Footy legend Brendan Fevola has claimed controversial US rapper Snoop Dogg will be dumped as the headline AFL Grand Final entertainment act due to controversy around his songs and comments on women and gay people.
The rapper’s selection to perform at the AFL’s showpiece event has divided Aussies, with some saying that the league is abandoning its platform of respecting women by hiring Snoop.
The hip-hop icon has also made controversial comments about same-sex relationships last week as Adelaide star Izak Rankine was suspended for four matches for directing a homophobic slur at an opponent.
Fevola believes that the AFL will backflip and axe Snoop from his headlining gig.
‘On Snoop Dogg, I might have some goss about that,’ Fevola told 101.9 The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick on Monday.
‘They’re going to axe him.’
Brendan Fevola (pictured) says Snoop Dogg will be dumped as the AFL Grand Final entertainment act
Hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg (pictured) has been in the spotlight following Izak Rankine’s suspension for using a homophobic slur
‘Because of his lyrics in his song and he talked about gay parents over the weekend.
‘I think he will get the a**e, and they are going to go for an Aussie artist to play at the MCG.
‘That will happen, take that to the bank. He will get the [arse], which he should.’
Given Snoop’s huge profile, the move would be sure to make headlines outside Australia.
Last week, Dillon defended the AFL’s decision to pay Snoop a rumoured $2million to perform at the grand final.
‘We cannot vouch for every lyric in every song ever written or performed by any artist who has or will appear on our stage, Australian or international,’ he said.
‘It’s also important to remember that we have engaged Snoop Dogg in 2025 as the person he is today.
‘He has spoken publicly about his past, he has changed, and today he is a grandfather, philanthropist, he helps rehabilitate youth, and he’s a global entertainer who has performed at both the Super Bowl and the Olympic closing ceremony to audiences of more than 100 million people.
AFL CEO Andrew Dillon has defended the decision to engage the US rapper for this year’s entertainment
Fevola says that Snoop Dogg will be replaced by an Aussie act at the grand final (pictured, Brisbane stars celebrate winning the premiership last year)
‘In those environments, his performances were appropriate and well-received, and his performance this year at our grand final will be fitting for the best sporting event in the country.’
However, Snoop proved Dillon wrong when he appeared on a podcast last Thursday.
The 53-year-old was discussing taking his grandson to see the kids’ movie Lightyear, which features two female characters who kiss.
Snoop Dogg said his grandson asked him, ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman.’
He responded, ‘Aw s**t, I didn’t come here for this s**t, I just came here to watch the goddamn movie.
‘So that’s like f**k me, I’m scared to go to the movies now, y’all throwing me in the middle of this s**t that I don’t have an answer for … it threw me for a loop.
‘These are kids … [do] we have to show that at that age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.’
Snoop also said ‘they putting it everywhere’ as he began talking about the depiction of same-sex relationships in popular culture.
Simple Google searches will bring up Snoop’s past scandals around homophobia.
In 2014 he published then deleted an Instagram post with a photo of two men sharing a bed and the words ‘go suck ya man n get off my line f**’.
Three years later, the video for his song Moment I Feared saw him accused of open homophobia for attacking rapper Young Thug – who has often worn women’s clothing – in a comedy skit that saw him interview a fictional rapper wearing high heels and carrying a pink handbag.
Critics of the AFL’s choice have also raised Snoop’s long history of sexist and misogynistic lyrics and song titles.
The rapper’s 1998 hit Doggz Gonna Get Ya features the same slur, ‘f****t’, that Rankine used.
