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Lakeith Stanfield Apologizes for Freestyle With Homophobic Lyrics
“Get Out” actor Lakeith Stanfield has apologized after posting a clip of himself rapping a freestyle with homophobic lyrics.
The clip, titled “offensive freestyle,” was posted a few days ago; the lyrics in question included the phrases “that’s some gay s—” and “f-g, I don’t really like to brag, but I’m straight, rich.”
“I express regret if I impair anybody, sincerely,” Stanfield said in a filmed apology posted to social media Tuesday. “That wasn’t my intention — to be somebody that was out here just slinging arrows and hurting people, so I want them to know that I apologize that they had to perceive sadness from that. So my sincerest apologies.”
Stanfield explained that he adopts distinct characters for his raps — “some things my views are aligned with and some things my views aren’t aligned with.” According to Stanfield, “this character that you’ve seen is a character that I’m definitely not in line with and I definitely don’t believe those things.”
He later posted a subsequent video to Twitter in which he apologized for offending people and explained that he was performing as a character, whose views he did not share.
“I’m really disheartened by the fact that people are being affected by it,” Stanfield told BuzzFeed News, “that people are feeling sad or anger or any of these negative feelings about the things I’ve done, because that wasn’t my intention at all, to injure people.”
Stanfield’s star has risen since becoming a regular on FX’s Atlanta and appearing in Jordan Peele's horror motion picture Get Out. He’s also starring in Sorry to Bother You, directed by Boots Riley, put for release next month.
He told BuzzFeed News he is not anti-gay, citing his role in the 2018 drama Come Sunday, in which he played a gay nature named Reggie.
“There’s no way I could’ve gotten in handle with the feelings of that nature if I had some sort of hate toward queer people,” Stanfield told BuzzFeed News. “I do not whatsoever.”
He stressed he was "not a person who hates."
"I’m a person that moves in love, and I’m concerned with everyone being capable to tap into their universal freedom," he said. "And that’s what I’ve always been about. Th
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LaKeith Stanfield’s personal life is in the news once again, this time by choice. He and his partner, Kasmere Trice, recently announced two major updates regarding their relationship: They are married and also have a toddler now. Double congratulations!
Stanfield and Trice sat down for an interview and inexplicably cowboy-themed photo shoot at with People, where they revealed they married in private and welcomed a baby at an undisclosed point this year. “We’ve manifested this beautiful family,” Stanfield told the publication. “I need to spend the rest of my life with her.”
Stanfield and Trice got engaged in December, though not without controversy. Shortly after they shared the news, artist Tylor Hurd claimed on Instagram that Stanfield was the father of her infant, accusing him of keeping their distributed daughter secret and not spending enough time with her. Stanfield suggested in a comment that he
Rainbow Rant: My unpopular male lover opinion
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Lakeith Stanfield, a popular player who starred in “Sorry to Bother You” and is a regular on the show “Atlanta,” recently recorded a rap where at the beginning he offered a disclosure: “Offensive freestyle, not for the easily offended.”
In the anthem, he raps the line, “Take that chump alter back, that's some male lover shit/Only black rags in my cab like I'm racist/Fag, I don't really like to brag, but I'm straight rich.”
Black Twitter and the rest of the internet went deranged as the clip was cycled around. People were upset that someone would risk his image and reputation on perceived homophobic lyrics. (Stanfield later issued an apology for the verse.) Usually I assent with the sentiments of my queer brethren, but in this case, in my unpopular opinion, his lyrics weren't all that serious, and I didn't take offense.
My stance will be a surprise to some, but with my understanding of hip-hop, I'm just not mad about the whole thing.
Here's the way that I watch at it. For starters, Stanfield's rap wasn't excellent. And not because it included a homophobic verse, but mainly because, from a hip-hop standpoint,