Dave Chappelle addresses DaBaby’s homophobic comments.
DaBaby got into a huge controversy a couple of months back when he made some harsh comments on the LGBTQ community. The homophobic statement made him the target of cancel culture, from which he is still recovering. The Cleveland-born artist later had a meeting with some HIV Awareness Organizations, to which he offered him an apology. Now the standup comedian Dave Chappelle has released his new Netflix special “The Closer”, he addresses DaBaby’s controversy, along with his LGBTQ Community.
“All the questions you might have had about all these jokes I’ve said in the last few years, I hope to answer tonight,” he said during the special. “And I’d like to start by addressing the [LGBTQ] community directly. I want every member of that community to know that I come here tonight in peace and I hope to negotiate the release of DaBaby.”
Many of those who attacked DaBaby and contributed to his alleged cancellation, according to Chappelle, are unaware that the rapper shot and murdered a 19-year-old man in a North Carolina Walmart in 2018. DaBaby claimed he was acting in self-defense and was never prosecuted in the man’s killing; he was convicted of a weapons infraction.
Dave Chappelle then brought up DaBaby’s 2018 shooting case and compared it to the recent Rolling Loud controversy. “A lot of the LGBTQ community doesn’t know about DaBaby’s history,” Dave says. “He once shot a ni**a and killed him in Walmart. Oh this is true, Google it. Nothing bad happened to his career. Do you see where I’m going with this? In our country, you can shoot and kill a ni**a, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings.”
Check out the clip from the Netflix special below.
Dave Chappelle jokes that DaBaby got more backlash for gay comments than he did for killing someone pic.twitter.com/UHeR79kXVB
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