Hughes calls on AFL to axe Grand Final entertainer Snoop Dogg over homophobic podcast comments
A top Aussie comedian has called on the AFL to axe Snoop Dogg’s Grand Final performance after the rapper’s attack on gay parents and Crows star Izak Rankine’s ban for a homophobic slur. SEE THE VIDEO.
Comedian Dave Hughes has called on the AFL to axe Snoop Dogg’s Grand Final contract after the American rapper made controversial comments about same-sex couples the same day Izak Rankine was slapped with a four-week ban for making a homophobic slur.
The diehard Carlton fan shared the News Corp article about Snoop’s expletive-laden podcast appearance on Instagram, questioning: “How is Snoop appropriate for the AFL GF?”.
“The brains behind league need to make the call now,” he wrote.
“This is ridiculous.”
The AFL has steadfastly stood by the rapper’s upcoming Grand Final booking, despite Snoop Dogg’s previous criticism of gay people and the use of the same homophobic slur Rankine used in his lyrics.
“Yeah they have just wasted millions of dollars that could have gone to grassroots but so be it,” Hughes said.
“It’s too weird to let him play now.”
Hughes’ comments came after Snoop Dogg criticised the depiction of same-sex parents in children’s movies in an expletive-laden new podcast in which he said “motherf****r” and “f***” more than a dozen times while puffing on a joint.
In the hour-long episode, the American rapper spoke about his obsession with pimps, condoned cheating “if you don’t get caught”, and bemoaned the emasculated portrayals of men in the media, arguing “we can’t reproduce” without “strong men”.
The rap superstar’s comments came the same day Crows star Izak Rankine copped a four-week ban for using the homophobic slur “f****t” against a Collingwood opponent in a move that is likely to rule him out of a Grand Final appearance.
The AFL has come under fire for the double standard of doling out hefty penalties to players while paying millions to book the Californian rapper – who has used the same language in his songs – to perform at the Grand Final.
Speaking on the latest episode of the ‘It’s Giving’ Podcast in the United States, Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jr, spoke about “simps”, referencing men who are overly attentive or submissive to their partners.
“If you ask me now they’re really taking the masculinity out of me,” he said.
“I look at the commercials, I look at everything that comes on TV, movies, TV shows, and it’s always including some form of having a black man not as strong as he could be.”
He said he was “cool” with showing “different sides and different elements of the black man” but pointing to himself, he insisted “this is always the lead”.
“Because without this, we can’t reproduce,” he said.
Snoop Dogg said he had 10 grandchildren “because this is the man”, arguing strong and upfront men were important for “reproduction”.
“Hello, we can’t continue to bring tribes of generations into this world when this ain’t in the front,” he said, again pointing to himself.
Throughout the interview, he smoked what appeared to be marijuana and told the host “they gonna know you’ve been around the Dogg” when she joked her hair would smell of it.
In response to the podcast host Sarah Fontenot’s claim that a single mother “epidemic” was creating masculine women and feminine men, Snoop Dogg recounted seeing the new Toy Story spin-off movie Lightyear in which two women have a baby together.
“See that goes back to the presentation I spoke to you earlier, what you see is what you see, they putting it everywhere,” he said, seemingly referencing same-sex relationships.
He recounted being asked by his grandson: “Papa Snoop, how’d she have a baby with a woman?”
“I’m like oh s***, I didn’t come in for this s***, I just came to watch the goddamn movie,” he said.
“So that’s like this, f*** me. I’m scared to go to the movies now, like y’all throwing me in the middle of s*** 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 that we have to show that at this age, like that?
“They’re going to ask questions, yeah. They’re going to ask, I don’t have the answer.”
AFL boss Andrew Dillon has pushed back against the accusations of hypocrisy over its booking of Snoop Dogg while banning players, promising the grand final entertainment would be “family friendly”.
“We cannot vouch for every lyric, in every song, ever written or performed by any artist who has or will appear on our stage, Australian or international,” he said.
Representatives for the rapper did not respond to requests for comment.
