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= Lance Markeith = Lance Markeith Felton is an American actor, rapper and playwright better known as Lance Markeith. He is known for his involvement in artist development and training for theatre, film and music. He began recording at the age of sixteen years old, and released his first full-length project, FREELANCE May 5, 2023. He is the founder and President of Motion Picture Records and works as the Resident Playwright for Stageworks Theatre.

Lance Markeith is originally from Tuscaloosa, AL grew up in Tampa Bay, Florida. He credits the “Jook-City” sound and his southern roots as the influences to his music. He also credits, Bronx native, DJ I AM, for introducing him to fundamentals of Hip-Hop (B-boying, DJ’ing etc.). He began performing as an acting major at Howard W. Blake High School starring in productions for the school and Christian production company Bles’d Productions. He began his professional career as the Resident Playwright at Stageworks Theatre, where he has written Central Avenue Leadership Legacies, the Black Actor’s Almanac and Life, Liberty and the Pursuit!

Early Life and Childhood
Lance Markeith Felton was born in Tuscaloosa, AL raised in Tampa, FL. He grew up with his mother, a middle school math teacher, and his younger brother. He attended Howard W. Blake, an arts magnet school, where he developed his skills as a rapper and actor. He began rapping at age 5 and hosting talent shows at age 13. He later went to Florida State University where he studied as a BFA Acting Program at, studying abroad in London before being dismissed. He has later stated in his 30 Hours, it was due to discrimination. He raps:

I was tryna give ni****s roles they never had

Cameron wasn't with it nah the school ain't front me the bag…

I'm saying you couldn't front a n***a like me 30 Hours

To finish my degree, f*** it they just wanted to finish me

Career
College and Mixtape Era

While in college, he began an extensive music campaign releasing what would become a series of phone recordings that highlighted his pure hunger and passion for the craft of rapping and freestyling. This would later to culminate into his first full-length release Pineapple Expression which was still under the vein of freestyle, experimentation. This release garnered him success as a rap artist in the Tallahassee music scene as he began to perform in showcases and stage plays.

In his junior year, he planned to release a project entitled Foreign Cities, Country Manners after his study abroad program in London. He then changed the title and direction of this project with his release of Da Jugg: American Hatred, a gritty look at how self-indulgent our culture was becoming at the election of Donald Trump and the 2016 campaign.

Motion Picture Records and FREELANCE (and acting career)

He started working at Stageworks Theatre as the Director of Audience Services and would later go on to become the Resident Playwright where he wrote Central Avenue Leadership a black history special discussing Tampa Black History that toured through the Hillsborough County public schools. While studying playwrighting and stage production, Markeith released FREELANCE after curating content released on social for over two years.

FREELANCE was released May 5, 2023 with beats leased from Youtube artists with mixing and mastering done in-house with the Motion Picture Records producers JohnVell Sound and Outlawed Beats. Markeith promoted the production album for two years on his content series “Hunger Pains” where he would rap one-take songs online.

FREELANCE, Mixtape Era, Acting Career

Discography


 * Pineapple Expression


 * Da Jugg: American Hatred


 * Walkman Series

Filmography


 * I Saw Her Today


 * Fish Out of Water


 * Chronos


 * Devil Came Down to Georgia


 * Wolf Spirit