Snoop Dogg has been caught up in an ongoing controversy after it was revealed his apology to the LGBTQ+ community was fake.
The 53-year-old rapper has not yet addressed the backlash against his viral comments regarding LGBTQ+ representation in Disney‘s 2022 animated movie Lightyear.
A rep for the musician said that the apology that has recently been shared on social media was not written by the rapper or anyone on his team, according to Deadline.
The apology did not appear on any of his verified social media accounts.
Snoop previously commented on a scene between Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and her wife while watching the 2022 animated sci-fi movie, which was produced by Pixar for Disney.
He faced backlash after saying the scene ‘f***ed me up’ and made him ‘scared to go to the movies’ anymore.
The fake comment that appeared to be from Snoop’s verified Instagram read: ‘I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons.’
Snoop Dogg, 53, has been caught up in an ongoing controversy, after it was revealed his apology to the LGBTQ + community was fake; pictured June in Los Angeles
The rapper has not yet addressed the backlash against his viral comments regarding LGBTQ + representation in Disney‘s 2022 animated movie Lightyear
‘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 on Hollywood Unlocked clip of T.S. Madison calling out Snoop has since been deleted.
In the Toy Story spin-off, which stars Chris Evans as the voice actor behind the titular space explorer, Lightyear features a same-sex kiss between Alisha and wife Kiko.
The scene resulted in the movie being banned from theaters in Middle East markets, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
During his appearance on the It’s Giving podcast, Snoop previously declared that he ‘didn’t come in for this s**t.’
He recalled not knowing what to tell his grandchildren when he took them to the movies and they asked him about a same-sex kissing scene in Lightyear.
‘What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,’ he said on the podcast.
A rep for the musician said that the apology that has recently been shared on social media was not written by the rapper or anyone on his team, per Deadline; pictured May in Los Angeles
The artist previously recalled not knowing what to tell his grandchildren when he took them to the movies and they asked him about a same-sex kissing scene in Lightyear
He faced backlash after saying the scene ‘f***ed me up’ and made him ‘scared to go to the movies’ anymore; pictured June in Los Angeles
He then said seeing a same-sex couple in the animated movie ‘threw me for a loop.’
‘They’re like, “She had a baby — with another woman.” Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, “Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!”
‘Y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for… It threw me for a loop. I’m like, “What part of the movie was this?”
He said on the podcast: ‘These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
This is not the first time Snoop has faced scrutiny over LGBTQ+ comments.
In 2014, he used a slur in an Instagram caption, and he once referred to Caitlyn Jenner as a ‘science project.’
Now, the rapper, a grandfather of eight, says he wants to learn from the moment rather than shut down conversation.
‘Teach me how to learn,’ he emphasized, signaling his intent to better handle such questions going forward. ‘I’m not perfect.’
