticketmaster page was deactivated Tuesday after allegedly less than 500 tickets were sold for a 14,000-capacity venue, NOLA.com reports.
His latest professional setback comes over a year after a massive outcry over jokes that DaBaby, 30, made about AIDS and his gay fans.
Onstage: DaBaby has had an upcoming concert in New Orleans canceled on account of low ticket sales, it has been claimed; pictured performing in Memphis this April
DaBaby’s allegedly canceled show was scheduled to take place this Friday at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, with the lowest ticket price at just $35.
A massive controversy erupted last summer when DaBaby performed at Rolling Loud Miami and joked onstage about AIDS and men performing public fellatio.
‘If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up!’ he said from the stage.
‘Ladies, if your p**** smell like water, put your cellphone lighter up! Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d*** in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up!’
Pictured for scale: DaBaby’s allegedly canceled show was scheduled to take place this Friday at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, shown at right next to the Superdome (left)
His remarks set off a furious backlash that saw him accused of propagating homophobia and stigmatizing people with HIV/AIDS.
A string of festivals ranging from the Governors Ball to Lollapalooza dropped DaBaby from their lineups as a campaign to ‘cancel’ him took off.
Famous music acts including Madonna, Questlove and Dua Lipa lined up to denounce DaBaby for his brand of humor.
DaBaby initially struck a defiant tone, firing back at Madonna on his Insta Stories: ‘Hey, Mo, don’t shake up them t***ies!’
Remember when: A controversy erupted last summer when DaBaby performed at Rolling Loud Miami (pictured) and joked onstage about AIDS and men performing public fellatio
In another Insta Story, he declared that ‘regardless of what y’all motherf***ers talking about and how the internet then twisted up my motherf***ing words, me and all my fans at the show, the gay ones and the straight ones, we turned the f*** up.’
He quipped that ‘even my gay fans don’t got f***ing AIDS’ because ‘they take care of theyself, they ain’t going for that. They ain’t no nasty gay n****s.’
DaBaby explained: ‘Then I said if you ain’t suck d*** in the Rolling Loud parking lot, put your cellphone light up. You know what my gay fans did? Put that motherf***ing light up, n****. ‘Cause my gay fans, they ain’t got, n**** – they ain’t going for that. They got class, n****.’
He joked: ‘They ain’t sucking no d*** in no parking lot. N***a, you gotta get a room, n****, a good one, five-star hotel for the night.’
Remarks: ‘Ladies, if your p**** smell like water, put your cellphone lighter up!’ he said, adding: ‘Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d*** in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up!’
DaBaby continued: ‘They ain’t just gonna be out here just doing no anything. Yeah, if they a fan of me, they goddamn, they on some big dog s***. We ain’t just going for nothing, you know? Even my gay fans got standards.’
However as the blowback against him continued to mount, he eventually opted for a more contrite approach, apologizing for his ‘hurtful and triggering’ remarks.
In a lengthy Instagram post that he later deleted, he said he was sorry for being ‘misinformed’ but argued that he should have been allowed the opportunity to ‘grow, educate, and learn from your mistakes.’
Defiant: He then quipped on Insta Stories that ‘even my gay fans don’t got f***ing AIDS’ because ‘they take care of theyself, they ain’t going for that’
DaBaby’s career has yet to recover from last year’s gay scandal, which drew significantly more attention than an incident in 2020 when he slapped a female fan in the face and then claimed not to have known she was a woman.
Dave Chappelle, in his Netflix special The Closer released last October, joked that he wanted to ‘negotiate the release of DaBaby,’ whom he said had ‘punched the LGBTQ community right in the AIDS.’
The comedian also noted that ‘nothing bad happened’ to DaBaby’s career after he shot and killed a 19-year-old called Jaylin Craig in a Walmart in 2018.
‘Do you see where I’m going with this?’ he said, pointing out that Americans were willing to overlook the shooting but ‘you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings.’
Change of tack: DaBaby, pictured performing this February at Drai’s nightclub in Las Vegas, ultimately apologized for his ‘hurtful and triggering’ remarks