Childish Gambino

haven't heard much of gambino but i like this video and song.

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Good song, good video.

It's all good.

good track, i thought this comment is very ironic :"The room is WHITE where all this is going down. Because america is controlled by whites." 

Awesome.

dug his SNL performances, the second one looked like a fucking music video, really impressive for a live bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2P2qbr-_Ps

Great video, Donald Glover can do no wrong lately.

Great stuff, Atlanta second season has also been very good. I doubt his part in Solo a Star Wars Story will be his crowning achievement though.

so cool and his last album was sick, couldn't believe he did that

Never really listened to him before, but I like the new track + Atlanta is awesome.

wow, that video hits hard.  Murica

Agree the video is great. The song is decent on its own I guess. But there's no denying that Donald Glover is a talented motherfucker in many facets. 

This is America is the first track of his that I've (knowingly) listened to. I don't like the Southern-influenced crap flow and rhymes, but rhyming and flowing appear to be largely dead in a lot of new hiphop. it's a fun track overall and I like it, but I wouldn't find personal replay value in this stuff I don't think.

edit: but hey, at least the beat's more interesting than that cookiecutter 808-based shit these days

  On 5/8/2018 at 2:20 AM, usagi said:

This is America is the first track of his that I've (knowingly) listened to. I don't like the Southern-influenced crap flow and rhymes, but rhyming and flowing appear to be largely dead in a lot of new hiphop. it's a fun track overall and I like it, but I wouldn't find personal replay value in this stuff I don't think.

 

edit: but hey, at least the beat's more interesting than that cookiecutter 808-based shit these days

this one was impressive imo

theory: the majority of new hiphop is not actually hiphop but rather a conscious effort to make music that has its soul in other genres but is simply couched in the language of hiphop. e.g. Uzi makes rock, Yachty makes pop, Migos do... whatever overrated shit they do.

hiphop, as a way of doing things, influences people more widely now than hiphop in the oldschool sense of the genre. it's a style now.

hip hop is just a vocabulary at this point. it's as meaningless as rock as a classification. and old school hip hop is as dead as rock. 

didn't care much for the track or video. love atlanta, best thing on tv.

In retrospect having the song being as shallow as it is was perfect for the video. He's strongly mocking current rap here. Wish he had incorporated some fake face tattoos though.

^ lol

Never really listened to the Childish Gambino much, but that was a great video, song's not bad either but the video itself definitely outshines the actual song. There's some strong imagery and subtle messages hidden in many scenes of the video, poignant stuff.

yeah there's a lot to unpack with that video, it's incredible

That was a work of art. There are a lot of psych tricks being played in the video.

If the message is that black people are disposable and that we're too distracted by social media and all that see it, it was pretty on the nose. And a pretty tired message at that... If it was anything else, I might've missed it. Who is this video addressing anyway?

or maybe this guy's still on his "I'm not that kind of black guy" phase and addressing black on black violence, I dunno. Haven't watched Atlanta yet