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A representative for rapper Snoop Dogg called a comment addressing backlash over the rapper’s criticism of LGBTQ characters in children’s films “fake.”
The comment appeared on a “Hollywood Unlocked” Instagram post, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The outlet noted that the post seemed to come from Snoop’s official account.
“I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons. 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 comment read, according to the report.
Both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter reported that a representative for Snoop said the comment was fake and did not come from anyone on the rapper’s team.
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Snoop Dogg performs on stage during the 2025 BET Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025. (Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images)
“It is a fake,” a source close to the rapper told Deadline.
The strange development comes after Lauren Gunderson, a writer who worked on Pixar’s “Lightyear,” defended the inclusion of a same-sex couple with a child and criticized the rapper’s remarks, telling one commenter, “He sucks.”
“I created the ‘Lightyear’ lesbians,” Gunderson wrote on Threads. “In 2018, I was a writer at Pixar—such a cool place, grateful to work there, learned a ton from kind and impressive creatives. 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.’ 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. I’m proud of it. To infinity.”
Snoop explained during an August appearance on Sarah Fontenot’s “It’s Giving” podcast that he took his grandson to see “Lightyear” and was caught off guard.
“Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman?” he said. “They just said she and she had a baby. They both women. How does she have a baby? S—. The movie ain’t over with… I’m scared to go to the movies. Like y’all throwing me in the middle of s— that I don’t have an answer for.”
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“These are kids that we have to show that at this age like, they’re going to ask questions. They are going to ask. I don’t have an answer,” Snoop said. “And I was just there to go to sleep and watch the movie. That s— woke me up.”
The rapper was criticized online by progressives, with some calling the remarks homophobic.
The hosts of “The Breakfast Club” defended Snoop’s remarks last month.
“I wouldn’t have explained right then and there in the movie,” comedian Jess Hilarious said. “But if my kid had a question, I would tell him, ‘Well, we know two women can’t make a baby. Two men can’t make a baby. But these days things are different.’”
Co-host DJ Envy stressed that cartoons should not force parents into premature conversations about sex or relationships.
“I’m with Snoop. I don’t want to have to explain any of this in a cartoon or a movie if I’m taking my child,” Envy said.
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Snoop Dogg performs onstage during the BET Awards on June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles. Families watch a movie in a theater. (Getty Images/iStock)
Fox News Digital reached out to Snoop’s representatives for further comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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Fox News’ Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
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