Keith Stanfield
Keith Stanfield
LaKeith Lee "Keith" Stanfieldis an American actor and rapper. He made his feature film debut in Short Term 12, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2014, he co-starred in the horror film The Purge: Anarchy and in the Martin Luther King biopic Selma, as civil right activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. In 2015, Stanfield appeared in the film Dope, and the biopic about the hip-hop group N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton, portraying Snoop Dogg in the latter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 August 1991
CitySan Bernardino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.
You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.
They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.
My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.
My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.