Snoop Dogg admitted he was caught off guard when his grandson asked about the same-sex relationship in Pixar’s Lightyear and how two women could have a child together.
The 53-year-old rap icon shared the moment during an appearance on the It’s Giving podcast, where he also opened up about marriage, parenting, and masculinity.
Around the 31-minute mark, Snoop recalled watching the 2022 film with his grandson when the character Alisha Hawthorne appeared with her wife and child.
“Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like, ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,’” he said, admitting the question “threw [him] for a loop.”
Snoop is a proud grandfather of seven, including 10-year-old Zion Kalvin Broadus and 4-year-old Sky Love Broadus.
“I didn’t come here for this shit,” Snoop continued. “I just came to watch the goddamn movie.”
Though Lightyear never explains how Alisha Hawthorne and her wife have a child, same-sex couples often turn to artificial insemination or IVF with sperm donation.
Snoop revealed that when his grandson raised the question, he simply told him to “shh” and keep eating his popcorn because he didn’t know how to break it down.
“So it’s like, fuck me, I’m scared to go to the movies now,” he admitted. “Like, y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for. It threw me for a loop. We have to show that at this age? Like, they’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
The depiction of a same-sex relationship in Lightyear was already a flashpoint of controversy. A kiss between Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her wife was initially cut but later restored after Pixar employees accused Disney leadership of censoring “overtly gay affection” in its films, according to Variety.
The Toy Story spinoff drew pushback from conservatives and was outright banned in the UAE and other Muslim-majority countries.
At the time, Chris Evans, who voiced Buzz Lightyear, clapped back at critics, calling them “idiots.” Speaking to Reuters, he said: “Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good. There’s always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs. I think the goal is to pay them no mind, march forward and embrace the growth that makes us human.”
