Snoop Dogg slammed after offensive comments on LGBTQ depictions

Snoop Dogg is facing major criticism after sharing offensive remarks about the portrayal of LGBTQIA+ characters in movies. The 53-year-old rapper angered fans when he said he felt uneasy about taking his grandson to the cinema after being shocked at seeing same-sex representation in Disney's 2022 movie, Lightyear. During an appearance on the It's Giving podcast, the star, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr, accused the film industry of putting same-sex representation "everywhere."

The American musician said: "What you see is what you see, and they're putting it everywhere." Snoop claimed that his grandson was confused upon seeing the character Alisha Hawthorne (played by Uzo Aduba) with her wife and child. He said: "They're like, 'She had a baby with another woman.'" As he added: "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 Peaches N Cream star, who previously sparked outrage after performing at one of Donald Trump's inaugural events, admitted that he didn't know how to answer his grandson.

He recounted: "I'm like, 'Oh sh**, I didn't come in for this sh**. I just came to watch the goddamn movie." However, his grandson then asked him: "They just said, she and she had a baby, they're both women. How does she have a baby?"

Snoop said that the unexpected interaction "threw him for a loop," and claimed that it "f**ked me up." He confessed: "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?'"

The rapper then said that children are naturally curious, but questioned whether LGBTQIA representation should be shown to a young target audience. He explained: "These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They're going to ask questions. I don't have the answer."

Howeever, his concerns were met with a wave of backlash as one fan said: "Snoop being the biggest disappointment ever was not on my bingo card." As a second echoed: "Snoop ended up being a huge hypocritical disappointment."

Another fumed: "Snoop Dogg built his career rapping about gangs, crime, drugs, and violence, proudly embracing the 'gangsta rapper' persona, but now he's afraid by an animated film, just because it shows a same-sex couple together for less than 10 seconds?"

One remarked: "As someone who came of age during the Great Gangsta Rap Panic of the mid 1990s, the irony of Snoop being 'worried' about what his grandkids are watching is too much for me to handle."

"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." fumed a fifth.