Rapper Snoop Dogg declares “Love is love” in pro-LGBTQ+ Spirit Day video

Rapper Snoop Dogg partnered with the LGBTQ+ media watchdog GLAAD on Thursday to commemorate Spirit Day, a day of support for queer youth. The rapper’s involvement follows comments he made in late August, saying that he was “scared to go to the movies” after not knowing how to explain to his grandson a brief scene of one woman kissing another in the Pixar animated film Lightyear.

In the Spirit Day video, Snoop wears purple (the day’s trademark color) and interviews Jeremy Beloate, an out contestant coached by Snoop in the reality singing competition The Voice. They discuss the childhood bullying Beloate faced for being a boy who likes singing as well as the support Beloate got from his family.

“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,” Snoop says in the video.

In a statement, the rapper said, “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.”

In the interview, the two musicians also discuss their collaboration on a song about loving your family, entitled “Love Is Love,” featured in the rapper’s animated children’s YouTube series Doggyland. In the episode, Beloate voices a puppy named Zippy, and Snoop Dogg voices the show’s main character Bow Wizzle.

“Our parents are different / No two are the same / But the one thing that’s for certain is the love won’t change,” the characters sing, as several same-sex couples join in the scene. “Families are special / They are so unique / Everybody’s got a purpose, more than what you see.”

In a late August interview, Snoop Dogg brought up  Lightyear , the 2022 Pixar film that included a brief scene with a character giving her wife a chaste peck on the cheek. 

Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie, is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’”

“Oh s**t, I didn’t come in for this s**t. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,” Snoop continued. But he said his grandson kept on bringing it up in the theater: “They just said, she and she had a baby. They’re both women. How does she have a baby?’”

Snoop, who is a born-again Christian, said the movie “f**ked me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s**t that I don’t have an answer for.” He did not explain why he could not answer the simple question.

“These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer,” he said.

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