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SZA has delivered her new song “Shirt.” Released alongside a cinematic Dave Meyers-directed video co-starring Atlanta’s LaKeith Stanfield, “Shirt” is the TDE signee’s first new solo song since she dropped “I Hate U” last year. In an interview with Aria Hughes for a Complex cover story, SZA said “Shirt” marked her fulfilling a long-held dream to work with […]
The characters in Atlanta are more complicated to rank than others. Outside of the main crew—Earn (Donald Glover), Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry), Van (Zazie Beetz), and Darius (LaKeith Stanfield)—one of the aspects that have made the FX series so remarkable is the many personalities that have been introduced throughout the show’s three seasons. Some […]
SZA has shared her visualizer for her hit song “I Hate U,” starring LaKeith Stanfield. The Jack Begert-directed video opens with Stanfield yelling into the phone in his car, which sits in a desolate parking lot next to the ocean. He continues the conversation as he climbs out of his vehicle and walks to the […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets It took a while, but with filming for Season 3 of Donald Glover’s critically-acclaimed FX series Atlanta is officially complete, and […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets There are young people of all ages who dream of making it big in Tinseltown. These starry-eyed hopefuls sit […]
Outlaw Nat Love, played by Jonathan Majors, is out for revenge in Netflix’s upcoming western The Harder They Fall. A new teaser for the film, directed by Jeymes Samuel (a.k.a. The Bullitts) and produced by Jay-Z, dropped Thursday. Majors (Da 5 Bloods, The Last Black Man in San Francisco) is joined in the cast by […]
Academy Award nominee LaKeith Stanfield has announced he’ll be taking a break from social media after issuing apologies for moderating a Clubhouse room that contained anti-Semitic rhetoric. Earlier this month, the 29-year-old Atlanta star appeared as a moderator during a bigoted discussion on Clubhouse, according to the Daily Beast, while sources confirmed he personally did not say anything that could be considered anti-Semitic. The following day, […]
For his performance as Fred Hampton in Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya has been awarded the Best Supporting Actor distinction at the 2021 Oscars. Kaluuya delivered an emotional acceptance speech, in which he thanked “the gift that is LaKeith Stanfield.” He also shouted out Hampton and the Black Panther party for showing him […]
Lakeith Stanfield put together a scene-stealing performance when he portrayed FBI informant William O’Neal in Judas and The Black Messiah. Yet, to do this, Stanfield had to explore some darker parts of himself to bring the character to life, which has now thrown off his emotional equilibrium once the production wrapped. During a recent interview with Level, Stanfield revealed that […]
