DaBaby booted from Lollapalooza after homophobic comments

CHICAGO (AP) — Rapper DaBaby was chopped Sunday from Lollapalooza’s closing lineup pursuing crude and homophobic remarks helium made past week astatine a Miami-area euphony festival.

The Grammy-nominated artist, whose sanction is Jonathan Kirk, had been scheduled arsenic a closing enactment connected the last nighttime of the four-day music festival successful downtown Chicago. Lollapalooza organizers tweeted Sunday that rapper Young Thug would execute astatine 9 p.m. instead.

“Lollapalooza was founded connected diversity, inclusivity, respect, and love,” organizers wrote. “With that successful mind, DaBaby volition nary longer beryllium performing astatine Grant Park tonight.”

Festival organizers didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

In caller days, artists including Madonna, Questlove and Elton John person denounced remarks DaBaby made during a show past Sunday astatine Miami’s Rolling Loud Festival.

While connected stage, the rapper called retired members of the LGBTQ assemblage and radical with HIV and AIDS. Using crude language, helium asked attendees who weren’t cheery men oregon radical affected by HIV oregon AIDS to rise their cellphone flashlights, and helium incorrectly said the illness would “make you dice successful 2 oregon 3 weeks.”

DaBaby’s representatives didn’t instantly reply to emails seeking comment. A idiosyncratic who answered the telephone Sunday astatine his label, South Coast Music Group, and did not springiness his sanction said, “No comment.”

The North Carolina rapper’s opus “Rockstar” was 1 of the biggest hits of 2020 and was nominated for a Grammy Award for grounds of the year.