Snoop Dogg is opening up about being “scared to go to the movies” because of LGBTQ+ representation in children’s films. According to Complex, the rapper recounted an incident with his grandson while they watched Pixar’s Lightyear that “threw [him] for a loop.”
Snoop said he was uncomfortable when his grandson asked about same-sex relationships
The Doggfather appeared on the It’s Giving podcast, where he talked about marriage, parenting and masculinity. Around 30 minutes into the episode, Snoop shared his experience watching Lightyear with his grandson, who had questions about how the movie’s protagonist, Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), had a child with her wife.
“They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman,'” he said. “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 recalled how uncomfortable his grandson’s questions made him.
“‘Oh s**t, I didn’t come in for this s**t. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,’ Snoop remembered thinking.
But his grandson kept asking questions.
“‘They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?'”
The rapper reflected that the experience “f**ked me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s**t that I don’t have an answer for.”
Snoop said the questions “threw me for a loop.”
“I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?” he continued.
Later, he expounded on his discomfort with LGBTQ+ representation in children’s movies.
“These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer,” he said.
Snoop Dogg is in hot water on social media for his controversial comments
Snoop’s comments have landed him in hot water on social media, with many calling for the removal of the rapper as the headline entertainer at the Australian Football League’s Grand Final on Sept. 27.
It’s not the first time Snoop has caught heat for comments considered homophobic and transphobic. In 2014, folks called him out for using a homophobic slur, and the following year, he was criticized for calling Caitlyn Jenner a “science project.”
‘Lightyear’ received criticism for the kiss between two women while in development
In 2022, as Lightyear was in development, the film’s central same-sex relationship was a point of controversy. A kiss between Hawthorne and her wife was initially cut but put back into the film, a spinoff of Disney’s Toy Story, after Pixar employees claimed Walt Disney Company leadership was censoring “overtly gay affection” in its movies, Variety reported.
The film went on to be banned in the United Arab Emirates and other Muslim countries.
Lightyear star Chris Evans clapped back at the backlash, calling those against the kiss “idiots.”
“Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good,” he told Reuters. “There’s always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs. I think the goal is to pay them no mind, march forward and embrace the growth that makes us human.”
