Madonna is the latest boldface name to condemn 29-year-old rapper DaBaby’s comments he made at the Rolling Loud festival in Miami last weekend. The “Rockstar” rapper immediately came under fire for making homophobic and misogynistic comments onstage at the hip-hop festival Sunday, specifically sharing inaccurate claims about gay men and HIV. As such, the Material Girl, a longtime HIV/AIDS research proponent and ally to the LGBTQ community, chastised him while attempting to educate him. “If you’re going to make hateful remarks to the LGBTQ+ community about HIV/AIDS then know your facts,” Madonna wrote on Instagram beside a video of DaBaby making his explicit comments. She went on to explain that AIDS “is not transmitted by standing next to someone in a crowd.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 30, 2021 21:33 UTC