A rep for Snoop Dogg is saying that feedback posted on Instagram responding to the backlash he’s obtained after he criticized the LGBTQ illustration in Disney‘s 2022 animated film Lightyear are “pretend.”
Somebody claiming to be the rapper and hip-hop icon lately wrote within the feedback of a Hollywood Unlocked Instagram publish, which featured Ts Madison calling him out, “I used to be simply caught off guard and had no reply for my grandsons.”
“All my homosexual mates [know] what’s up, they been calling me with love. My unhealthy for not understanding the solutions for a 6-yr-old. Educate me methods to study. I’m not excellent,” the particular person claiming to be Snoop added.
Nonetheless, now his rep is saying these feedback weren’t written by the rapper. It’s unclear who’s behind them.
Final week, the “Gin and Juice” rapper shared on the It’s Giving Podcast that he was taken abruptly when he took his grandchildren to see Pixar’s Toy Story spinoff, because it featured a montage of two girls sharing a kiss and elevating a toddler collectively. He stated this led to an entire bunch of questions from his grandchildren about same-sex {couples} that he stated, “I don’t have a solution for.”
“They’re like, ‘She had a child — with one other lady,’” Snoop recalled on the podcast, which appeared to take away his feedback on the matter from the YouTube episode. “Properly, my grandson, in the course of the film is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a child with a girl? She’s a girl!’”
The “Drop It Like It’s Sizzling” artist remembered pondering on the time, “Oh shit, I didn’t are available for this shit. I simply got here to look at the goddamn film.” Snoop stated he tried telling his grandson, “Hey man, simply watch the film,” however that he simply saved firing off questions: “‘They simply stated, she and he or she had a child — they’re each girls. How does she have a child?’”
“It fucked me up,” Snoop added. “I’m like, scared to go to the films now. Y’all throwing me in the course of shit that I don’t have a solution for. It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What a part of the film was this?’ These are children. We have now to indicate that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the reply.”
Lightyear, the origin story of the human House Ranger Buzz Lightyear, included an LGBTQ relationship between Buzz’s greatest buddy and commander, Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba), and her spouse, Kiko, with glimpses of their life as a pair and an onscreen kiss.
Following Snoop’s critique of the animated pic, screenwriter Lauren Gunderson defended her determination to incorporate the queer couple within the movie.
“I used to be one of some writers they’d on it through the years, which is quite common for screenwriting after all. I had little or no to do with the ultimate script,” she wrote on Instagram. “However I used to be proud to see a contented queer couple (even for a couple of seconds) onscreen. I do know they obtained quite a lot of shit for this inclusion, however stuff like this issues as a result of lovely love like this exists.”
Gunderson continued, “It’s *not* fiction. What IS fiction is Zurg and lightspeed house journey and murderous aliens and a speaking robotic cat (lengthy dwell Sox).”
Up to date 7:11 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 31: Added assertion from Snoop’s rep that the feedback posted on Instagram are “pretend.”