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Lil Durk Takes Time To Recover After Being Injured At Lollapalooza

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Lil Durk among many other artists took the stage at Chicago’s Lollapalooza. While the festival was a hit, Durk had a rough time finishing up his set due to an onstage explosion.

On Saturday, July 30, Lil Durk was rushed to the hospital after his Lollapalooza performance. According to HipHop DX, Durk suffered from a minor face injury as he accidentally walked into two onstage explosions. While performing, smoke effects burst out from the floor of the stage, hitting the rapper directly in the eye. Immediately the show was paused as he started walking backward while pulling up his shirt to wipe his eyes.

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After the incident Lil Durk went on to finish his set, showing immense love for his fans. Taking to Instagram, yesterday, July 31st, the 7220 artist posted up in a hospital bed with his eye wrapped to update his fans that he will be taking a break in order to recover.

“Due to the incident that happened at Lollapalooza in Chicago on stage, I’ma take a break & focus on my health. I finished my performance yesterday for my fans. Appreciate y’all.”

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In other recent news, about a month ago FMHipHop reported the release of Cardi B’s Hot Sh*t collab featuring Lil Durk and Kanye West. Our source indicates that originally the song was going to arrive without a music video, however the trio never disappoints and we were lucky enough to get one. Lil Durk even stated the track may be “song of the year.”

As FMHipHop continues to wish Lil Durk a speedy recovery, the rapper also took to Instagram just days ago to announce his song, “What Happened To Virgil” featuring Gunna, hitting #1 on Urban Radio. As for Lollapalooza, the festival was a success with performances from Lil Baby, J Cole, Big Sean, Dua Lipa, Machine Gun Kelly and more.

 

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Rapper J-Hope Makes History As First Korean Act To Headline Lollapalooza

Rapper J-Hope Makes History As First Korean Act To Headline Lollapalooza

Another member of Grammy-nominated K-pop group BTS is about to make history. J-Hope, one of the group’s three rappers, will be the first Korean act to take the main stage at a major American festival. He will headline the last day of the festival. Lollapalooza and J-Hope made the announcement Tuesday, June 7. In the Instagram post’s comments, the reactions were overwhelmingly positive. This is partially due to BTS’ large fan base, also known as ARMY. Some social media users, however, weren’t so keen on the news. “This is just horrid,” one of them said. Despite some negative comments, ARMY is likely to follow J-Hope wherever he goes, proving the rapper deserves his spot on the Lollapalooza stage.

 

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J-Hope, affectionately called Hobi by fans, made his own short but sweet Instagram post about the upcoming festival. “It’s a thrilling new challenge that I think will become a really memorable chapter in my musical history!” it reads. “I’m gonna give you guys a great show. Get ready to get crazyyyyyy!”

J-Hope’s Long Journey to Center Stage

J-Hope, who is from Kwangju, South Korea and whose real name is Jung Hoseok, has come a long way to international fame. He started out in a hip-hop dance crew, then debuted as a rapper and dancer with BTS in 2013. In addition to being part of a group that speaks at the United Nations and the White House, Hobi has quite a few accomplishments under his belt as a solo artist. According to Music Chart Archives, the rapper’s first mixtape Hope World peaked at no. 38 on the Billboard 200 in 2018. Six of the songs reached the World’s Digital Songs Chart, with “Daydream” debuting at no. 1. The following year, he became the first member of BTS to enter The Hot 100 after collaborating with Becky G on “Chicken Noodle Soup.” Hobi is also a philanthropist, donating to causes that help children affected economically by COVID-19 in South Korea and children facing violence in Tanzania. He’s also donated to Korean charities to help children with visual and hearing disabilities as well as low-income families.

Hobi’s HYBE labelmates Tomorrow x Together will make their US debut at Lollapalooza as well. Tickets for the festival are on sale now. The festival takes place from July 28 to July 31 at Grant Park in Chicago, IL.

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DaBaby Doesn’t Follow Up On HIV/AIDS Awareness Organization Pledges

The LGBTQ community canceled DaBaby after his insensitive comments in July. During his set at Rolling Loud, he said the following 

“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cell phone lighter up. Ladies, if your pussy smell like water, put your cellphone light in the air. Fellas, if you ain’t sucking dick in the parking lot, put your cell phone lighter up.”

Given this statement, you can see why others were quick to bash the KIRK rapper. Festivals immediately took him off their sets, including Lollapalooza, the Governor’s Ball, and Day’ N Vegas.

To make matters worse, DaBaby didn’t make right of his wrongs afterward. Instead, he insisted that his fans were nowhere in that health bracket.  

“My gay fans, they take care of themselves,” he said in a previous Instagram Story. “They ain’t no nasty gay n-ggas. See what I’m saying? They ain’t no junkies in the street. The hell you talking about, n-gga? Then I said if you ain’t sucking dick in the parking lot, put your cell phone lighter up. You know what my gay fans did? Put that mutahfuckin’ light up, n-gga, ’cause my gay fans ain’t going for that. They got class. They ain’t sucking no dick in no parking lot.”

But, he seemingly redeemed himself in August when he met up with several LGBTQ+ advocates. Companies like GLAAD and the Black AIDS Institute issued a joint statement, explaining they educated DaBaby on HIV/AIDS. They even shared personal stories.

DaBaby then apologized for the “inaccurate and hurtful comments he made about people living with HIV and received our personal stories and the truth about HIV and its impact on Black and LGBTQ communities with deep respect.”

However, according to The Daily Beast, DaBaby has failed to donate to the said causes. And he deleted his apology. So was he really sincere about how he felt towards the issue?

“The onus is now on him,” Black AIDS Institute consultant Pavni Guharoy said, “if he chooses to convert his misinformation into allyship by supporting the work of the Black AIDS Institute and other people of color-led HIV organizations.”

Additionally, DaBaby never partnered with those he met during World AIDS Day. They never heard from him again.

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Instead of facing further consequences, Rolling Loud declared that he “grown and learned from his experience.” They backed this up by saying they support second chances. 

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Meg Thee Stallion Addresses Homophobia in Hip Hop

Meg Thee Stallion says “it’s about time” for representation and acceptance in hip hop.
Meg Thee Stallion says “it’s about time” for representation and acceptance in hip hop.

Cash Sh*t collaborator, Da Baby, has been under fire recently for his homophobic rant about HIV/AIDS. During his Rolling Loud Miami set on July 25, the rapper brought out Tory Lanez, who has been charged with shooting Meg thee Stallion last summer, before proceeding to go on his homophic rant:

“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up,” he said. “Ladies, if your p—y smell like water, put your cellphone lighter up. Fellas, if you ain’t sucking di– in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up.”

It didn’t take long before fans and celebrities started speaking out against Da Baby 

Music industry icons, like Madonna and Elton John, expressed their disgust in Da Baby’s views. The outpour of contempt over Da Baby’s rant has been severe. More than 8 festivals (so far) to pull the 29-year-old rapper from their line ups. Some of them being pop-culture festival traditions, like Lollapalooza, iHeart Radio, and the Governer’s Ball NYC.

Back in June 2020, the “ex-work couple” Meg thee Stallion and Da Baby argued back and forth on Twitter about Da Baby’s involvement with Tory Lanez. Prior to Baby releasing his song “Skat” featuring Lanez, controversy arose. Several fans pointed out a retweeted post by Da Baby that made light of Megan getting shot.

“I guess @DaBabyDaBaby and @torylanez cool now bc they both shot somebody and don’t have to do no jail time,” the tweet read.

Da Baby denied these allegations, claiming the retweet came from a Twitter bug or a hacker.

Without mentioning her foe by name, in her most recent interview with People, Meg the Stallion expressed the need for acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community 

“It is about time. Representation is important, and it is really crucial for us all to have compassion and acceptance of every human.”

In June 2019, Meg the Stallion made sure to hold herself accountable when her old homophobic tweets from 2011 and 2012 resurfaced online. The Houston rapper acknowledged she made the insensitive comments back in high school and “obviously meant no harm.” A more mature woman now, she tweeted,

“I’ve already apologized for tweets that obviously do not represent my views now. I don’t do nothing but show love to everyone so just stop.”

Megan talks about her love for the LGBTQ+ community, becoming a college graduate, and learning BitCoin in the full interview with People here. 

To see the viral open-note letter from GLAAD to Baby, check it out here. 

 

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