The rapper took to X (formerly Twitter) to express his outrage at the queer storyline
BY ELLA GAUCI, IMAGE BY WARNER BROS
When Blitz Bazawule’s new adaptation of Alice Walker’s classic novel The Color Purple was announced, questions were immediately raised about whether this version would finally delve into the queer storyline between Celie (Fantasia Barrino) and Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson). In previous adaptations like Speilberg’s 1985 film, this love story has been played down and reduced to just one singular kiss.
However, for non-US cinema-goers, we have confirmation that The Color Purple is in fact super gay from an unlikely source. Boosie BadAzz, a rapper who has made homophobic comments about Lil Nas X in the past, said that he had to walk out of the cinema due to the sapphic plot.
Posting to his followers on X (formerly Twitter), Boosie BadAzz wrote in all capital letters: “I had to walk out of 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!! 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✅.”
Alice Walker’s classic novel The Color Purple follows the story of African-American teenager Celie who is being raised in Georgia in the 1900s. The epistolary novel is told through letters that she writes to God as she navigates her abusive father and an abusive marriage. Canonically, The Color Purple has always been a queer novel and Alice Walker made no secret of the sexual relationship between her protagonist and Shug Avery.
Quickly Boosie BadAzz’s tweet was met with criticism from other X users. “So yall more upset that Mrs Celie and Shug Avery was exploring their sexuality but didn’t draw the line at her being molested at 14 by her stepfather and having his kids?” wrote @TsMadisonNews.
“U clearly never seen the first one either, AND u got a gay daughter. This tweet all over the place,” another wrote in reference to Boosie’s own daughter Poison Ivi who is openly out as a lesbian.
Boosie quickly responded to these tweets saying that “we have a right as parents to say its not cool for a 7 n 9 year old to watch this. We have rights to parents to protect our children as much as we can.”
He also claimed to have no problem with LGBTQIA people, but cited that his grandad was a Southern Baptist preacher and therefore he was “just tryna raise my kids with the same beliefs n respect we was raised with it’s just this will have u n a fight to do so!!”
After receiving more criticism, Boosie went on a rant via X about the fact that more “traditional households” want to see “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”.
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