{"id":96538,"date":"2025-08-26T06:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96538\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T06:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:52:06","slug":"sarah-hanson-young-calls-blasts-afl-for-booking-snoop-dogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96538\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Hanson-Young Calls Blasts AFL For Booking Snoop Dogg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AFL should drop Snoop like he\u2019s hot.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the line from Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who has called out the league for booking the US rapper as the halftime entertainer at the 2025 grand final.<\/p>\n

The Greens Senator used a Senate address to call for Snoop\u2019s removal from the high-profile spot next month at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and put the league on blast for not supporting local talent.<\/p>\n

The Adelaide-based politician used the platform of her Senate address, and a followup post from her Instagram account, to brand Snoop a \u201cslur merchant\u201d.<\/p>\n

The AFL \u201chas decided, rather than putting on an Australian artist, they\u2019re gonna pay $2 million to play at the Grand Final,\u201d remarked Hanson-Young.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AFL is a cultural institution,\u201d she continued. And cultural institutions should back Australia\u2019s musicians and creative arts community.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the Senate, Hanson-Young also called foul on Snoop getting approved to play at the AFL\u2019s flagship event, while Adelaide Crows forward Izak Rankine received a multiple-week suspension for making a homophobic slur.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d Hanson-Young continued.<\/p>\n

The AFL missed an opportunity to support Australian artists, she added, many of them unable to be seen and heard<\/a> above the 100 million-plus songs ingested into the main streaming platforms, or compete with the big budgets of major-label artists on both sides of the Atlantic. \u201cWe need investment in Australian and Aussie talent. We need investment in our music industry, and we need to say that if it\u2019s an Aussie game, it\u2019s an Aussie artist playing,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n

Snoop was confirmed last month as the headliner for the pre-game entertainment at the AFL final, which kicks off September 27th at the MCG.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll join a long list of international acts who\u2019ve played in that spot, including Ed Sheeran, Sting, The Killers, Lionel Richie, Tom Jones, Meat Loaf, Bryan Adams and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave the guts to rethink this decision,\u201d she told the AFL.<\/p>\n

AFL CEO Andrew Dillon has defended the decision to book Snoop, who, in 2006, was banned from entering the UK following his role in a brawl at Heathrow Airport, and some years earlier presented a pornographic film.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also important to remember that we engaged Snoop Dogg in 2025 as the person he is today,\u201d he remarked. \u201cHe has spoken publicly about his past, he has changed, and today he is a grandfather, philanthropist, he helps rehabilitate youth and is a global entertainer who has performed at both the Super Bowl and the Olympic Closing Ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snoop is a living legend in the US, where he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; has published cookbooks; has three No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and as many leader of the Billboard 200 chart; guides the Snoop Youth Football League (SYFL), which has produced numerous NFL players; and has performed at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Snoop<\/a> signed an exclusive, five-year touring deal with TEG MJR, the U.K.-based promotion arm of Australian live entertainment, ticketing and tech giant TEG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL should drop Snoop like he\u2019s hot. That\u2019s the line from Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,70962,49334,85],"class_list":["post-96538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sarah-hanson-young","tag-snoop-dogg","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538","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=96538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}