During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been some uncertainty about how to relate to these movements.
Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion. I say 'whatever your insecurities are' because as we very well know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we are afraid we might be homosexual; and we want to hit th woman or shut her up because we are afraid that she might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start with.
Huey P. Newton, "the women's liberation and gay liberation movements: August 15, 1970", cf. The Huey P. Newton Reader, Edited By David Hilliard and Donald Weise
I really dislike public moralization. It reeks of neoliberal paternalism.
However, continuing his justification for recent antics, DaBaby released a 19 part Instagram visual mixtape.
In this tirade, he states:
"I'mma address this weekend's internet sh-- one time and then I'mma get back to giving my love to my fans, see what I'm saying? Because what me and my fans do at the live show, it don't concern all you n---as on the internet or you bitter bi---es on the internet. It's not y'all's business. What I do at a live show is for the audience at the live show. It'll never translate correctly to somebody looking at a little five-, six-second clip from they gotdamn crib on their phone. It just don't work like that, right? Regardless of what y'all motherf---ers are talking about and how the internet twisted up my motherf---ing words, me and all my fans at the show, the gay ones and the straight ones, we turned the f--- up. I'm talking about my boy that was at the front of stage left where I jumped, ask him. He got clips all on his sh--. The whole night was recorded. We were turning up the whole night. My boy had the crop top on front row. He out there in that jungle, in that water. He out there, standing on the rail, cutting up. He knows the words to the song. I saw him. I'm rapping them bi---es with 'em.
"Y'all talking, y'all n---as shut the f--- up."
"You n---as that ain't at the show, the show was for the n----as who paid the money and took the time out their life to come enjoy the show. Not you motherf---ers watching it on the internet, at the crib. No n---a, get your tickets. Come f--- with the live show killa, gay or straight."
"Don’t let these muthaf—-s…I say, if you don’t got AIDS, put your cellphone light up. I say if you don’t suck dick in the parking lot, put your cellphone lights up. So, I could drop my next song. I wasn’t going on no rant. That’s called a call to action. That’s what that’s called. ‘Cause I’m a live performer. I’m the best. I’m the live show killer. You interact with your fans. You get what I’m saying?"
“Look. All the lights went up. Gay or straight. Want to know why?”
"Cause even my gay fans don't got f---ing AIDS, stupid a-- n---as. They don't got AIDS. My gay fans, they take care of themselves. They ain't no nasty gay n---as. See what I'm saying? They ain't no junkies in the street. The hell you talking about, n---as? Then I said if you ain't sucking di-- in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up. You know what my gay fans did? Put that motherf---ing light up, n---a, 'cause my gay fans ain't going for that. They got class. They ain't sucking no di-- in no parking lot. N---a, you gotta get a room. A good one, five-star hotel. Even my gay fans got standards."
I believe in public redemption. I believe that a society should either provide sincere and effective means of reeducating its members when they publicly violate its ideals, or they should provide that person with a means to survive as an exile somewhere else.
I do not think whyte people should be allowed to implement this redress, however. Nor do I think DaBaby is a “garbage” human. I think he is a human. I do not know him, however, I do believe this contemporary era’s embrase of liberal patronizing and neoliberal public flogging lacks humanity enough to rightfully provide DaBaby with proper guidance here.
I absolutely believe his fans, including his gay fans, enjoyed theyself at his show. His gay fans probably enjoy it more than many of his straight ones. So do women being called “bytches” and “hoes” at these sorts of venues. In that same manner that male performers situate these women in an hierarchy of stigmatized roles, DaBaby has created a pecking order of sorts for his gay fans. Either they do not have AIDS/HIV, or they are “nasty” or “junkies”.
I see a similar pattern occuring with corporations that coopt gay symbolism for profits.
I do believe that DaBaby needs immediate and deep reeducation. Nothing academic or corporate training-based. He needs a serious understanding of AIDS/HIV. He needs a serious understanding of these backwards hierarchies he holds onto. He needs to read Balagoon. He needs to read Huey. He needs to read Baldwin.
And yes, he also needs his mic cut off during this process.