Rankine, Snoop and the AFL’s hypocrisy on homophobia

“It’s acceptable in the singing world (to come out as gay), 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 motherf---ing tough-ass dudes, then all of a sudden say ‘Hey, man, I like you.’ You know, that’s going to be tough.”

Snoop Dogg at the Paris Olympics. Credit: Getty Images

Welcome to the thoughts of gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg, as told to The Guardian in a 2014 interview. Snoop is the entertainer of choice for the AFL grand final.

What else has Dogg got for us? Oh that’s it, the quickly-deleted Instagram post, also from 2014, showing two men together captioned, “go suck ya man n get off my line f. A. G.”

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