Rapper Snoop Dogg has triggered woke far-leftists after criticizing LGBTQ+ representation in children's films during a recent episode of Dr. Sarah Fontenot’s 'It’s Giving' podcast, expressing discomfort with a same-sex couple depicted in the 2022 Disney-Pixar film Lightyear.
The Hip Hop star recounted taking his grandson to see the movie, where the character Alisha Hawthorne, played by Uzo Aduba, is shown marrying and raising a child with her partner Kiko, a moment that led to his grandson asking persistent questions about how two women could have a baby, leaving Snoop feeling unprepared and stating he is now "scared to go to the movies."
During the Lightyear screening, Snoop Dogg’s grandson asked, "Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!" and later, "They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?"
Snoop recalled thinking, "Oh shit, I didn’t come in for this shit. I just came to watch the goddamn movie," and expressed that the experience "threw me for a loop."
"Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman.' Oh shit, I didn’t come in for this shit. I just came to watch the goddamn movie. Hey man, watch the movie. They just said she and she had a baby. They both women. How does she have a baby? Shit. The movie ain’t over with… I’m scared to go to the movies. Like y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for," Snoop said.
Lightyear features a montage showing Alisha Hawthorne and her partner Kiko sharing a kiss, marrying, and raising a child together, which was a significant moment as it marked Disney’s first same-sex couple in an animated film. The scene was reportedly almost cut from the film and was banned in several Muslim-majority countries. The film was also criticized by conservatives in the United States.
"It threw me for a loop. I’m like what part of the movie was this? These are kids that we have to show that at this age like, they’re going to ask questions. They are going to ask. I don’t have an answer," Snoop said. "And I was just there to go to sleep and watch the movie. That shit woke me up."
Beyond the Lightyear remarks, Snoop Dogg also expressed concern that "masculinity is being taken out of men" and criticized the portrayal of Black men in media, saying, "We showing different sides and different elements of the Black man, which is cool, but when you pushing this as the front and forgetting that this is always the lead, because without this (points to himself), we can’t reproduce" He also reiterated his view that "they’re putting it everywhere."
Snoop Dogg's comments have drawn significant backlash online from far-left critics who labeled them homophobic and insensitive. Some users questioned his ability to discuss the topic given his age and past controversies.
The backlash has led to calls for him to be dropped from his upcoming performance at the Australian Football League(AFL) Grand Final pre-show. The AFL's chief executive reportedly defended the rapper's scheduled appearance before his latest remarks.
Lightyear was a spinoff of Pixar's popular "Toy Story" film series, which revolved around the friendship between a toy space ranger named Buzz Lightyear and a toy cowboy named Woody. The premise of the new film was about the space-age science-fiction protagonist that the Buzz Lightyear toy was theoretically based on in the Toy Story universe.
Actor Chris Evans, who voices Buzz Lightyear in the movie, hit back at critics of the film at the time.
"The real truth is those people are idiots," Evans said during a June 2022 interview with Reuters Television. "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."
