Babyface has come ahead to clear his identify after Anita Baker claimed he gaslit followers to bully her, which in the end resulted in him being faraway from her tour.
On Thursday (June 22), the Grammy-Award successful songwriter appeared as a visitor on The Jason Lee Show and began off by discussing what Lee described as an “R & Beef” between himself and the “Sweet Love” singer.
Babyface made it clear that he loves Anita Baker and didn’t have a difficulty being a supporting act on the tour as a result of each of them have been coming collectively for the sake of the followers so they might hear nice music.
The LaFace co-founder then defined there have been many technical difficulties throughout the evening the whole lot went south on their joint tour, revealing {that a} video wall malfunctioned which prompted the viewers to be idle for almost two hours.
It was due to this he claims he was informed to not go on stage whereas stagehands have been attempting to repair the problem and in the end prompted him to not be capable of carry out his set that individual evening.
Finally, the “Whip Appeal” singer opened up about Baker’s claims that he gaslit her followers to cyberbully her on social media after he didn’t carry out on that particular evening.
“The issue was, for me, the only reason why I ultimately posted something was because people were booing after they announced that I wasn’t coming on,” Babyface stated. “[Fans] were pissed, and DM’s were coming in saying, ‘Babyface is a no-show,’ and I didn’t want that to be the story. I just tried to make an announcement to at least say, ‘Hey, I couldn’t go on tonight for technical difficulties. I was asked not to go on.’”
He added: “My love and respect for her is to the extent that, where she is and what she’s done in her career, and how she too has touched people with her music — I’m going to support that. That’s just who I am. And so, in all reality, for everything to have gone as crazy as it did, that was never my intention to ever think that it would, because that’s not my heart. I can’t believe that it rode out the way it rode out. Hence, there’s social media. And that’s what happens at this point.”
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Babyface was kicked off Anita Baker’s tour earlier this month. Baker revealed she couldn’t take any extra of the alleged abuse from Babyface’s followers on-line and announced that he had been cut from her Songstress Tour, which can proceed all through the rest of 2023.
“After Silently, Enduring Cyber Bulling/Verbal Abuse & Threats of Violence from the Fan Base, of Our Special Guest/Support Act,” Baker wrote on Twitter on the time. “In the Interest of Personal Safety. I will continue, The Songstress Tour, alone. Appropriate refunds will be made. Blessings.”
Babyface admitted he was “saddened” by the tour removing and the way in which issues performed out by way of social media:
“I am saddened by the news that Anita Baker has decided to remove me from The Songstress Tour,” he stated. “It’s unfortunate and disheartening to see how things have played out via social media.”
He continued: “While I was looking forward to the rest of the dates, I have nothing but love and respect for Anita and I wish her the best with for the remainder of the tour.”
Baker additionally responded to a sequence of tweets criticizing her, dubbing Babyface’s alleged “bully” followers as “Kenny’s Crazies.”
“There is A White man, behind these Grown Black Men… harassing Me & Gaslighting, My Fans,” she wrote whereas subliminally accusing anyone behind-the-scenes of the tour. “Because he Cant take over, this Tour… sO? He wants to Destroy it. Kenny’s Crazy Narcissist call off, your Boys.”
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Anita Baker continued claiming the web trolls wished to “fight” her: “These trolls… are *On Massa’s payroll*. Creating Fake News/Slander & Harassment. This is what, happens, when Boundaries & Blessings, Manifest into Beautiful Karma & Growth. #AnitaBaker They wanna fight a 65 yr old Woman.”
While loads of followers weighed in on the matter within the replies of each Anita Baker and Babyface’s respective posts on the time, R&B singer Tank put out a video defending Babyface and questioned Baker for sending certainly one of his “heroes” house from the tour in an Instagram put up final week.
“It’s really hard for me to stand by and let one of my heroes and one of the nicest human beings ever just be attacked and vilified for no reason,” Tank stated. “Someobody has to say something. When a man stands accused of something he hasn’t done anything.
“Now you kick him off the tour? I want to respect my elders — stay out of grown folks business is what they say, but somebody gotta say something. You’re doing this to Babyface?!”
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