The lesson here is simple: Don’t stare down your rival, because they’ll burn your damn eye balls out.
Rapper Joey Badass is known for his thought-provoking, defiant music, willing to make a stand where others aren’t. But that attitude, while great when applied to human interaction and hip hop, is commendable, maybe don’t use the same logic when looking into the sun.
Joey announced on Twitter this week that he had to cancel some shows, due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Now, for most musical acts, multiple issues could cause them to cancel. Justin Bieber just canceled his Purpose World with the same reasoning: “unforeseen circumstances.” Other major performers, even Frank Ocean, use the same language when explaining show cancellations to cover all their bases.
But those “unforeseen circumstances” aren’t so unforeseen in discussing Mr. Badass. In fact, these circumstances were highly foreseen! Earlier on Monday, the Brooklyn native asked his followers if he was “crazy” for watching the eclipse without specialized glasses that every national scientific institution ensured you should use. Joey added that he’s “sungazed” before and “saw colors for a whole day” but didn’t die.
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“This ain’t the first solar eclipse and I’m pretty sure our ancestors ain’t have no fancy eyewear. Also pretty sure they ain’t all go blind,” Joey also tweeted.
You can be the judge on those “unforeseen circumstances.” Remember Joey cancelled his tour dates the day following these tweets and the solar eclipse. The “Everybody” tour, where Joey is the opening act and these are the tour dates he canceled, will continue as planned. So it isn’t a tour issue, just a Joey Badass one.
In addition, Joey retweeted the below meme. In it, the user poked fun at Joey ignoring “scientific evidence” to instead stare into the sun. He’s also retweeted a few other mention that looking into the eclipse was the reason for his canceling the tour dates.
— Mac Faulkner (@macfaulkner) August 23, 2017
Look, I understand thinking you’re better than the sun, the sole reason for all human existence and the massive energy source which powers all life on earth. But the lesson here is simple: Don’t stare down your rival, because they’ll burn your damn eye balls out.
