Snoop Dogg takes aim at same-sex parents in latest homophobic comments
The AFL has a crisis on its hands in the wake of its homophobia scandal after Snoop Dogg made strong comments attacking same-sex parents.
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The AFL is facing an ever growing PR crisis after its choice for grand final entertainment, Snoop Dogg, criticised the depiction of same-sex parents in children’s movies.
The US rapper made the comments on an hour-long appearance on the It’s Giving podcast
in which he swore repeatedly, puffed on a joint and had a wide-ranging discussion about masculinity.
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Code Sports reports Snoop Dogg spoke about pimps, condoned cheating “if you don’t get caught”, and took aim at the emasculated portrayals of men in the media, arguing “we can’t reproduce” without “strong men”.
The AFL has been accused of being hypocritical for giving Adelaide Crows player Izak Rankine a four-match suspension for using the homophobic slur “f****t” towards a Collingwood opponent, while Snoop Dogg uses the same language in his songs.
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In his song Doggz Gonna Get Ya, his lyrics include the slur: “I can’t believe that Dogg would dis me, that f****t that punk he soft or sissy,” Snoop says in his 1998 hit.
The 53-year-old, who was born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr, has written and performed songs over the years that revolve around violence, homophobia, misogyny and drug use, among others.
On top of his song lyrics, Snoop Dogg also had his visa cancelled shortly before he was due to appear in Australia back in 2007 in the wake of a drug and firearm conviction.
The rapper, best known for his hit Drop It Like It’s Hot, will perform the pre-game entertainment at the MCG at the AFL Grand Final on Saturday September 27, after Katy Perry performed last year.
Speaking on the It’s Giving podcast, Snoop Dogg recalled a conversation with his grandson when they saw the Toy Story spin-off movie Lightyear, in which two women have a baby together.
Read Snoop Dogg’s comments and watch the video in the Code Sports report here.
He said he was 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.”
News.com.au has contacted the AFL for comment about Snoop Dogg’s latest comments.
Snoop Dogg also spoke about “simps”, a term referring to men who are attentive and 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 had 10 grandchildren “because this is the man”, adding: “Hello, we can’t continue to bring tribes of generations into this world when this ain’t in the front.”
AFL CEO Andrew Dillon said Snoop Dogg’s grand final entertainment will be “family friendly”.
“In light of this (Rankine) issue, I also want to address commentary in the last couple of days around our grand final entertainment,” Dillon said on Thursday.
“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.
“But what I can say is our pre-match entertainment on grand final day will be family-friendly and consistent with the audience at the MCG and those watching the broadcast.”
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