Snoop Dogg is just the latest in a string of musicians who should think before they tweet or upload to Instragram, following the backlash against Cee Lo Green for suggesting it isn’t rape if the other person isn’t conscious, and closer to home Bliss N Eso’s MC Eso who posted a series of misogynistic photos to his Instragram account.
Now former pimp, popular musician, and reality tv star Snoop Dogg has stepped into the firing line. No stranger to backlash about his attitude towards women, Snoop has now broadened his horizons by going full scary homophobic on his Instragram account.
[include_post id=”417867″]
Overnight and for unknown reasons Snoop uploaded a black and white photo of two men hugging in bed together with the caption: “U n ya boyfriend since u like Jumpn on my page disrespectin bitch boy go suck ya man n get off my line f. A. G.”
The exact same photo and message was also posted to his Twitter account, according to Spin. Less than an hour later and the photos were removed from both accounts, probably by his publicist. who probably went into nuclear meltdown.
The internet however, never forget, and many fans managed to get screenshots before the posts were removed.
It remains unclear whether the posts were made by Snoop himself, or if his accounts had been hacked, and Snoop is yet to address the posts in question, instead send out two amigioius images with messages immediately following the backlash.
Snoop has positioned himself in the past as a supporter of gay rights such as marriage equality, as detailed in an interview with The Guardian in April last year.
“I don’t have a problem with gay people. I got some gay homies,” he said at the time. “Yeah, for real. People who were gay used to get beat up. It was cool to beat up on gay people back then. But in the 90s and 2000s, gay is a way of life. Just regular people with jobs. Now they are accepted, not classified. They just went through the same things we went through as black.”
But doesn’t believe the lifestyle will ever be accepted in hip-hop culture. “Frank Ocean ain’t no rapper. He’s a singer. It’s acceptable in the singing world, but in the rap world I don’t know if it will ever be acceptable because rap is so masculine.”
“It’s like a football team. You can’t be in a locker room full of motherfucking tough-ass dudes, then all of a sudden say, ‘Hey, man, I like you.’ You know, that’s going to be tough.”
