Joey Bada$$ says he messed up his eyes staring at the eclipse without glasses
Brooklyn-based rapper Joey Bada$$ proved his anti-authoritarian bona fides on Monday, when he ignored legions of warnings against viewing the total solar eclipse without special glasses and stared at the cosmic ballet with his bare eyes anyway. Bada$$’ Twitter and Instagram accounts tell two different versions of the event, as he posted a picture of himself chilling out wearing eclipse glasses on Instagram but claimed in a series of tweets that he was having vision problems after watching it without glasses on:
He canceled tour dates in Toronto, Cleveland, and Chicago shortly after, citing “unforseen circumstances” (good one, Joey) and implying that he had indeed sustained some sort of injury while defying the medical establishment with his naked retinas. That implication seems to have been confirmed shortly afterwards on his Instagram: