Snoop Dogg isn’t quite ready to expose his grandchildren to progressive views on gender roles when he takes the kids to the movie theater.
The West Coast hip hop superstar — known for controversy over explicit lyrics, walking women down the red carpet on leashes and coming under fire for disrespecting Gayle King on social media — admits he had some issues after seeing LGBTQ representation in films for kids.
Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., said he was scared to bring his grandkids to the cinema after watching 2022’s “Lightyear,” featuring the voices of Chris Evans, KeKe Palmer and three-time Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba.
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Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ (2022) depicted a same-sex relationship.
During the latest episode of the “It’s Giving” podcast, the 53-year-old revealed he didn’t like the fact that the animated NAACP Image Award-winning movie featured a female same-sex couple having a child together.
“They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman,’” he shared. “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 was caught off guard by the question concerning Pixar‘s “Toy Story” spinoff that shows a montage in which two mothers are seen raising their child.
“Oh s—, I didn’t come in for this s—. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,’” he recalled thinking.
“It f—ed me up,” the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper added. “I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh– that 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.”
“And I was just there to go to sleep and watch the movie,” he joked before adding: “That s— woke me up.”
Directed by Angus MacLane, “Lightyear” was subsequently banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates after Pixar’s parent company Disney declined to cut the couple’s relationship and the kiss from the film.
Blowback for his “Lightyear” comments was swift on social media.
“I’m so tired.. Genuinely so tired of the rampant homophobia nowadays,” one Twitter user wrote in response.
Another slammed the rapper as the “biggest sellout in Hip-Hop,” referencing his most recent controversy for performing at the Crypto Ball during Donald Trump’s inauguration weekend festivities in Washington D.C. He previously lambasted artists who agreed to perform at Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.
“How is answering his grandson’s question even close to the horrors of answering how a man has a baby with a woman?????,” one person tweeted.
Ironically, Snoop’s 2004 role on Showtime’s groundbreaking lesbian drama series, “The L Word” was the basis of a think piece – sub headlined: “What rhymes with hypocrite?” published Monday by blogger Andrew J. Stillman.
“The disconnect is jarring, but not uncommon,” he said. “It’s a well-worn pattern: artists, athletes, and public figures enjoy the visibility and cultural cache of queer proximity-until the moment it becomes ‘too much,’ or too close to their personal lives.”
