Snoop Dogg shared his love for parents from all walks of life after his controversial comments about a same-sex couple in the Disney film Lightyear earlier this year.
Snoop, 53, teamed up with media monitoring organization GLAAD to celebrate Spirit Day on Thursday, October 16, with a new song, “Love Is Love,” and a candid conversation with The Voice alum Jeremy Beloate, whom he coached on the NBC reality singing competition.
“It’s a beautiful thing that kids can have parents of all walks and be able to be shown love, to be taught what love is, because hate is taught, and so is love,” Snoop said in the chat with Beloate, which was shared via the rapper’s YouTube channel.
“I think that being able to have parents of all walks of life, whether it’s two fathers, two mothers, whatever it is, love is the key,” he added. “I think these kids are being loved by these great parents that are showing them an example of what a family is.”
Snoop added in a statement to Out, “At the end of the day, it’s all about love — that’s what we’re teachin’ the kids with ‘Love Is Love.’ Partnering with GLAAD for Spirit Day just felt right because spreading love and respect for everybody is what real gangstas do. We’re showin’ the next generation that kindness is cool, inclusion is powerful and love always wins.”
As well as praising same-sex parents and families, Snoop is also doing his part to represent them. The rap star released a new song, “Love Is Love,” on Thursday via Doggyland, his animated YouTube channel for children, to teach inclusion and diversity.
“We embrace all parents with a big ol’ hug / Love is love and there’s nothing above,” Snoop raps. “Different families make us all great / there’s no debate, that’s how we relate.”
Snoop’s support for LGBTQIA+ representation comes after his controversial comments in August about watching Toy Story spinoff Lightyear with his grandchildren. The Pixar animated film features a montage in which one of the characters kisses her wife, and they later have a child.
Gabrielle Union and more celebrity parents have released picture books for children. The Bring It On actress released her debut book, Welcome to the Party, in May 2020 to celebrate non-traditional families. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a valid email. Subscribe By signing up, I agree to the Terms […]
“I took my grandson to see [Lightyear] … Keke Palmer is in that movie. She plays, like, the daughter,” he said on the “It’s Giving” podcast. “So we’re watching it and … down the line [a woman character] had a baby with a woman. My grandson, in the middle of the movie, was like, ‘Papa Snoop, how did she have a baby with a woman?’”
“I’m scared to go to the movies now,” he continued. “Y’all throwing me in the middle of s*** that I don’t have an answer for.”
Snoop added, “It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?’ These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
Snoop’s comments were subsequently removed from the podcast episode.
Chris Evans, who voiced lead character Buzz Lightyear in the 2022 film, previously defended the Disney movie’s inclusion of a same-sex relationship.
“It’s nice, and it’s wonderful, it makes me happy [to have such inclusion],” he told Variety in June 2022. “[But] it’s tough to not be a little frustrated that it even has to be a topic of discussion. That it is this kind of ‘news.’”