Snoop Dogg’s New Year’s Special Scrapped More Than 2 Months After Backlash From LGBTQ+ Community

Snoop Dogg may have really dropped the ball.

The 54-year-old rapper’s planned New Year’s Eve special, which was to air on NBC and Peacock, has been canceled.

“Sometimes the calendar gets in the way of the celebration, which is why my NBC family and I decided this winter was time for us all to focus on the Olympics,” Snoop said in a statement to Deadline on Wednesday, November 5.

“But don’t worry,” he added, “we’ll party together bigger and better later in 2026. Ya dig.”

The two-hour special was scheduled to air live from Miami on December 31 and promised “a night packed with unforgettable music, iconic performances and surprise artist collaborations.”

While no performers had been announced, it is currently unclear what — if anything — will go in its place.

Snoop Dogg, who will cover the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina for NBCUniversal, came under fire in late August for questionable comments he made on the It’s Giving podcast regarding the Disney and Pixar film Lightyear.

During the August 20 episode, he detailed a trip to the movies with one of his grandsons.

While watching Lightyear, a montage in which a pair of lesbians fall in love, get married and raise a child led to questions about same-sex couples that “I don’t have an answer for,” Snoop said.

“My grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” he continued.

“I’m like, scared to go to the movies now,” the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” artist said. “Y’all throwing me in the middle of s**t that I don’t have an answer for.”

The insensitive remarks made headlines and received criticism from the LGBTQ+ community.

The podcast episode on YouTube has been edited to remove the section in which Snoop discusses Lightyear; however, it provides a link to a shorter clip that’s titled, “Disney exposing kids too soon??”