“His bad.”
Snoop Dogg addressed the backlash following his controversial comments about a same-sex couple in the Pixar movie Lightyear. The 53-year-old rapper emphasized his support for the LGBTQ+ community while responding to an August 27 Hollywood Unlocked Instagram clip in which T.S. Madison criticized his remarks.
Snoop Dogg at the 2025 BET Awards, June 9
“I was just caught off guard and didn’t have an answer for my grandsons,” wrote Snoop, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.
“All my gay friends know what’s up—they’ve been calling me with love,” he continued. “My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-year-old.”
“Teach me how to learn,” Snoop added. “I’m not perfect.”
During the August 20 episode of Dr. Sarah Fontenot’s It’s Giving podcast, Snoop explained that he took his grandson to see Lightyear and was surprised to learn the movie features a lesbian couple.
“My grandson, in the middle of the movie, is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How does she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” Snoop recalled.
The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” singer admitted that he “didn’t come in for this sh‑t” and now feels “scared to go to the movies.”
“Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh‑t that I don’t have an answer for,” he told the podcast host. “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.’”
Snoop’s comments sparked swift backlash from fans, who accused him of being ignorant and homophobic.
Even Lightyear writer Lauren Gunderson weighed in, defending the film’s lesbian couple in a Threads post last week.
Lauren Gunderson at the press night of I and You at Hampstead Theatre in London, October 2018. Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for Coach
“As we wrote early versions of what became Lightyear, a key character needed a partner, and it was so natural to write ‘she’ instead of ‘he,’” Gunderson said. “As small as that detail is in the film, I knew the representational effect it could have. Small line, big deal. I was elated that they kept it.”
