“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.”

Cool. This is without getting into the rapper’s problematic history of using misogynistic, sexually demeaning language in his lyrics. 

Someone at AFL house put all this together and said this is the man for us. He perfectly fits who we are. Besides, did no one else see him dressed up like an equestrian rider at........

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