DaBaby is scheduled to perform at Rolling Loud Miami 2022 in July, a year after receiving widespread condemnation over homophobic comments he made from the festival’s main stage.
The controversial rapper, born Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, will perform on July 23 — the second day of the three-day festival — according to the official lineup released on Tuesday.
He’ll perform along with Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy and Gunna, on a night headlined by Future.
Last year, DaBaby stunned the festival’s audience after making hateful and ignorant comments about the LGBTQ community and HIV/AIDS during his set.
“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two, three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up,” DaBaby said. “Fellas, if you ain’t sucking d— in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up.”
Later the rapper seemed to double-down on his ignorant remarks, saying on Instagram Live that people who get infected are “stupid ass n—s,” and calling HIV-positive people “nasty” and “junkies on the street.”
His comments sparked an immediate backlash by social media users, as well as several music powerhouses — including Madonna, Elton John and Dua Lipa, with whom he collaborated in a remix of her megahit “Levitating.”
The backlash also led to fashion brand bohooMAN, as well as major music festivals to distance themselves from the “Rockstar” singer.
He was cut off from the iHeartRadio Music Festival, Austin City Limits, Day N Vegas, as well as Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.
On Aug. 2, organizers for the 10th anniversary of The Governors Ball in New York City also removed the rapper from the festival’s lineup. Without mentioning his name, a statement read that “Founders Entertainment does not and will not tolerate hate or discrimination of any kind.”
A rep for Rolling Loud Miami didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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