Snoop Dogg has questioned the rise in LGBTQ+ illustration in trendy animated youngsters’s motion pictures, asking, “We’ve got to point out that at this age?”
The rapper defined his perspective on the newest episode of the “It’s Giving” podcast hosted by Sarah Fontenot. He recalled an expertise he had taking his grandson to see Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story” spinoff “Lightyear” in 2022 and the questions that his younger member of the family requested him in regards to the movie’s featured lesbian relationship.
“What you see is what you see, and so they’re placing it in all places,” Snoop remarked, earlier than revealing that his grandson was confused when “Lightyear” revealed that one in every of its characters had two moms. “They’re like, ‘She had a child — with a lady.’ Effectively, my grandson, in the course of the film, [was] like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a child with a lady? She a lady!’”
“‘Oh sh-t. I didn’t are available for this sh-t. I simply got here to observe the goddamn film,’” Snoop remembered pondering, including that his grandson continued to demand a solution to his query. “‘They only stated she and she or he had a child. They each girls. How does she have a child?’”
In “Lightyear,” Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), the most effective pal and co-officer to Chris Evans’ Buzz Lightyear, finally ends up stranded on an alien planet with Buzz and different members of their crew. In a subsequent montage, Alisha is proven marrying and elevating a baby with one other lady, her companion Kiko.
Based on Snoop Dogg, his grandson’s line of questioning throughout “Lightyear” has made him reluctant to go to different youngsters’s motion pictures along with his household.
“It’s like, F—ok me! I’m scared to go to the flicks, man. Y’all throwing me in the course of sh-t that I don’t have a solution for!” the rapper stated. “It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What a part of the film was this?’ These are children. We’ve got to point out that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the reply.”
“Lightyear” obtained intense pushback for that includes a same-sex kiss between Aduba’s Alisha and her companion Kiko. It was banned in a number of Muslim nations, together with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and solely viewers 16 years or older had been allowed to see it in Singapore. The kiss itself was reportedly nearly reduce from the movie previous to its launch.
Within the days since his “It’s Giving” look was posted, Snoop has obtained widespread criticism for his feedback, which have been deemed insensitive and homophobic by many on-line.
In 2013, the rapper informed The Huffington Submit that he supported same-sex marriage, however his current feedback, notably, don’t mark the primary time that he has come below fireplace for homophobic language. In 2014, he additionally captioned an Instagram publish with an anti-gay slur and he known as Caitlyn Jenner a “science challenge” that very same yr.
You’ll be able to hearken to the complete “It’s Giving” episode right here.
