Snoop Dogg is going through mounting stress in Australia after a senator demanded he be dropped from the 2025 AFL Grand Final over his current podcast feedback and previous lyrics.

The West Coast rapper was known as a “slur merchant” by Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young throughout a speech in Parliament, the place she urged the Australian Football League to cancel his headline efficiency on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday (September 27).

She slammed the league’s resolution to pay the Hip-Hop icon $2 million, arguing the cash ought to as an alternative help native musicians.

“The AFL is a cultural institution, and cultural institutions like this should be backing the rest of our cultural institutions — our artists, our musicians and our music industry right here at home,” Hanson-Young mentioned.

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 resolution to e book Snoop Dogg.

“The irony is not lost on many of us that while Izak Rankine gets dumped, Snoop Dogg gets $2 million to play his misogynistic, homophobic music on our turf,” she mentioned.

Hanson-Young known as on the AFL to “have the guts to rethink this decision.” She added, “Dump Snoop Dogg and put in place an Aussie artist.”

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Snoop Dogg “Scared” Over LGBTQ+ Content In Movies

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 middle of the movie, asked, ‘Papa Snoop? How can she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” he mentioned.

Snoop continued, “I didn’t come here for this s###. I just came to watch the g##### movie,” and added, “I’m scared to go to the movies now. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s### that I don’t have an answer for.”

F### Snoop pic.twitter.com/H9bTqeZr9C

— Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 (@ClaudetteGGibs1) August 24, 2025

In response to the criticism, AFL CEO Andrew Dillon defended the choice to e book Snoop Dogg.

“It’s crucial to remember that we engaged Snoop Dogg as the person he is today,” Dillon mentioned. “He has been open about his past, has evolved, and is now a grandfather and philanthropist who supports youth rehabilitation.”

As of now, the AFL has not introduced any modifications to the Grand Final leisure lineup.

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