What has Snoop Dogg said about LGBTQ+ people?
What else has Snoop Dogg said about LGBTQ+ people? (Getty)
What else has Snoop Dogg said about LGBTQ+ people? (Getty)
Snoop Dogg is in the news again for making homophobic remarks, which won’t come as a surprise to many people.
The singer faced criticism after he moaned about a same-sex kiss in the animated film Lightyear, and claimed LGBTQ+ representation was “everywhere.”
Speaking on the It’s Giving podcast on Thursday (21 August), the rapper said he was watching the Toy Story spin-off with his grandson who turned to him during the kissing scene and asked: “Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman.”
“Aw s**t, I didn’t come for this s**t, I came here to watch the god-damn movie,” Snoop said. “Y’all throwing me in the middle of this s**t that I don’t have an answer for… it threw me for a loop.”
He said the situation had made him scared to go to the cinema or watch a movie because he feared having to acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people and their relationships. He then complained about the kiss again.
“These kids… [do] we have to show that at that age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer,” he said.
The interview came just hours after Andrew Dillon, the chief executive of the Australian Football League, defended paying the star a reported $2 million (close to £1.5 million) to perform at the grand final last September, despite his history of making anti-LGBTQ+ comments.
Snoop Dogg’s lyrics have contained homophobic slurs
Several of the rapper’s songs contain homophobic lyrics, including 1998’s Doggz Gonna Get Ya, which includes a line featuring a slur: “I can’t believe that Dogg would dis me, that f****t, that punk he soft or sissy,” he sings.
The rapper used the same slur in an Instagram post when responding to a fan in 2014, writing: “U n ya boyfriend since u like jumpn on my page disrespectn b**ch boy. Go suck ya man n get off my line f.A.G.”
Three years later he was criticised for the video for Moment I Feared, in which the he interviews a fictional crossdressing rapper who says the first thing they think of when they wake up is: “Cock. My annoying neighbours, they have this rooster.”
Critics suggested the fictional rapper was a caricature of Young Thug, who, while not gay, is known for occasionally wearing women’s clothes. A line in the song, in which Snoop says: “This sucker s**t is running rampant, it’s the moment I fear,” has been interpreted as a “fear” of queer people in hip hop.
During his spot on the It’s Giving podcast, Snoop Dogg also spoke about masculinity in pop culture, saying: “If you ask me, they’re really taking the masculinity out of me. I look at the commercials, I look at everything that comes on TV, movies, TV shows, and it’s always including some form of having a Black man not as strong as he could be.”
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