Angel Reese Faces Backlash For Promoting Podcast With Dababy

Angel Reese has once more evoked robust reactions from folks, this time for selling an upcoming interview with DaBaby, a rapper who was canceled in 2021 after making controversial feedback about girls and members of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood throughout Rolling Loud.

Over the weekend, Angel Reese and her podcast workforce, @AngelReeseShow on X, previously Twitter, confronted a wave of backlash after sharing that they’d be filming an upcoming episode of her present, “Unapologetically Angel,” with the “SHAKE SUMN” performer.

Since launching her podcast in September 2024, Reese has interviewed a number of high-profile company, together with Shaquille O’Neal, Lisa Leslie, Lonzo Ball, GloRilla, Latto, and extra.

Primarily based on a submit that has since been deleted, Reese and her workforce have been making ready for an episode with the controversial rapper DaBaby. Within the image, the WNBA star and her social media workforce requested her followers to ship in questions for the performer, whose actual identify is Jonathan Kirk.

Instantly after sharing the submit on her social media feeds, the Chicago Sky rookie was met with extra resistance than she doubtless anticipated.

Many customers questioned why the 22-year-old, who has a various fanbase, would align herself with somebody who was canceled for making deeply offensive remarks about a number of communities.

“Who’s advising Angel Reese on this podcast visitor?” somebody requested on X. “Trigger truthfully, why in your entire world would anybody, particularly girls, whom I assumed was her viewers, need to hear from DaBaby?”

A second consumer clearly agreed and slammed Reese for inviting “identified rampant homophone and misogynist DaBaby” on her podcast. “He has made disgusting remarks about gays and HIV,” they continued.

For individuals who could also be unfamiliar with the scenario, DaBaby was a rising star in 2020, showing on common songs with Jack Harlow and Dua Lipa. Nevertheless, his gentle started to dim after he was captured making problematic feedback in regards to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood and girls throughout his efficiency on the Rolling Loud pageant in 2021.

“In the event you didn’t present up right now with HIV, AIDS, or any of them lethal sexually transmitted illnesses that’ll make you die in two to a few weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up,” DaBaby told the viewers.

“Women, in case your p—y scent like water, put your cellphone lighter up. Fellas, in the event you ain’t sucking d-ck within the parking zone, put your cellphone lighter up,” he continued.

Though his feedback have been made practically 5 years in the past, folks have not forgotten, and Reese’s partnership with him clearly threw lots of her followers for a loop.

“The truth that she thought it was cool to start with is a aspect eye for me,” somebody wrote. “Due to all folks—him—and she or he’s speculated to be pals with [Megan Thee Stallion].”

“Angel Reese’s character has been hanging out with DDG and transphobes … what makes you assume she cares about DaBaby being a homophobic zionist?” one other individual requested.

After DaBaby’s comments have been shared on-line, the Cleveland-born rapper discovered himself on the middle of a firestorm he doubtless did not anticipate. Nevertheless, some well-known faces, together with rapper T.I., have been blissful to defend him.

“In the event you gonna have the Lil Nas X video and him dwelling his fact, you gonna d-mn certain have folks like DaBaby who gonna converse their fact,” he mentioned. “Ain’t nothing mistaken with none of it; it ain’t bought to be no hate—it’s all honesty. All people dwelling of their fact.”

DaBaby additionally doubled down on his stance and informed his detractors to “shut the f-ck up” after the unfavorable consideration.

“My homosexual followers, they deal with themselves. They ain’t no nasty homosexual n—as. See what I’m saying? They ain’t no junkies on the street,” he continued. “Then I mentioned in the event you ain’t sucking d-ck within the parking zone, put your cellphone lighter up. You understand what my homosexual followers did? Put that motherf-cking gentle up, n—a, ’trigger my homosexual followers ain’t going for that. They bought class. They ain’t sucking no d-ck in no parking zone.”

Dua Lipa, who initially launched a model of her common music “Levitating” with DaBaby, additionally spoke out about his feedback and condemned him earlier than saying she did not “acknowledge this because the individual I labored with.”

She continued and reminded her followers that she was in full help of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood and that she was dedicated to serving to change the “stigma and ignorance” surrounding HIV/AIDS.

It is unclear if Reese will nonetheless sit down with DaBaby for an episode of her podcast.

On the time of this publication, the posts that promoted his look have since been deleted, and nobody from Reese’s workforce has commented on the unfavorable suggestions.

A social media consumer identified the backlash and chastised Reese for not standing her floor.

“Angel Reese permitting herself to be bullied into pulling her episode with DaBaby is lame [as f-ck],” they commented.

Apart from her working relationship with DaBaby, folks have been speaking about Reese recently due to her feedback about WNBA gamers probably sitting out of a future season if they don’t seem to be paid more cash.

Throughout a dialog she had with Dijonai Carrington of the Dallas Wings, the LSU alum revealed she and others might be “sitting out” if the league “do not give us what we wish.”

Particular pretend information social media accounts, which, by the best way, thrive on spreading misinformation, created a lie that Reese mentioned she ought to be paid as a lot as her NBA counterparts, which triggered her to slam them for creating pretend quotes for consideration.

“For anyone they ‘hate’ a lot, actually be having them so riled up,” Reese wrote. “Having to inform lies for engagement is crazyyyy work.”