LaKeith Stanfield criticized black media on his Instagram account over the weekend, calling out outlets that he felt represented the black community poorly.
“The shade room, lipstick ally, breakfast club, worldstar, and many others are or anti black,” he posted. “It’s a fact that a lot of these platforms are usually or tend to be feeding grounds for negative reinforcement toward BLACK ‘nonconformists’.”
The Atlanta actor went on to express how the media outlets tend to lean more toward meaningless conversations that don’t uplift the black community.
Stanfield continued, “They bolster faux vanity and hold a white supremacists scope over black men and women often highlighting negative attributes and downplaying mind expanding ones. They serve as bottomless coward consumption pits and digital, audio, or otherwise slave mentatilty…”
When The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God saw Stanfield’s post, he solidified the beef by making the actor Donkey of the Day, a segment highlighting the foolishnes of random people.
Watch Charlamagne Tha God Give Donkey of the Day To LaKeith Stanfield
The radio host basically retorted that Stanfield was essentially being a hypocrite. Charlamagne pointed out how Stanfield had nothing meaningful to say when he came up to The Breakfast Club. He also expressed how he felt Stanfield would never criticize white media outlets because of the politics of Hollywood.
After Stanfield heard the Donkey of the Day, he released a new rap song called “Automatic” from upcoming project Self Control. Throughout the song, he throws shots at his critics, in particular Charlamagne. The YouTube video even has an image of Charlamagne depicted as a coon.
He raps, “I’m Black. I’m Atlanta. I’m the Hall of Fame. Insecure, you afraid, you’s a Charlagmagne.”
The song sounds similar to rapper Bobby Schmurda’s popular 2014 New York anthem “Hot N***A”. Stanfield accommodated the diss record with a video message analyzing Charlamagne’s Donkey of the Day.
Watch LaKeith Stanfield Respond To Charlamagne
“I never called you personally anti-black, but I can see why out of everybody you might be the most offended one on the show,” LaKeith said in his message. “I said the platform as a whole, all three of y’all…My bad for holding y’all up to a higher standard.”
What do you think? Is the current landscape of black media detrimental to the black community?
