Snoop had a cameo on “The L Word.”

Snoop Dogg has lengthy cultivated the picture of hip-hop’s mellow, good-vibes uncle, from cooking exhibits with Martha Stewart to viral Olympic commentary. But that persona took a success this week when he criticized Pixar’s 2022 animated movie Lightyear for together with a quick scene of a lesbian couple, remarks followers rapidly described as “weird” and “homophobic.”

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During a podcast look, Snoop Dogg made remarks about LGBTQ+ illustration, framing them as discomfort with explaining LGBTQ+ illustration to kids.

Snoop Dogg takes difficulty with homosexual illustration in Lightyear

While talking on the It’s Giving podcast, Snoop recalled taking his grandson to see Pixar’s Lightyear, the Toy Story franchise spinoff. The movie included a really transient second the place a feminine astronaut is proven together with her spouse and their youngster. The cameo lasted seconds, however Snoop claimed that it unsettled him.

He defined that his grandson requested how two ladies may have a baby collectively. Instead of answering, Snoop described feeling overwhelmed. “Aw sh*t, I didn’t come here for this sh*t, I just came here to watch the goddamn movie,” he stated. “So that’s like f*ck me, I’m scared to go to the movies now, y’all throwing me in the middle of this sh*t that I don’t have an answer for … it threw me for a loop.”

He then added, “These are kids … [do] we have to show that at that age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”

Although Snoop Dogg framed the second as confusion, his remarks implied discomfort with homosexual relationships being seen in kids’s media. Critics rapidly identified that heterosexual {couples} kiss and begin households on-screen continually. Yet, when the illustration entails LGBTQ+ characters, it out of the blue turns into “too much” for youths.

Unsurprisingly, the rapper’s feedback have been met with backlash throughout social media. Many accused him of reinforcing outdated double requirements. One person wrote, “I think it’s funny when homophobic people are like LITERALLY homophobic like dead*ss scared of gay people.”

Another remark criticized his priorities. “The serial adulterer whose been cheating on his wife throughout their whole marriage & had a child outside of their marriage is pearl clutching at seeing a lesbian couple in a CARTOON,” they tweeted.

Others expressed disbelief at Snoop’s concern of addressing easy questions. “How is answering his grandson’s question even close to the horrors of answering how a man has a baby with a woman?????” one individual requested.

“Shut up you was on the L word,” identified @mayowasworld bluntly.

Because of those feedback, folks on-line at the moment are beginning to rethink their opinions of Snoop Dogg. As somebody identified on X, nonetheless, it seems that the rapper is merely going again to sharing his actual opinions.

@Demigloom defined, “Snoop Dogg was homophobic in the 90s and then became pro-Gay when Obama legalized gay marriage to avoid backlash, and now it’s socially acceptable to hate gay people again so he just went back to how he always was. Biggest sellout in Hip-Hop.”

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