A representative for Snoop Dogg said that comments posted on Instagram responding to the backlash the rapper has received after criticizing the LGBTQ representation in Disney’s 2022 movie Lightyear are “fake.” Someone claiming to be the rapper recently wrote comments on an Instagram post from Hollywood Unlocked, which included Ts Madison calling him out. “All my gay friends [know] what’s up, they been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-yr-old. Teach me how to learn. I’m not perfect,” the person claiming to be Snoop said.
However, those comments were allegedly not made by the real Snoop Dogg, his rep said. It is unclear who made those comments.
Last week, the iconic rapper shared on the It’s Giving Podcast that he was taken by surprise when he took his grandchildren to see Lightyear. When the film featured a montage of two women sharing a kiss and raising a child together, he said it led to loads of questions from his grandchildren that he shared, “I don’t have an answer for.”
“They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman,'” Snoop recalled on the podcast, which appeared to remove his comments on the matter from the YouTube episode. “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!'”
The rapper remembered thinking, “Oh shit, I didn’t come in for this shit. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.” Snoop said he tried telling his grandson, “Hey man, just watch the movie,” but that he continued with questions: “They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?'”
“It f*cked me up,” Snoop added. “I’m like, scared to go to the movies now. Y’all throwing me in the middle of shit 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. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
The origin story for the beloved Toy Story character, Buzz Lightyear, included an LGBTQ relationship between Buzz’s best friend and commander, Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba), and her wife, Kiko, with flashes of their life together and an onscreen kiss.
Following Snoop’s comments, screenwriter Lauren Gunderson defended the decision to include the couple in the film. “I was one of a few writers they had on it over the years, which is very common for screenwriting of course. I had very little to do with the final script,” she wrote on Instagram. “But I was proud to see a happy queer couple (even for a few seconds) onscreen. I know they got a lot of shit for this inclusion, but stuff like this matters because beautiful love like this exists.” Gunderson continued, “It’s *not* fiction. What IS fiction is Zurg and lightspeed space travel and murderous aliens and a talking robot cat (long live Sox).”
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