Rapper Joey Bada$$ has cancelled three shows — including Saturday’s concert at Toronto’s Echo Beach — after tweeting about watching Monday’s solar eclipse without protective eyewear.

“Am I crazy for watching the eclipse today w no glasses? I’ve sungazed before and afterwards saw colors for a whole day. I didn’t die tho,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday.

“This ain’t the first solar eclipse and I’m pretty sure our ancestors ain’t have no fancy eyewear,” he continued. “Also pretty sure they ain’t all go blind.”

The next day he announced that his Toronto, Chicago and Cleveland shows on Logic’s “Everybody Tour” were cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances,” leading to speculation that the cancellations might have something to do with vision problems.

Was he merely fooling? On his Instagram account Tuesday, the rapper posted a photo of himself wearing eclipse-blocking eyewear after all.

His management team declined to comment.

Live Nation confirmed the cancellation. The Echo Beach concert, along with Logic and Big Lenbo, has been postponed until Sept. 28. Ticket holders can get a refund at the point of purchase until Sept. 8.

NASA said staring directly at the sun without the proper protective eyewear, even in an eclipse situation, can cause temporary or permanent blindness, as the eyes’ retinas get burned and damaged.

According to the space agency, the only safe method to view an eclipse is with special solar filter glasses that block out harmful rays, or by making a pinhole projector, that will create an image of the sun’s crescent on a background surface.

The 22-year-old Brooklyn rapper wasn’t the only one who looked directly at the sun on Monday.

United States president Donald Trump also squinted and pointed upwards without glasses, until a White House staffer noticed and yelled “don’t look!” at which point the president donned the protective eyewear.

The next solar eclipse in North American will be on April 8, 2024. The path of totality will pass much closer to Toronto.

GTA residents will be able to experience a complete eclipse just an hour away from the city centre, if they drive to Hamilton.