Anyone else hear the new Childish Gambino record?

Last year I put out a call for the Internet to find me one Childish Gambino fan who wasn't also a Community fan. And a lot of people on Twitter tried, or thought they knew an exception, but ultimately not one could do it; the overlap between the two fanbases was 100%.

Obviously that's going to change now, but for the longest time it drove me nuts that the rap press treated this guy like a real rap act when clearly he was a TV tie-in. It would be like treating The Simpsons as an interesting musical sensation because Simpsons Sing the Blues sold some copies.

that might've been just your twitter circle, though. he definitely had music fans who've never seen the show, even before the last album.

as much as i'm not a fan, the tv tie-in thing is unfair. it's not like he was making rap songs about Community.

seems way harder for actors to get taken seriously as musicians than vice versa.

xxp I'm sure it was an age thing; if I followed more college sophomores one of them probably would have known some quiet kid in the dorm with a hard drive full of rap but no TV. But it was (and remains) silly the way some rap sites act like this guy's preexisting celebrity and built-in fanbase from the most cultishly adored show on television has nothing to do with his following

Listening to Because the Internet for the first time right now, and it's a marked improvement over the last time I heard him doing this.

seems way harder for actors to get taken seriously as musicians than vice versa.

usually that's true, but it's different when you're a vaguely comic rapper rapping about the same geeky subject matter as the TV show you star in

Like, I personally hear Troy Barnes trying on a rap guise as a gag, but to someone who's never watched Community, this is good enough to be a legit rap album.

as much as i'm not a fan, the tv tie-in thing is unfair. it's not like he was making rap songs about Community.

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree w/ this, although it is funny that most of his stuff is produced by the Swedish dude who composes background music for Community

Hugh Laurie doesn't sing blues songs about ethically challenged doctors, either, but that doesn't mean 95% of the crowd at his show didn't watch House

But it was (and remains) silly the way some rap sites act like this guy's preexisting celebrity and built-in fanbase from the most cultishly adored show on television has nothing to do with his following

ok, that makes sense.

although it is funny that most of his stuff is produced by the Swedish dude who composes background music for Community

totally, and that dude should be the real star here.

Hugh Laurie doesn't sing blues songs about ethically challenged doctors, either, but that doesn't mean 95% of the crowd at his show didn't watch House

presumably you mean "at his show in America" here

Haha, my bad, didn't mean to insult the U.K. and Jeeves and Wooster fans around the world, sorry about that

is this album better or worse than Camp? Because that one was god-awful.

The half of it I listened to today was better than Camp imo.

(way better known in .au for Blackadder and A Bit Of than as an inappropriate Bertram [Ionicus or gtfo imo])

Did not listen to Childish's last 6 years of output, however have just had a listen to these fantastic two new tracks Redbone and Me and Your Mama.

Loving the Pink Floyd and Funkadelic vibes

Redbone is definitely 2016's best Prince track.

new album through the first four tracks a psych-funk groove for sure

I think it's great - ignore the haters who wanted a trap album. I think it's a bold move and am happy to see him stretch himself as an artist, too.

Haven't looked at the credits or anything, but curious to see who may have played on it/produced some of it.

Love Questlove's instagram post about it, too https://www.instagram.com/p/BNgjtqdBrnE/?taken-by=questlove

I'm happy that this isn't a trap album, just a little befuddled at the panegyrics this has been met with on some «whoah! live instrumentation! how rare!» ish. It's pleasant enough to listen to, but nothing I feel a particular urge to put on.

I don't like it very much AND I'm glad it wasn't trap. Redbone is fucking amazing, though.

It's pleasant enough to listen to

I... don't know if I'd go that far. That voice could peel wallpaper.

In what world did this guy think he had the voice or musical skillset to pull off a Bilal album?

i keep hearing good things abt this but super skeptical i hate this guy's music

it's kept me from watching Atlanta which is probably to my detriment

tbh half of it is all the non-rap fans i know who keep bigging up him like "i don't usually listen to rap but childish gambino is great" barf

I'm enjoying it but agree that it may not be panegyric worthy. Redbone is a jam.

Ha, ironically, I'll guess your non-rap fan circle will probably be disappointed he doesn't rap on this.

Atlanta is a terrific show, you should totally watch - nothing to do with Childish Gambino, either. Glover doesn't even play the rapper in the show. He is a better actor than he is anything else, to be fair.

I tolerated then grew to hate Camp and avoided everything else he did. The first track on "Awaken, My Love!" is really, REALLY good.

to me it feels as if he's always an actor. Here he's trying to portray a funk gawd.

LOL - https://medium.com/@marcuskdowling/childish-gambinos-new-album-is-a-deplorable-act-of-treason-c80e3f7cc062#.cfp24cqwt

Now I really will listen to it.

what the hell is that reviewer on

I mean, I turned the album off by about track 7 because I'd gotten the point and it was boring me but that reaction seems like it's fueled by something more pharmaceutical than righteous indignation.

Donald Glover is releasing Awaken, My Love in the midst of his most critically-acclaimed and commercially successful period as a creative

i swear to everyone i will never use "creative" as a noun

what the hell is that reviewer on

Hottakeaminiphen

^^^ I am not getting over this any time soon

Atlanta's incredible and this album's better than it has any right to be. Year Of The Glover.

just hearing this, and so far, it's basically straight up P-Funk ripping, with some slight Prince in there. Done really well/accurately mind you, but also reminds me of that other great P-Funk ripper, Lenny Kravitz, and as such, is hard to get really into

"redbone," does it sample connan mockasin? feels like it but i can't identify

ok it's not quite the same just similar. this is the tune i was thinking of, "caramel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCz7zqfvP4

pretty close

tour w/ Rae Sremmurd.

i know Glover is getting pretty famous but i guess i'm surprised Childish Gambino can play arenas, even with Rae Sremmurd opening. or am i underestimating him? or do these venues include a post-Solo bump?

09-06 Atlanta, GA - Infinite Energy Arena
09-08 Chicago, IL - United Center
09-10 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre
09-12 Boston, MA - TD Garden
09-14 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
09-18 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
09-19 Washington, DC - Capital One Arena
09-22 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
09-23 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
09-26 Inglewood, CA - The Forum
09-27 Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
09-29 Seattle, WA - KeyArena
09-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena

That new video

...is really good. The SNL episode was better than average too.

i thought it was a really bad SNL episode actually, but his performances were good

childish gambino is karmin without the blackface

I still can't believe Redbone made it into the top 77 of our 2017 songs poll

I can, because it's fuckin good

Here's what showed up on my screen as soon as the last moments of the video ended:

https://i.imgur.com/USzSBZJ.png

The new song/video are 100% fire

^^^

childish gambino is karmin without the blackface

― carles danger mous (s.clover), Sunday, May 6, 2018 8:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh care to expand on that

I don't know, but it's a good track.

Great track that happens to have the same flow, same subject matter and strikingly similarly stripped down percussive trap beat with vocal chants.

Either way the artist seems to be cool with it so may as well leave it at that.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bkc_rJJg27q/?hl=en&taken-by=jaseharley

I feel like Weird Al needs to make a parody of 'This is America' (partly because the music video would be great).
What would it be titled?

I feel like he doesn't

i feel like he needn't make any more music ever again but i realize i'm in the minority on that one

This is Antarctica.

Love this is America

Love this is America Style

new video is neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B9Fk_SgI0

The aesthetic is kinda simpsonswave.

track really nails the sound it's evidently aiming for but the song could be better

guy rly does have a messiah complex but i liked the cheerfully slight guava island: v deliberate leftwing fable, indulgently pretty (loved the aspect and the fake? 16mm grain, but the rounded edges were a bit much), funny, short, casually zero white people. rihanna is underused i guess but i kind of admired the willingness to underuse rihanna. chops provided by nonso anozie, whom i recognized immediately but couldn't place-- he's done lear and othello so naturally it turned out what i'd seen him in is a bit part in s1 game of thrones. anyway, just nice to watch something tropical.

the first article i found while googling around to figure out if it was actually shot on 16 was an all-hands-on-deck DONALD GLOVER DOESN'T UNDERSTAND CAPITALISM. CAPITALISM HAS LIFTED BILLIONS OUT OF POVERTY. IN 1900 THE AVERAGE WAGE WAS ONLY $3. AS JONAH GOLDBERG WRITES IN "THE DECLINE OF THE WEST", etc., so well done there.

it's Murai, right? he does so much digital grading on his other stuff that I'd assume the same here. 16mm instagram filter.

yeah. too bad imo.

Apparently Donald Glover Presents was streamed this weekend. I haven't heard it yet, anyone have some thoughts?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donald-glover-surprise-release-new-album-967548/

That article is out of date, as the stream apparently disappeared later in the day.

It’s back up. Listening now. It’s .... really fucking good?

This is amazing. One of the best records of the year on first listen, and quite the zeitgeist record at that.

finally hearing this and it is great. my fav stuff from this guy yet for sure.

I keep hearing Redbone in public and it's always a pleasure. Feels like it has really lasted beyond its time and become a classic

Me too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0drevGOgA

nothing exemplifies the vapid posturing of a lot of “creative” types during the trump era better than childish gambino dropping this and then joining the andrew yang campaign the following year https://t.co/06pLCPZWwm

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