When Pixar’s Lightyear debuted with its first openly same-sex couple, it sparked conversations everywhere — including inside Snoop Dogg’s household. On a recent episode of his It’s Giving podcast, the rap icon revealed that he felt “scared” to take his grandsons to the movies after fielding their questions about the film’s lesbian parents.
“I didn’t even know how to answer them,” Snoop admitted. “It’s confusing when you trying to explain stuff like that to kids.”
But while some fans sympathized with his uncertainty, others saw his comments as perpetuating a double standard — and none louder than media personality and LGBTQ+ advocate Ts Madison.
Madison clapped back, pointing out that Snoop has built much of his career around content with heavy doses of sex, drugs, and violence — yet somehow queer representation in a children’s movie was where he drew the line.
“You not scared when the lyrics is about pimpin’ and gangbangin’, but two moms in a cartoon got you shook?” Madison asked during her livestream response. “That’s bias. That’s conditioning. And that’s the problem.”
The exchange quickly went viral, with fans split down the middle. Some defended Snoop’s right to feel uncomfortable, while others rallied behind Madison, praising her for highlighting the contradictions in hip-hop culture’s approach to LGBTQ+ issues.
Snoop, never one to stay silent for long, doubled down in a follow-up post:
“I respect everybody. But as a grandfather, I get to decide what my grandkids see. That don’t mean I hate nobody — it mean I love my family first.”
The back-and-forth has reignited a broader conversation about representation in media and the generational divides over LGBTQ+ inclusion in family entertainment. Whether you side with Snoop’s cautious approach or Madison’s unapologetic advocacy, one thing is clear: Lightyear did