Posted on 08/25/2017 8:16:39 AM PDT by Gamecock
For a rapper whose debut single was called "Unorthodox," Joey Bada$$ isn't one to accept conventional wisdom. Defying widespread warnings, he proudly stared at the solar eclipse without protection. It didn't turn out to be a great idea. The rapper cancelled three shows starting Wednesday as he complained about his vision.
The 22-year-old Brooklyn rapper on Monday shared on social media that he was gazing into the sky without special glasses as the United States witnessed its first coast-to-coast total eclipse in nearly a century. "This ain't the first solar eclipse and I'm pretty sure our ancestors ain't have no fancy eyewear. Also pretty sure they ain't all go blind," he tweeted.
But he also said that he was seeing in different colors. He said his three shows -- in Cleveland, Chicago and Toronto -- were canceled due to "unforeseen circumstances" and hinted that his vision was to blame. "Seeing double, stacking triple," he tweeted Wednesday, using hip-hop slang for cashing in.
The rapper -- whose latest album, "All-Amerikkkan Bada$$," tackles racism, mass incarceration and other issues facing the United States -- had unlikely company in his defiance at staring at the eclipse. U.S. President Donald Trump also looked into the sky without protection as cameras were on him, but only briefly. He has not reported any vision issues since.
He now has fried eyes and the same very bad hair. Lol.
Wow, not only did viewing that partially-eclipsed Sun affect his eyesight, apparently it also seriously impacted his ability to use proper English grammar....
,,,,,,,,,,let’s face it ,,,, you don’t have to be very bright to be a rapper . Now he can change his name to Bad@$$ Blind Boy .
"Whoa......we'll never get THAT on the album cover!"
I think he just took a quick glimpse in the general vicinity of the son after he took off the glasses and they snapped the photo and presented it in the worse possible light. See tagline.
True. But he applied his superior reasoning skills as to why it was safe for him to do so.
Other were just dumb. He took it to another level.
why do these cretins constantly behave as if the rules dont apply to them?
retinal darwin candidate
There ain’t no cure for stupid.
What a surprise.
Now presenting the rapping legend . . . JOEY BLIND@$$!
DANG!
LOL!
Robert E. Lee’s horse Traveller made him do it.
Welcome to the worlds of Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. Pity you don’t have .0001% of their talent or brains.
Complete idiot. It’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature or the Lord God above.
Must suck to be him.
“...staring into the sun screws up your hair...”
It didn’t... the hair part came from the other warning he ignored... the one about not peeing on the electric fence.
Shocking ignorance...
All President Trump really has to do is order his opponents not to stare at the sun. We would have a bunch of blind Never Trumpers, blind Democrats, blind BLM idiots, blind Muslims, blind North Koreans, and assorted other blind Soros thugs.
How could the eclipse have been raciss if it darkened da erf for two minutes?
Joey Bada$$. Explains why this braided creature is stupider than worm’s poop.
Now he can be the new Stevie Wonder.................
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