Snoop Dogg has been criticised after making bizarre comments about LGBTQ+ storylines featured movies intended for children.
The American rapper and record producer, 53, whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jr., was speaking on the It’s Giving podcast when he recalled a story about taking his grandson to see a 2022 film Lightyear.
A prequel spin-off to the main Toy Story franchise, Lightyear followed the real life Buzz Lightyear upon which the doll from the original films was based.
The film was released amid controversy over its depiction of a same-sex kiss, which was removed from some versions by Disney and kept in others.
Well, it seems Snoop would have preferred to see the version of Lightyear without the apparently ‘traumatic’ kiss – shared between two mums who appear in the film.
‘They’re putting it everywhere,’ he told the show. ‘[Did she have] 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!”‘
Snoop then admitted to feeling like he ‘didn’t come to the movies for this s**t’, adding: ‘I just came to watch the goddamn movie’.
The Drop It Like It’s Hot hitmaker then confessed that he was now ‘scared to go to the movies’, saying: ‘Y’all throwing me in the middle of s**t that I don’t have an answer for.
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His unusual rambling continued: ‘These are kids. We have to show [two women kissing] at this age? They’re going to ask questions and I don’t have the answer.’
The irony that Papa Snoop’s grandson could listen to one of his granddad’s biggest hits – Gin & Juice – and hear the lyric ‘I’ve got b*****s in the living room getting it on’ seemed to sail straight over the rapper’s head.
On Reddit, user @Mulliganasty didn’t mince their words, saying, ‘Racists said this kind of s**t about mixed marriages,’ while MelodicChemistry40 added, ‘It’s really not hard to explain at all.’
Yeah, we don’t know about you, Snoop. But we’d just say the two mums in Lightyear simply adopted their son. Like thousands of other parents do. But you do you.
OkayWerkk hit back at Snoop: ‘What is there to explain? I used to work in a school and even the 4 year olds accepted without question that one of the boys had two dads? It’s really not difficult!’
The805ChickenLady summed it up best: ‘So two chicks getting it on are okay in rap videos, but it’s not okay to have two women being portrayed as loving mothers? Got it, Snoop.’
This latest controversy comes amid calls for Snoop to be axed from performing at the the Australian Football League grand final after an AFL player received a four-match ban for using a homophobic slur on the field.
Sarah Hanson-Young, a politician in Australia, said (via Nine): ‘Just last week the AFL suspended Izak Rankine for using a homophobic slur, yet Snoop Dogg is set to get $2 million to play his misogynistic, homophobic music on our turf.’
And of course this recent comment has come just months after Snoop was hammered online for performing at the inauguration party of US President Donald Trump.
In 2024, the previously outspoken Trump critic had backtracked, telling The Times: ‘Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me.’
Referring to Trump’s pardoning of Snoop collaborator Michael Harris, who had been in prison for drugs charges, Snoop elaborated: ‘So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.’
Metro has reached out to Snoop Dogg’s UK representatives.
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