Part of what the rapper said a week after his controversial words on the "It's Giving" podcast was, "Teach me how to lear...
Part of what the rapper said a week after his controversial words on the "It's Giving" podcast was, "Teach me how to learn I'm not perfect."
Snoop Dogg is apologizing for what he said after getting negative feedback about how LGBTQ+ people are portrayed in children's movies.
On the Aug. 20 episode of the It's Giving show, the 53-year-old rapper was questioned when he said he is "scared to go to the movies," especially kids' movies, because of how LGBTQ+ people are portrayed.
"We have to show that at this age?" he asked on the podcast, among other things. and seemed to be talking about LGBTQ+ figures and stories when they said, "They're putting it everywhere."
Snoop's words came after he talked about getting angry when his 6-year-old grandson asked him about a family with two mothers while they were watching Buzz Lightyear. In the 2022 Toy Story spinoff, a character says she has a wife in one scene, and the pair is briefly shown kissing and then welcoming their son into the world.
That same day, Aug. 27, a week after his controversial words were first made public, Snoop explained them, saying that the Lightyear moment "just caught him off guard."
In response to what he said on the show, the grandfather of seven said something in a comment on an Instagram post by Hollywood Unlocked.
"I was shocked and didn't know what to tell my grandchildren," Snoop Dogg wrote. He also said, "All my gay friends know what's going on and have been calling me with love 💗."
"I'm sorry I didn't know the answers for a 6-year-old," he said. "Teach me how to learn that I'm not perfect."
On the It's Giving show, Snoop said that his grandson asked him, "Papa Snoop? ", while they were watching Lightyear. How did she have a baby with a woman? She's a woman!" As he told his grandson to stay put, he thought to himself, "I didn't come here for this s---." "I only came to see the damn movie."
"I'm afraid to go to the movies now," Snoop said. I don't know what to say about being thrown into s--- by you people.
"It caught me off guard," he said. "I thought, 'What part of the movie was that?'" These are kids. At this age, we have to prove that? They're likely to question you. "I don't know the answer."
PEOPLE has asked Snoop Dogg's agent for a comment, but they have not yet replied.
Some places didn't like how Disney and Pixar included the same-sex embrace in Lightyear. In fact, some countries, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, wouldn't let it come out at all. In Oklahoma, one movie theater put up signs "warning" about the kiss and told people that the scene would be cut short.
The kiss was also taken out of the 2022 movie at one point, but it was later put back. The return was said to be because Disney and Pixar employees were angry about how former Disney CEO Bob Chapek responded to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill. At the time, Uzo Aduba, Chris Evans, and other cast and crew members of Buzz Lightyear were in favor of the studios' choice to bring back the kiss.