Lakeith Stanfield’s beef with Charlamagne Tha God has resulted in a diss track. After the radio host gave the star of Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You the “Donkey of the Day” for criticizing The Breakfast Club last week, the 28-year-old actor responded by taking aim at Charlamagne in a song titled “Automatic.”
The Charlamagne vs. Stanfield saga began when the latter called out The Breakfast Club and a few other media outlets for being anti-black. In a since-deleted Instagram post, the Atlanta cast member slammed the popular radio show as well as The Shade Room, Lipstick Alley and WorldStarHipHop.
“It’s a fact that a lot of these platforms are usually or tend to be feeding grounds for negative reinforcement toward BLACK ‘nonconformists,'” he wrote. “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 museums. @ all you want.”
Charlamagne reacted on an episode of The Breakfast Club by declaring Stanfield the “Donkey of the Day” and condemning claims of the show being anti-black.
“You can say any and everything about me,” he said. “I’ve damn near heard it all about myself online, but what you won’t do is ever fix your lips to call one of my platforms, especially The Breakfast Club, anti-black … I don’t know what the hell Lakeith Stanfield is talking about, but I do know myself, Charlamagne Tha God, in the nine years that I’ve been on this Breakfast Club, I strive every day to be the perfect balance of ratchetness and righteousness, alright. There isn’t another show out there that goes from Byron Allen to Blac Youngsta like it’s nothing.”
He continued, “Lakeith Stanfield, don’t you ever fix your raggedy-ass mouth to call the author of Black Privilege — because I truly believe it is a privilege to be black — anti-black, OK? Ask all those white people who call up every day complaining about me saying ‘cracka ass cracka’ or ‘mayonnaise’ or why everything gotta be black or white.
“Ask them if I’m anti-black. Don’t ever fix your mouth to call a brother like me anti-black because young king, I know for a fact you don’t take the chances that I do every day in the name of blackness. That’s exactly why you didn’t call out any white media outlets, because your publicist, your agent and those Hollywood executives you work for would have had a fit. You would’ve never taken that chance.”
Stanfield fired back with his “Automatic” single, which featured cover artwork of Charlamagne as a racist caricature and a line directed at the outspoken personality.
“I’m black, I’m Atlanta, I’m the Hall of Fame/Insecure, you afraid, you’s a Charlagmagne/Bitch, that pussy shit that runs yo lips I’m born to trip/I’m mixing up my blood with drugs and guns and gangsta Crip,” he rapped.
Stanfield also addressed Charlamagne’s comments about him in a video posted on social media, playing clips of the “Donkey of the Day” segment and addressing the radio host’s arguments.
Watch that response below.
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How do you people say this stuff with a straight face? So now even other black people are racist towards you? Lmfao you cant make this stuff up. Crybaby victim mentality at its finest.
Whites hate whites too…snobby rich whites don’t like poor whites and the poor whites hate them too…the fact that you’re on this site lets me know that you’re a poor white, rich whites spend too much time at their country clubs and yacht parties and don’t have time to be commenting on hip hop sites, just admit it you hate them black people, and most of all you hate your pathetic life too, that’s why you’re here
Boy who cried wolf, That is called classism not racism you buffoon…this is proof that you idiots go around calling everybody racist and you dont even know the meaning of the word.
The agenda …who owns there platform …may not be racist but detrimental don’t be silly and act as if this is impossible…
I ain’t gonna lie and y’all can’t front, that was fire! Dusty know he could do the that!
didnt listen to the diss, but his original comment about the media outlets being antiblack is spot on. he didnt name them all tho…
I can’t stand Charlene the God. He’s such a self righteous idiot. Who calls them self “the god” GTFOH.
Oh shit…black on black racism, add that to all the black on black violence, damn y’all really trying to takeover for the white man. This shit is hilarious, it’s like the “anti-black” automation took over and he forgot who he was talking about. It’s like that time that chick told the black dude to check his white privilege…it’s just become the automatic defense mechanism now
Lmfao facts
So There’s no white on white racism? I live in South Carolina, the rich whites don’t like the hillbilly poor trash types and vice versa
That’s CLASSISM, not racism. Still fucked to though.
IM WITH LAKEITH. BEEN SAYING THIS SHIT FOR YEARS WITH ALL THE LIGHT SKIN DARK SKIN STUFF THEY BANTER ABOUT AMONGST OTHER THINGS. I’M NOT A DEEP OR PREACHY DUDE AT ALL, BUT THEY ARE DEFINITELY A BIT TOO IGNORANT FOR ME. I HAVEN’T WATCHED/LISTENED TO BC OR C THA FRAUD RELATED IN YEARS.
Diss track clean
The level of immaturity with this..damn.
Lol Charlene the Broad bringing up unrelated shit and twisting shit up like a mad girlfriend hahahahaha
Lakeith, you are super-talented and intelligent, but put some respect on Charlamagne’s name. Breakfast Club does some cool stuff. Not everything is what you would do, but you can’t on one hand accuse people of putting down nonconformists and on the other hand, put them down because they don’t 100% do what you think they should. Nah, bruh. Promoting nonconformity is about giving everybody some space. That’s how you get space back.
Also, not saying you have to conform or anything, but “I’m mixing up my blood with drugs and guns and gangsta Crip”??? There’s this incredible movie called Sorry To Bother You you should check out. One Love.
We are Gods true that. But the breakfast club to me is a show I care not to listen to. I heard The God speak and criticized a lot of people. But first and foremost you must understand God is love, Calling yourself a God you should be a example of what you are. If you need all this therapy then mentally and spiritually something is wrong with you. God is a perfect entity and don’t need therapy,he is therapy. If you don’t cry when thinking about God and the things he does how can you say you are .1% of anything like Our God. You to me is basically wanting attention. I normally don’t comment on anything but this time I just say something. “ C-G “ remember this to thyself be true.