While Dababy has massively been criticized by fellow artists and the public at large, the rapper has seemingly found favor with a select few of his peers, who have spoken out against the widespread backlash.
The latest to come to Dababy’s defense is comedian/host Nick Cannon, who appeared on The Breakfast Club this week and answered a question about what he thought about the rapper’s situation.
Cannon said that the incident with DaBaby is a teachable moment of “education” for the celebrity when chatting with Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy. However, he went on to criticize cancel culture and voice his dislike of “mob rule.”
Nick began by saying:
First of all, I think not only in the Black community — and I’ve experienced it — but definitely just men a lot of times, we have that ego. We believe apologizing is weakness when it actually takes great strength to step up to anyone and say, ‘I was wrong. I know Baby. And that’s a strong brother…. That man just lost his pops, his brother, all the things that he… and still to have that big smile that he has every day, knowing everything….”
Then went on:
“He a fighter. We’ve seen his back against the wall. He’s swinging, he’s swinging just so he could get out of… We all have to accept emotion. To say ‘I’m sorry,’ that’s a self-proclamation. To apologize is an action. And to actually repent or atone is actually the next level because now you’re trying to understand, there’s education involved with that, there’s actually community involved with that. And that’s the other thing too, where I challenge all these people who actually want to cancel somebody, and even specifically in DaBaby’s situation, let’s use this as an opportunity for education. Because that’s what happened in my scenario.”
Touching on social media, demanding the canceling of Dababy, Nick said:
“I don’t agree with it. Just because it’s like, ‘What statement is that making other than you’re just following?’ It’s group think. It’s a mentality, it’s mob rule. Mob rule has never worked in any society, to where it’s like, ‘Oh well they did it! So we gotta do it. Even when I watched my process, where people I rocked with was like, ‘Man, well, they did, so we gotta follow suit.’ … This is a moment where we should all gather around DaBaby and embrace him because if we can do that, watch how many mentalities will change in the hip-hop community.”
The subject of education in this incident has previously been raised by Miley Cyrus who also took to social media to offer her support to the ‘Rockstar’ rapper and said she’d be available to further educate the rapper on the LGBTQIA community as she also identifies as one.
However, the issue here is not just about Dababy’s comments during his Rolling Loud act but largely based on his stance on the topic amid backlash. Baby initially doubled down on his assertions on stage, which in turn led to his removal from shows, before losing a deal with fashion brand BoohooMAN.
I tell fans to put a cellphone light in the air y’all start a million man March.✊🏾
I told you y’all digested that wrong 🤷🏾♂️but I ain’t gone lie I’m impressed.
Now show this same amount of support when a racist cop kill one of our black ass…YA NOT 😂
— DaBaby (@DaBabyDaBaby) July 27, 2021
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