Snoop Dogg appeared on the It’s Giving podcast a couple weeks ago, and what it was giving was homophobia. In a portion of the interview — which has since been deleted from the episode on YouTube — Snoop recounted taking his six-year-old grandson to see Lightyear when it came out in 2022. The problem? Snoop wasn’t able to come up with any adequate response whatsoever to his grandson’s questions about two female characters who were married with a baby, and even shared a kiss for a couple seconds in a montage sequence. Apparently this was his grandson’s first exposure to a gay couple, and Snoop totally failed to meet the moment. Instead, he basically punted and then waited three years to declare how he’s “scared” to go to the movies now and “why is this in kids’ films anyway?!” Cut to Hollywood Unlocked posting a TMZ clip on Instagram with Ts Madison sharing her thoughts on the matter, to which Snoop himself responded in the comments. Only now his rep is saying it’s fake, despite the fact the comment links back to Snoop’s official Insta. Hmm.
A rep for Snoop Dogg is saying that comments posted on Instagram responding to the backlash he’s received after he criticized the LGBTQ representation in Disney’s 2022 animated movie Lightyear are “fake.”
Someone claiming to be the rapper and hip-hop icon recently wrote in the comments of a Hollywood Unlocked Instagram post, which featured Ts Madison calling him out, “I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons.”
“All my gay friends [know] what’s up, they been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-yr-old. Teach me how to learn. I’m not perfect,” the person claiming to be Snoop added.
However now his rep is saying those comments were not written by the rapper. It’s unclear who is behind them.
Last week, the “Gin and Juice” rapper shared on the It’s Giving Podcast that he was taken by surprise when he took his grandchildren to see Pixar’s Toy Story spinoff, as it featured a montage of two women sharing a kiss and raising a child together. He said this led to a whole bunch of questions from his grandchildren about same-sex couples that he said, “I don’t have an answer for.”
“They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman,’” Snoop recalled on the podcast, which appeared to remove his comments on the matter from the YouTube episode. “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!’”
The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” artist remembered thinking at the time, “Oh sh-t, I didn’t come in for this sh-t. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.” Snoop said he tried telling his grandson, “Hey man, just watch the movie,” but that he just kept firing off questions: “‘They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?’”
“It f–ked me up,” Snoop added. “I’m like, scared to go to the movies now. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh-t I don’t have an answer for. It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?’ These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
First of all, if you’re not in the mood to have your faith in humanity crushed, I caution you against looking at the comments altogether on the Hollywood Unlocked post. Putting aside the confusion of Snoop’s rep denying the response is from him (even though it’s from his official account), I wouldn’t want to own those weak sauce words, either. “I was just caught off guard” and “my bad for not knowing the answers” paint a totally different picture than what Snoop characterizes on the podcast. I could empathize with someone who was genuinely “thrown for a loop” and not ready with a six-year-old-level explanation for gay couples (even though it’s pretty straightforward, yes that’s an LGBTQ-ally pun). Likewise, I wouldn’t ever want to discourage someone with good intentions from asking how to do better. But again, going back to the original It’s Giving podcast, Snoop describes the incident like the film committed a crime against him (for prompting a conversation with his grandkid?) and doubles down on the bigoted talking point of “why are we showing this to kids?” Because it’s the real, beautiful world we live in, that’s why.
photos credit: Avalon.red and via YouTube/It’s Giving Podcast
Snoop is seriously problematic but that comment does not sound like him. Heart emoji? My bad? Someone from a younger generation wrote that trying to sound hip but old.
Hip and old, lol, just like Snoop. He still uses the 80’s idioms.
As a lot of people have pointed out Snoop should be more concerned with how he’s going to explain to his grandson why he spoke about women the way he did in his songs.
Very good point!
But that’s just it! He won’t discuss his past misogyny with his family and certainly would never say he was wrong
Disappointing.
If Snoop was truly befuddled he could have just Googled how to talk to kids about same sex couples. The world is full of resources. It shouldn’t be on his gay friends to educate him.
There’s a quote going around that is supposed to be from marlin wayans, but he said he didn’t say it, but the quote basically says that there are disney characters that do actually bad things that hurt people, including poisoning and luring them into deadly booby traps, and why don’t any of these people ever complain about how they’re going to explain those things to their innocent children? Kids don’t care about people’s parents kissing! I totally don’t even believe that his grandson or whatever said anything to him about it
Denying an apology text is not a good look, Snoop.