{"id":168109,"date":"2025-09-25T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:35:10","slug":"snoop-dogg-afl-defends-decision-to-choose-american-rapper-for-saturdays-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168109\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg: AFL defends decision to choose American rapper for Saturday’s grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Football League (AFL) has defended its decision to choose American rapper Snoop Dogg as its headline musical act for Saturday’s grand final.<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg will appear at the match between Geelong and Brisbane at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which can hold up to 100,000 fans.<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old’s involvement has been criticised by some in Australia because of the rapper’s past use of misogynistic and offensive lyrics in some of his songs.<\/p>\n

It follows Adelaide player Izak Rankine<\/a> becoming the sixth AFL-listed player to be suspended for using a homophobic slur in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

AFL chief executive officer Andrew Dillon said he was “really confident” with Snoop Dogg’s inclusion.<\/p>\n

“He’s performed at the [Paris] Olympics, he’s performed at a Super Bowl, and he’ll suit our stage,” Dillon said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always been confident that he’d put on a show, but even more confident now.”<\/p>\n

An Australian politician, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, urged the AFL last month “to have the guts to dump” Snoop Dogg from its show, describing him in a statement to parliament as a “slur merchant”.<\/p>\n

She questioned the rationale behind hiring him to perform at a time when the AFL is looking to drive discrimination out of its sport.<\/p>\n

Rankine, 25, was banned after admitting a charge of using a slur against an unnamed Collingwood player during Adelaide’s three-point win in August.<\/p>\n

Speaking last month, CEO Dillon said this weekend’s performance by Snoop Dogg would be “family-friendly”.<\/p>\n

“We cannot vouch for every lyric in every song ever written or performed by any artist who has appeared on our stage – Australian or international,” Dillon said., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“It is also important to remember that we engaged Snoop Dogg in 2025 as the person he is today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Football League (AFL) has defended its decision to choose American rapper Snoop Dogg as its headline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-168109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}