Chingy‘s impending appearance at the Log Cabin Republicans’ upcoming Red White & Rock concert has gotten some criticism, but he’s not backing down.
The event, put on by “the nation’s original and largest organization representing gay conservatives and allies,” is happening on September 29 and is set to feature Jessica Sutta of the Pussycat Dolls and country rocker Jesse Keith Whitley, among others.
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More controversially, Donald Trump Jr. and his (maybe ex-)girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle will also be there.
Baller Alert posted about Chingy’s appearance on the bill, and the rapper himself jumped into the comments to respond to disappointed and confused fans. Check it out below.
Chingy responds to backlash over scheduled performance at Republican LGBT event
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— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) September 21, 2024
“I’m a say this one time,” he began. “My job is to perform and get paid to perform, not caurr [sic] about politics. Now y’all find [something] else to do with yurr [sic] time.”
After several commenters speculated that he was performing at the event, where ticket prices start at $1,000, because he was “down bad” financially, Chingy followed up.
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“You can’t be down bad when you just bought a 500k house,” he shot back. “Those people don’t hate me because they love my music. Music isn’t racist and that’s how I play it… I’m a performers w[h]ether theses [sic] people political homosexual or whatever they all love music… [M]y job as an artist is to perform and make timeless music.”
Chingy most recently made headlines last month when, seemingly out of nowhere, Drakepraised the St. Louis rapper’s 2003 hit “One Call Away” – but it was unclear if Drizzy was being serious or sarcastic.
Taking to his Instagram Story on August 18, Drizzy shared a screenshot of some of the song’s lyrics:
“The next day, I’m with the fellas at the cage playin’ ball/ Here she come with her friends, they posted up on the wall/ Now I’m showin’ out, tryna dunk, tryna dribble/ Break fast through the middle just to see her smile and giggle.”
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Underneath it, he wrote: “Nah Chingy I felt this like why do I play better when the tings aren’t watching you really struck a chord with this one goated lyric.”
He then had more to say, posting the screenshot a second time and adding: “Also, the face you said tryna dribble like off that bar we know you were ass at ball but your ting showed up and you started doing too much like this real af you are a guy for that bar.”
