Snoop Dogg Backtracks on Homophobic Comments With New Song and GLAAD Partnership

After catching heat for his remarks about Disney’s 2022 Lightyear and its depiction of a same-sex couple, Snoop Dogg is walking back his words and now showing support for the LGBTQ+ community.

The rapper, who once said he was “scared” to explain gay characters to his grandkids, is now teaming up with GLAAD to show support for the organization’s annual Spirit Day initiative, a day when celebrities, media outlets, and corporations wear purple to stand against bullying. He’s pairing the gesture with a more hands-on effort, including a new song and conversation with singer Jeremy Beloate, an openly gay artist who once competed on Snoop’s team on The Voice.

The song, “Love Is Love,” will appear on Snoop’s animated kids’ series Doggyland, a show he described as “teaching situations that kids in the world are going through right now… through song, dance, and melody.” 

He told Beloate, “These are things that kids have questions about, so hopefully we can help answer these questions and help them to live a happy life and understand that love is love.”

He continued, “It’s a beautiful thing that kids can have parents of all walks and be shown love, to be taught what love is… being able to have parents from all walks of life, whether it be two fathers, two mothers, whatever it is, love is the key.”

It’s a notable in tone from Snoop’s comments earlier this year, when he recalled being caught off guard having to explain the same-sex couple in Lightyear to his grandson. 

“They’re like, ‘She had a baby—with another woman,’” he told host Sarah Fontenot on It’s Giving. “My grandson is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” 

Snoop said he panicked.

“Oh shit, I didn’t come in for this. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.” He added that the scene “threw him for a loop” and made him “scared to go to the movies.”

Whether this is genuine growth, good PR, or a little of both, it’s a reminder that even Snoop Dogg can unlearn old instincts.