Snoop Dogg is back in headlines, this time for admitting he’s “scared to go to the movies” thanks to seeing same-sex parents in a Disney film.
The 53-year-old rapper, who’s set to headline the 2025 AFL Grand Final, recently appeared on the It’s Giving podcast and shared his reaction to watching Lightyear with his grandson.
“What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” Snoop said, referring to LGBTQIA+ storylines in kids’ movies.
About the scene, he explained, “They’re like, ‘She had a baby with another woman.’ Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’”
It clearly caught Snoop off-guard. He recounted, “‘Oh shit, I didn’t come in for this shit. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,’” saying his grandson wouldn’t let it go.
“‘They just said, she and she had a baby, they’re both women. How does she have a baby?’”
Snoop said the whole encounter “threw [him] for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?’” and he added that after watching the animated film made for children, he is now afraid of going to the movies.
“I’m scared to go to the movies now, like y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for.”
All this comes right as the AFL faces its own nightmare PR scenario. The league’s copped backlash for getting Snoop Dogg to play the Grand Final, at a time when it’s just suspended Adelaide Crows’ Izak Rankine for four matches after he used a homophobic slur during a game. Rankine’s just the latest player to get penalised for this type of language — six players have now been suspended in two seasons.
AFL CEO Andrew Dillon’s choice of Snoop Dogg isn’t without controversy — the musician’s been called out in the past for using the f-slur in his song “Doggz Gonna Get Ya”, and a deleted 2014 Instagram Post with an image of two men with the caption “go suck ya man n get off my line f. A. G.”, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald.
Dillon told The Daily Telegraph, “We cannot vouch for every lyric, in every song, ever written or performed, by any artist who has or will appear on our stage,” insisting the show will be “family friendly” and pointing to Snoop’s more recent reputation: “He has spoken publicly about his past, he has changed, and today he is a grandfather [and a] philanthropist, he helps rehabilitate youth, and he’s a global entertainer.”
I can’t imagine that Snoop’s latest podcast appearance has helped this so-called theory.
Still, the fallout isn’t dying down. Former AFL players Brendan Fevola and David Schwarz have said they reckon Snoop will be dropped before the event, mostly due to the backlash over both his comments and old lyrics.
“I think he will get the arse, and they are going to go for an Aussie artist to play at the MCG. That will happen, take that to the bank. He will get the [arse], which he should,” Fevola said on 101.9 The Fox.
With the biggest footy day of the year just weeks away, Snoop Dogg’s movie confession has turned an already heated debate about inclusivity in sport into an even bigger drama.
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