Snoop Dogg has been criticised after making weird feedback about LGBTQ+ storylines featured films meant for kids.
The American rapper and file producer, 53, whose actual title is Calvin Broadus Jr., was talking on the It’s Giving podcast when he recalled a narrative about taking his grandson to see a 2022 movie Lightyear.
A prequel spin-off to the primary Toy Story franchise, Lightyear adopted the actual life Buzz Lightyear upon which the doll from the unique movies was based mostly.
The movie was launched amid controversy over its depiction of a same-sex kiss, which was faraway from some variations by Disney and saved in others.
Nicely, it appears Snoop would have most well-liked to see the model of Lightyear with out the apparently ‘traumatic’ kiss – shared between two mums who seem within the movie.
‘They’re placing it all over the place,’ he instructed the present. ‘[Did she have] a child with one other girl? Nicely, my grandson, in the course of the film is like, “Papa Snoop? How she have a child with a lady? She’s a lady!”‘
Snoop then admitted to feeling like he ‘didn’t come to the films for this s**t’, including: ‘I simply got here to observe the goddamn film’.
The Drop It Like It’s Sizzling hitmaker then confessed that he was now ‘scared to go to the films’, saying: ‘Y’all throwing me in the course of s**t that I don’t have a solution for.
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His uncommon rambling continued: ‘These are children. We’ve got to indicate [two women kissing] at this age? They’re going to ask questions and I don’t have the reply.’
The irony that Papa Snoop’s grandson might hearken to one in every of his granddad’s greatest hits – Gin & Juice – and listen to the lyric ‘I’ve acquired b*****s in the lounge getting it on’ appeared to sail straight over the rapper’s head.
On Reddit, person @Mulliganasty didn’t mince their phrases, saying, ‘Racists stated this sort of s**t about blended marriages,’ whereas MelodicChemistry40 added, ‘It’s actually not arduous to clarify in any respect.’
Yeah, we don’t find out about you, Snoop. However we’d simply say the 2 mums in Lightyear merely adopted their son. Like 1000’s of different mother and father do. However you do you.
OkayWerkk hit again at Snoop: ‘What’s there to clarify? I used to work in a faculty and even the 4 yr olds accepted with out query that one of many boys had two dads? It’s actually not tough!’
The805ChickenLady summed it up greatest: ‘So two chicks getting it on are okay in rap movies, however it’s not okay to have two ladies being portrayed as loving moms? Obtained it, Snoop.’
This newest controversy comes amid requires Snoop to be axed from performing on the the Australian Soccer League grand last after an AFL participant obtained a four-match ban for utilizing a homophobic slur on the sphere.
Sarah Hanson-Younger, a politician in Australia, stated (through 9): ‘Simply final week the AFL suspended Izak Rankine for utilizing a homophobic slur, but Snoop Dogg is ready to get $2 million to play his misogynistic, homophobic music on our turf.’
And naturally this current remark has come simply months after Snoop was hammered on-line for performing on the inauguration celebration of US President Donald Trump.
In 2024, the beforehand outspoken Trump critic had backtracked, telling The Occasions: ‘Donald Trump? He ain’t finished nothing mistaken to me. He has finished solely nice issues for me.’
Referring to Trump’s pardoning of Snoop collaborator Michael Harris, who had been in jail for medication prices, Snoop elaborated: ‘So I’ve nothing however love and respect for Donald Trump.’
Metro has reached out to Snoop Dogg’s UK representatives.
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