DaBaby’s run-in with two young kids trying to sell Skittles and Gushers for charity has exploded into a Twitter debate. On Monday (June 12), DaBaby was in New York City following an appearance at the ESPY Awards when he jumped out of his Mercedes Sprinter van with a large wad of cash and asked how much they were charging for the candy.
“How much for the whole box?” DaBaby asks to which the young man replies, “$200,” despite each unit being only $2 apiece.
After a little chuckle, DaBaby asks the other boy how much he wanted for his box of Gushers and gets the same answer.
“These n-iggas,” DaBaby says with a laugh. “You made $400 off that and you selling them for $2? Let’s count ’em. What’s 34 times two? It ain’t $200. It ain’t even $100 [laughs]. That’s $68.”
DaBaby ultimately gave them roughly $4 for some Gushers and drove away.
But some people on Twitter took issue with DaBaby’s treatment of the two young men, condemning the KIRK rap star for not giving them more of a chance to succeed.
As one Twitter user wrote, ‘Why would you as a Black man go and violate two Black boys selling snacks on the street? You’re supposed to give them some change and tell them to keep the snacks so they can hold on to more inventory. DaBaby is a fucking bozo and I want the worst for him.”
Another said, “Y’all talk about let black kids be kids, but don’t kids lie here and there, joke around, play, test their boundaries? Why are you crucifying literal children over $200 that means nothing to Dababy. Why can you not contextualize this, y’all aren’t millionaires. It’s getting weird
Others drew parallels to Meek Mill’s situation with a few Atlanta kids who were trying to hustle bottles of water on the street. Last December, Meek pulled up in a $400,000 car wearing flashy jewelry and told six kids to split $20, which didn’t sit right with people either.
“Between DaBaby & Meek Mill..I am tired of these rappers disrespecting these Black children,” one person wrote, while another said, “DaBaby and Meek Mill – not helping kids trying to make money selling stuff on the street.”
Still, there some people who supported DaBaby and thought the candy peddlers deserved the lesson, including Guapdad 4000 who said, “I actually agree with Dababy for doing them kids like that. They should have been better liars if anything + they had a horrible finesse game.”
Meanwhile, BNC News reporter Mike Hill said, “This is a lesson learned!! They thought they could get over. Now they just need to get over it.”
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Some people aren’t surprised people are standing in DaBaby’s corner though, with one person saying, “Not shocked that people are defending DaBaby. People dream of attaining excess wealth just so they can shit on others. They want their chance at being a rich dickhead.”
Check out some of the various responses below.
$4 for two packs of Gushers is hella expensive. You can get a box of 6 for 2 dollars and change…
So he’s supposed to give them 200 bucks simply for asking? That’s exactly how M.C. Hammer went broke.
I find it funny though, rappers talk about tricking off money for strippers, and name brand cars, clothes and shit, but you mad at some kids who see a star holding a stack of money trying to take advantage of the opportunity?
Then to say I WAS going to bless you, but because you asked, I’m not…what in the total f***?!?! This World is wild man, and Black people are double backwards.
Gimme some money.
Taught em it’s better to do solid business
I’m shocked he had the math correct.
If everyone got exactly what they deserve this world would be a very empty place.
Good old black community. Expecting people to reward lies and in future, crime. Then they cry about why they are put in jails.
The bottom line is just because he is a millionaire does not mean you should be paying more for something than everybody especially if the price is already set then that’s what you’re supposed to pay so if they are 2 bucks each then the price doesn’t escalate just because he is rich. That’s exactly how rich people go broke, by wasting money. Plus he more than likely was going to tip them more money but they just ruined it by lying.
He did nothing wrong. If the kids were smart(and let’s be real it’s not like they were 6 or 7 they look more like young men to me) they would’ve said “ they cost $2 but if you give me $3 I can make a lil profit off of it and be ahead of the game. Ppl respect honesty and he might have gone along with it but these lil bastards more than tripled the price and played themselves
I agree plus nne of them is bragging that he makes $400 A-day for charity, so let’s be honest thats probably not going to charity. Nobody brags about making money for charity.??
DaBaby fucking sucks and garbage music. That’s why it hurts to defend him here. Those kids are lying scumbags they didn’t deserve anything at all. Fuck em
So ig it’s fine in the world to humiliate kids like that and be put on the internet of embarrassing them like that ain’t it most like could end there life because social media wouldn’t accept them for their mistake but if I was one of those kids and saw a video of me on the internet I would feel more worse then I already was for scamming someone and have depression from that but I do see the point he was trying to do but it was the wrong way and could’ve handled the situation better instead of trying to expose kids on the internet for something really stupid so idk cuz nobody won’t care unless it was them doing it or deserve a special treatment and now you see how much money can change people
If there had been a Versace Logo on the chocolate, DaBaby would have paid 200k for it.