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What Now? with Trevor Noah

DaBaby Gets Real About Hip Hop Culture

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Trevor sits down with Grammy-nominated rapper DaBaby, who just a few years ago was the face of hip-hop with multiple hit singles to his name. Then a controversial moment at the Rolling Loud festival in 2021 changed everything. Trevor and DaBaby face that moment head-on, as well as DaBaby’s challenging upbringing in North Carolina, how he understands his own role as a father, and whether he has any regrets.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. So today I'm having a conversation with the hip-hop artist DeBaby.

0:06.0

There was a point when DeBaby was literally the face of hip-hop, one of the biggest artists in the world.

0:11.0

He conquered all of the hip-hop stages and all the way to the Grammys. He was killing it.

0:16.0

Until one day, he made statements at the Rolling Loud Festival, which many people deemed

0:21.0

extremely homophobic and everything in his career changed.

0:24.9

The Baby is one of the hottest rappers in the game, but after making some wild comments

0:28.6

during his Rolling Loud performance, major celebrities like Elton John and Quest Love have

0:32.7

called him out, saying his actions are ignorant and homophobic.

0:35.4

The baby is doubling down on his seemingly homophobic and disturbing remarks made on stage at Rolling Loud in Miami.

0:41.2

Now, since then, the baby has still been a performer, he's still been an artist,

0:45.6

and many of us the question, has he learned, has he changed, and what has he learned or changed from that experience?

0:51.2

Well, today, we're chatting to him about all of this.

0:58.6

Music that experience. Well, today, we're chatting to him about all of it. This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

1:08.7

What's going on? Happy podcast day, everybody. How you doing? Good. How are you? I'm fantastic. Me and Mandem's having a great time, blood. Can I tell you something? I think I'm going to move to London. Yeah. I'm having the time of my life. I just love it. What part are you staying in?

1:28.3

All of it, blood, all of it.

1:30.3

I got bare man's, in it?

1:32.3

So I've been riding the tube to my shows, which you know what strange?

1:38.3

It's like everyone in London tells you to ride the tube, but then when you ride the tube,

1:42.3

everyone asks you why you're writing the tube, which is a very strange thing.

1:46.0

Literally I'm on the train every single day going to my show and then people are you doing here?

1:51.0

What are you doing riding the tube?

1:53.0

And you're like, well, it's the fastest wave.

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