'My bad': Snoop Dogg addresses Lightyear same sex comments
Snoop Dogg has admitted he is “not perfect” after facing a backlash over his criticism of a same-sex couple in Lightyear.
The 52-year-old rapper was slammed last week after he claimed he was now “scared” to take his grandchildren to the cinema after being caught off-guard by the fact astronaut Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) had a child with her wife in the 2022 Disney Pixar film, but he’s now spoken out and insisted he is willing to “learn” from his mistakes.
He commented beneath a video from Hollywood Unlocked about his remarks: “I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.“All my gay friends (know) what’s up. They been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-year-old. Teach me how to learn. I’m not perfect.(sic)“
Snoop’s comments came under a video from trans entertainer TS Madison, who questioned why Snoop wasn’t happy with the scene in Lightyear but was happy to depict “women dancing and kissing other women, dancing naked” in his music videos and argued his remarks were “rooted in a little bit of homophobia.”
The Drop It Like It’s Hot hitmaker’s comments came when he questioned why same-sex relationships needed to be featured in movies aimed towards children.
He said on the It’s Giving podcast: “(The kids) are 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!’”
Snoop added: “Oh shit, I didn’t come in for this shit. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.
“They just said, ‘She and she had a baby – they’re both women. How does she have a baby?’
“It f***** me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies.
“Y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for… it threw me for a loop.”
Screenwriter Lauren Gunderson, who received an additional screenplay material credit on the movie, claimed she had came up with the idea for Alisha to have a wife and was proud the relationship remained in the finished film.
“Small line, big deal. I was elated that they kept it. I’m proud of it. To infinity. Love is love,” she wrote on Threads.
“I know they got a lot of shit for this inclusion, but stuff like this matters because beautiful love like this exists. It’s *not* fiction. What IS fiction is Zurg and lightspeed space travel and murderous aliens and a talking robot cat (long live Sox).(sic)“
