Lakeith Stanfield Apologizes After Releasing A Freestyle Filled With Gay Slurs

Any time Lakeith Stanfield isn't playing Darius on Atlanta or transforming into a leading man for movies like Sorry to Bother You, he moonlights as a rapper. Stanfield is one-half of the duo MOORS with L.A. Producer HH. Unfortunately, over the weekend his bars got him into serious trouble immediately after several people took offense to a freestyle where he drops countless gay slurs. In a video posted to Instagram and Twitter today (June 26), Stanfield apologized for the controversial lyrics.


"I make videos all of the time, which I generally just be deleting soon as I make 'em. I assume characters that have different viewpoints and different views on life and just different perspectives," Stanfield says. "Some things my views are aligned with, and then some things my views aren't aligned with, and this character that you've seen is a character that I'm certainly not in line with and I certainly don't believe those things."


"So I just want people to know, like, coming from me, that I've never been homophobic," he continues. "Have never agreed with homophobic thought or hatred toward anyone for that matter. I'm a person that moves in love and I'd like to promote and continue to push that."


Twitter user @_BayBey shared the since-deleted original Instagram video where Lakeith debuted mentioned "character." Lyrics like, "Boy, you're dressed like trash, you an eight-six / Take that choke chain back, that's some gay shit," and "F--, I don’t really like to brag, although I’m straight, wealthy are only some of the lines that have several offended.