Homophobic rapper viciously mocked for walking out of “The Color Purple” over lesbian love story

Rapper Boosie Badazz says he walked out of a screening of The Color Purple with his daughters because he didn’t want them to see the new film’s lesbian love story.

The new film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical based on out author Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1983 novel arrived in U.S. theaters on Christmas Day. Like the book, the musical has at its center a romance between Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a horrifically abused Black woman living in the rural South in the early 1900s, and free-spirited blues singer Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson). While director Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-nominated 1985 screen adaptation downplayed the relationship, Walker has praised the new film for its more forthright depiction of the characters as lovers.

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That apparently didn’t sit well with Boosie Badazz, who appears to have been unfamiliar with Walker’s novel, Spielberg’s film, and the Broadway musical—all three of which have become massive cultural touchstones. On Tuesday, he took to X to rant about his distaste for the new film.

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“I HAD TO WALK OUT OF THIS COLOR PURPLE MOVIE [sic],” the rapper wrote. “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.”

The ridicule came fast and furious, with other X users roasting Boosie for his ignorance of the story.

It’s in the book and the original movie

— Zuby Da Sleeze (@TheHurricaneDu) January 2, 2024

Boosie always proving how you don’t have to be smart or educated to be successful cause the original book and movie is a black queer love story! Stop being a loser!

— JAMAL