Retired AFL star Brendan Fevola is adamant controversial rapper Snoop Dogg will not headline the AFL’s Grand Final pre-game show, and has claimed an Aussie act will replace him as the AFL continues its crusade against homophobia.

Fans had been divided over Snoop’s billing since the decision was made public on August 11, and the debate has only roared on after Adelaide forward Izak Rankine was suspended for an in-game homophobic slur last week.

Some have said the rapper’s arguably dated and disrespectful lyrics contravene the AFL’s stance on gender equality and same sex relationships.

On Monday morning, Fevola told The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick that he believed the AFL had designs on dumping the 53-year-old headliner.

“On Snoop Dogg, I might have some goss about that. They’re going to axe him,” Fevola told listeners.

“Because of this debacle?” co-host Fifi Box asked.

“Yep. Because of his lyrics in his song and he talked about (struggling to discuss) gay parents over the weekend. I think he will get the a***, and they are going to go for an Aussie artist to play at the MCG,” Fevola responded.

“That will happen, take that to the bank. I reckon he’s gonna get the (a***), which he should.”

In Snoop’s 1998 hit Doggz Gonna Get Ya, he uses the same slur reportedly uttered by Izak Rankine against Collingwood that resulted in a four-match ban.

The verse reads: “I can’t believe that Dogg would dis me, that f****t that punk he soft or sissy”.

While time hasn’t been kind to the rapper’s lyrics, he found himself in hot water more recently when discussing same sex marriage depicted in children’s films, as referenced by Fevola.

Appearing on the It’s Giving Podcast, Snoop suggested he’d been taken off guard when watching the Toy Story spin-off Lightyear, asked by his grandson how a pair of women could raise a child together.

“Papa Snoop, how’d she have a baby with a woman?” the rapper recalled his grandson asking.

“I’m like oh s***, I didn’t come in for this s***, I just came to watch the goddamn movie.

“So that’s like this, f*** me. I’m scared to go to the movies now, like y’all throwing me in the middle of s*** that I don’t have an answer for.”

“It threw me for a loop, I’m like, what part of the movie was this, these are kids that we have to show that at this age, like that?

“They’re going to ask questions, yeah. They’re going to ask, I don’t have the answer.”

AFL CEO Andrew Dillon addressed growing concerns over the rapper’s upcoming performance on Friday last week and declared it would be “family friendly”.

“In light of this (Rankine) issue, I also want to address commentary in the last couple of days around our grand final entertainment,” Dillon said.

“We cannot vouch for every lyric in every song ever written or performed by any artist who has or will appear on our stage, Australian or international.

“But what I can say is our pre-match entertainment on grand final day will be family-friendly and consistent with the audience at the MCG and those watching the broadcast.”

Snoop Dogg will follow the 2024 billing of fellow American star Katy Perry, who the rapper collaborated with on the 2010 hit California Gurls.