During a performance at the Rolling Loud Festival held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, DaBaby went into a wild rant laced with homophobia and disparaging commentary about people who are HIV positive.
“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, then put your cellphone lighter up. Ladies, if your p***y smell like water, put your cellphone lighter up. Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d**k in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up,” DaBaby said, adding that he was "keeping it real."
I just know you mf lying… GET HIM pic.twitter.com/fmYjxTlGZM
— Isaiah Maximoff ???? (@ZayBelvin) July 26, 2021
DaBaby, whose set was right after Megen Thee Stallion, was further criticized for bringing Tory Lanez on stage. Meg blasted Lanez for shooting her in the foot after a party, as Blavity previously reported.
Lanez walked onto the stage disguised in a costume.
“I’ll give somebody out here a million dollars if they can guess who in here,” DaBaby said to the crowd, Complex reports. “I got a million dollars right now if you can guess who… Who you think?”
DaBaby just brought out Tory Lanez during his Rolling Loud set. Megan Thee Stallion performed before him
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) July 26, 2021
After taking the costume off, the duo launched into a performance of the track "What's Poppin."
Shortly after, DaBaby ended his set with “Cry Baby,” Megan’s hit song that he's featured on.
Twitter expressed their dismay at DaBay choosing to align himself with Lanez for his performance.
Twitter seeing Dababy bring out tory lanez after playing megan's crybaby pic.twitter.com/y3MtvWXz9H
— Koalaツ | LILUZIVERT (@PapaKoalaYT) July 26, 2021
Now when Meg drops her diss track featuring Jay-Z and gets you out of here for good don’t say nothing @DaBabyDaBaby
pic.twitter.com/SfLKlNReGm— BRI (@BriMalandros) July 26, 2021
Security when that shoe was thrown at dababy pic.twitter.com/zSxKJLnUg9
— Niggaola de Haan (@Niggaolas) July 26, 2021
Someone threw Adidas shoe at DaBaby when he was performing at #RollingLoud
pic.twitter.com/zvXwCCULfp— Elite Media Group (@TheEliteMedia_) July 26, 2021
During the show, someone threw a shoe at DaBaby. The person later took responsibility for the act, taking a picture of his foot without his sneaker.