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Rapper Dragged After Furiously Walking Out Of 'The Color Purple' Due To Its Lesbian Love Story

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Rapper Boosie Badazz was swiftly schooled over his lack of knowledge about the source material, which features a romance between two of the film's female characters, Celie and Shug Avery.

Rapper Boosie Badazz fumed over the recent film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple over its LGBTQ+ themes and stormed out of the theater.

The Color Purple movie musical features American Idol alum Fantasia Barrino, who made her Broadway debut as Celie in the production in 2007 and is reprising the role in the 2022 movie.


The show was based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel of the same name that inspired Steven Spielberg's 1985 movie adaptation.

All three iterations of the powerful story center on the struggles particularly facing southern black women in the early 1900s, including domestic abuse and racial discrimination.

At the film's heart lies the sisterly love between separated siblings Celie and Nettie, as well as a lesbian romance between Celie and eccentric jazz and blues singer Shug Avery that leads to her self-realization and embracing self-love.

Badazz, who has eight children with six women, was not familiar with the novel and said he was offended by the film's LGBTQ+ storyline so much that he walked out of the movie with his daughters.

He lamented onX (formerly Twitter):

"I HAD TO WALK OUT THIS COLOR PURPLE MOVIE ( N TWO OTHER OLDER COUPLES WALKED OUT ALSO.) BECAUSE I HAD MY LITTLE GIRLS WITH ME N IT SEEMED LIKE A LOVE STORY."

He continued to express his grievance over the lesbian romance, which was adapted from Walker's novel.

"GOOD ACTING BUT WHOEVER WROTE THE SCRIPT IS PUSHING THE NARRATIVE HARD AS A PARENT I WILL NOT LET MY LITTLE GIRL WATCH THIS FILM."


It didn't take long for social media users to slam Badazz for his homophobic remark and for not doing his homework.


This wasn't the first time Boosie Badazz came under fire for his homophobia.

He publicly condemned out rapper Lil Nas X in 2021 with an anti-gay tweet, suggesting Nas should take his life because, "Nobody wants you here."

In 2020, Badazz made transphobic remarks aimed at former Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade for supporting his 12-year-old transgender daughter.

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