DaBaby Attends Virtual Meeting With HIV Organisations

DaBaby has apologised to leading HIV advocates over homophobic remarks he made at the Rolling Loud music festival in July. 

The rapper attended a virtual meeting on August 25 with a number of HIV organisations, where he had the chance to get the facts about HIV/AIDS from the people who live with it.

In a statement released after the meeting one of the groups involved said: “DaBaby apologized for the inaccurate and hurtful comments he made about people living with HIV”.

They added that the rapper “genuinely engaged” and “openly and eagerly participated in this forum of black people living with HIV”.

You can read the full statement by the GLAAD organisation here.

Dababy received widespread condemnation over his homophobic remarks made during his set at the Rolling Loud music festival, from the likes of Elton John and Dua Lipa.

“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 up,” DaBaby said onstage.

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