Snoop Dogg is dealing with mounting strain in Australia after a senator demanded he be dropped from the 2025 AFL Grand Ultimate over his latest podcast feedback and previous lyrics.
The West Coast rapper was known as a “slur service provider” by Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Younger throughout a speech in Parliament, the place she urged the Australian Soccer League to cancel his headline efficiency on the Melbourne Cricket Floor on Saturday (September 27).
She slammed the league’s choice to pay the Hip-Hop icon $2 million, arguing the cash ought to as a substitute help native musicians.
“The AFL is a cultural establishment, and cultural establishments like this ought to be backing the remainder of our cultural establishments — our artists, our musicians and our music business proper right here at residence,” Hanson-Younger stated.
She identified the distinction between the league’s therapy of Adelaide Crows participant Izak Rankine, who was suspended for utilizing a homophobic slur, and its choice to guide Snoop Dogg.
“The irony will not be misplaced on many people that whereas Izak Rankine will get dumped, Snoop Dogg will get $2 million to play his misogynistic, homophobic music on our turf,” she stated.
Hanson-Younger known as on the AFL to “have the heart to rethink this choice.” She added, “Dump Snoop Dogg and put in place an Aussie artist.”
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Snoop Dogg “Scared” Over LGBTQ+ Content material In Motion pictures
The backlash intensified after Snoop Dogg made remarks on a podcast about LGBTQ+ illustration in kids’s movies.
He recalled taking his grandson to see the 2022 animated film Lightyear, which encompasses a same-sex couple elevating a baby.
“My grandson … in the course of the film, requested, ‘Papa Snoop? How can she have a child with a lady? She’s a lady!’” he stated.
Snoop continued, “I didn’t come right here for this s###. I simply got here to look at the g##### film,” and added, “I’m scared to go to the films now. Y’all throwing me in the course of s### that I don’t have a solution for.”
F### Snoop pic.twitter.com/H9bTqeZr9C
— Nurses In opposition to Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 (@ClaudetteGGibs1) August 24, 2025
In response to the criticism, AFL CEO Andrew Dillon defended the choice to guide Snoop Dogg.
“It’s essential to do not forget that we engaged Snoop Dogg because the particular person he’s at present,” Dillon stated. “He has been open about his previous, has advanced, and is now a grandfather and philanthropist who helps youth rehabilitation.”
As of now, the AFL has not introduced any modifications to the Grand Ultimate leisure lineup.
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