Snoop Dogg apology for LGBTQ+ movie scene comments called fake by rep

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An apology apparently shared online by rapper Snoop Dogg last week following his reaction to a lesbian couple featured in a Disney Pixar film is being labelled as fake despite originating from his official Instagram account.

A representative for the 53-year-old hip hop star told Entertainment Weekly that the comment, posted Aug. 26 in response to a Hollywood Unlocked‘s video on Instagram of trans entertainer T.S. Madison’s reaction, was not written by him nor his social media staff.

The rep declined to comment further despite the response being linked to his official account, which has more than 88.6 million followers.

“I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons,” the post reads. “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.”

Snoop Dogg, real name Calvin Broadus, was a guest of the It’s Giving podcast recently and shared a story about taking his grandson to see Pixar’s 2022 feature film Lightyear.

In the animated movie, two women have a child together.

“They’re 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 thought, “Oh, s—, I didn’t come in for this s—. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,” he recalled.

But his curious grandson persisted with the question.

“They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?”

The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper said the conversation “f—ed me up. I’m, like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s— that I don’t have an answer for. It threw me for a loop.”

Madison called out the rapper for why he took issue with the scene while releasing music videos showing “women dancing and kissing other women, dancing naked,” adding his comments were “rooted in a little bit of homophobia.”

But many commenters in the Hollywood Unlocked post came to the hip hop legend’s defence.

“There’s a time and place for everything,” one person wrote. “That’s not a conversation he should be having while taking his grand kids to see a KIDS movie.”

Another person explained that the issue boils down to how the child is parented.

“Realistically, you cannot stop kids from seeing EVERYTHING but because they are kids you should take control over what you can monitor,” they wrote.

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