How did Snoop Dogg respond to backlash over his ‘Lightyear’ comments?

Snoop Dogg responds to the backlash he has received after his recent comments about the LGBTQ community. The rapper addressed the comment he made about the Disney Pixar movie Lightyear on August 27.

In the comment section of Hollywood Unlocked's Instagram post, Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., wrote,

“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," he further added, "my bad for not knowing the answers for a 6 yr old 😳 teach me how to learn I’m not perfect."

Snoop Dogg's "Lightyear" controversy

His clarification came days after he made the initial comments. On an episode of Dr. Sarah Fontenot’s It’s Giving podcast, on which he appeared on August 20, he recalled how he took his grandson to see the 2022 film and, while watching, discovered that one of the female characters was in a same-sex marriage and had children with her.

Upon seeing this, his curious grandson asked him

"Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,"

To which he replied without much thought,

“I didn’t come here for this s-t, I just came to watch the goddamn movie.”

He further added, "So it’s like, f—k me, I’m scared to go to the movies now. Like, y’all throwing me in the middle of s—t that I don’t have an answer for. It threw me for a loop. We have to show that at this age? Like, they’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”

The conversation led to backlash from the LGBTQ community, with people potentially canceling the Drop It Like It’s Hot rapper.

All of this comes weeks ahead of his return to The Voice for Season 28 to serve as a coach. According to an insider source, the controversy has left NBC, the show's network, furious.

According to the source, who told The Sun, "This is the exact kind of conversation [the execs at NBC] didn’t want to be sucked into. Production had to remind him that he works for an inclusive, apolitical, family-friendly show, and comments like this only go on to create a divisive environment."

Lightyear writer Lauren Gunderson also came out to address the controversy in a Threads post on August 27.

“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.”

It is unclear if this would have any repercussions for Snoop Dogg and his new comeback to The Voice.

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