Hop hop artist Snoop Dogg went on a tirade about LGBTQ+ characters in movies, saying that he was recently forced to talk to his grandson about queer parents when he took his grandson to see Lightyear.

“What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” he said on the It’s Giving podcast this past Thursday, bringing up Lightyear, the 2022 Pixar film that included a brief scene with a character giving her wife a chaste peck on the cheek. The scene stirred international controversy and got the movie banned in several countries, including Bahrain, Brunei, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, and restricted in Singapore.

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“They’re like, ‘She had a baby, with another woman.’ 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!'”

“Oh s**t, I didn’t come in for this s**t. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,” Snoop continued. But he said his grandson kept on bringing it up in the theater: “They just said, she and she had a baby. They’re both women. How does she have a baby?'”

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Snoop, who is a born-again Christian, said the movie “f**ked me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s**t that I don’t have an answer for.” He did not explain why he could not answer the simple question.

“These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer,” he said.

It might come as a surprise that Snoop Dogg has lived long enough to be offended by others in the media, especially a brief kiss in a children’s movie. In the 1990s, his music was often cited by activists concerned about obscenity in the recording industry. His albums, filled with swear words and explicit sexual imagery, were some of the first to get parental advisory stickers.

In 2017, he took over as DJ at an National Hockey League (NHL) game and blasted unedited versions of his music, including “The Next Episode,” which discusses drug use, sex, and violence, but in a heterosexual context.

The idea that some people are gay is apparently too much for his sensibilities, and he has a history of homophobia. In 2014, he posted an image of two men together to Instagram and wrote, “go suck ya man n get off my line f. A. G.” In 2017, one of his music videos was derided by critics as “openly homophobic” and showing “just how out of touch he now is with modern rap.”

His earlier music also contained anti-gay slurs, like his 1998 hit “Doggz Gonna Get Ya,” where he asks if a “fa***t” is “soft or sissy.” His 2010 song, “Pay Ya Dues,” contains a whole verse about a “fa***t” who wore “real tight jeans,” “swished like a woman” when he walked, and “rode a pink bike.” Snoop said this person “used to run and hide” every time Snoop approached him, but later had a hit song. He accused the man – who he called a “fa***t” again – of “foolin’ the crowd because he got you all clappin’ and tappin’.”

In 2018, he released Bible of Love, his first Christian gospel album, after having identified as a Muslim and as a Rastafarian. He was raised as a Baptist.

Snoop’s homophobic rant came out the same day that the head of the Australian Football League (AFL) defended paying Snoop $2 million to perform at the AFL Grand Final in September.

“The irony is not lost on many AFL fans that just last week they suspended Izak Rankine for using a homophobic slur, yet Snoop Dogg is set to get $2 million to play his misogynistic, homophobic music on our turf,” said Australian Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens) in a statement. “I urge the AFL to have the guts to dump slur-merchant Snoop Dogg and let an Aussie artist rock the stage instead.”

“We cannot vouch for every lyric in every song ever written or performed by any artist who has appeared on our stage — Australian or international,” said AFL CEO Andrew Dillon in a statement. “What I can say is that our pre-match entertainment on AFL Grand Final day will be family-friendly and consistent with the audience at the MCG and those watching the broadcast.”

“It is also important to remember that we engaged Snoop Dogg in 2025 as the person he is today.”

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