DaBaby took to Instagram yesterday (March 8th) to apologize for hitting a female fan in the face at a club in North Tampa, Fla. In footage that he shared of the incident, the fan appeared to have tapped the rapper on the side of his forehead with her cellphone and that's when he hit her. The rapper took to Instagram and said, “I do sincerely apologize. I do. I’m very sorry that there was a female on the other end of that flashlight on their phone. But keep in mind I couldn’t see you, because you got the flash this close to me — which is okay, it’s no problem — a lot of people did. They didn’t put it as close as you put it… But out of all them fans, how many people knew how to zoom in — just zoom in — instead of popping me in the motherf–king eye with the phone? I think by now it’s a well-known fact that male or female, I would’ve responded the same way.”
He continued, “Of course I had security with me; the club, they had their security and s–t, but me, like, I make security treat fans with respect. I don’t like all that ra-ra s–t coming through, like, ‘Move, watch out, watch out!’ knocking people out. People paid to be here, we gotta respect them when we move through. I just wish you gave me the same respect in the return. You did not give me the same respect, baby. All you had to do was zoom in.”
The rapper offered to fly the fan out so that he could apologize in person and concluded by saying thathe wanted to “bring more witness to s–t like this to keep it from happening in the future. Male or female, let’s just try to conduct ourselves with respect.”
