Interesting takes, I think it misses that he is and was always born to be a bit different. It seems he has found himself, and at least he has grown through his career instead of becoming a sellout. Criticism is warranted, and I appreciate someone doing it
I was watching him since Derrick Comedy. I was disappointed when he took a shot at kanye after his vulnerable post-it note thing. I feel like he chases acceptance.
People act like they don’t remember how important “authenticity” was in that era of hip hop. If you were publicly outed for being a fraud in the early 2000s, your career was over, which made way for a wave of artists that chose to be a bit more unorthodox. If Gambino would have tried to follow what was trending at the time, he would have been excommunicated from the culture for being fake.
If there is one thing I cant stand is this fake idea that "black people" can only be one way. Like there is this ghetto allegiance we all must have in order to be black. Its nonsensical on its face and the so called community will never grow until this is alleviated.
Becuase the Internet is a masterpiece. He was a great rapper. I wish he would rap again. This funkadelic shit is just not my jam. I was looking forward to his newest album but it’s just not for me. Hopefully his last album will be more of a rap album but I doubt it.
This is not code switching. Everyone is different in different circumstances. I don't trust people who are the same everywhere unless they've never been anywhere. That's an intentional decision most of the time. For black people who grew up in multiple environments, it's normal to be like a chameleon. Also, there is no such thing as acting black(if you're a black person, that is)
7:11 Time Stamp - him talking to his son at the end of his own song called "BABY BOY"....? It's TRASH. He wants people to tell him what he did was BEAUTIFUL. But he only is proud of him talking to his son because he is Black-Asian. If his son is as dark as himself with nappy hair he wouldn't have the same pride to do the gesture. I'm lying? Kanye dropped the 🎤 at one of his concerts and said, "Something just happened to my wife!" and ran offstage. Because it's the white Kim Kardashian he knows the crowd will empathize. But if his aXX was married to Glorilla??? The audience is giving the vibe of "We don't care about that short Memphis chic! Get on with the show " Black entertainers don't show adoration for their black kids and black wives. They wait until they get a non-black wife and some mixed kids.
As someone who been corny been nerdyhimself as black man, there is alot of politics behind being one as well as dragons with black or white women... usually not all the time so I see we miss true unity with that, which is also corny but people use culture in terms of words to unify different cultures and unify ourselves but it has the opposite effect just as much, so with that being said I'd usually stay out political talks of life and just do what I want, which seems what he does and I pretty much respected him for it, say guck.the gate keeping and be who he is without letting politics of life tell you what you are and should do and who you should like... it doesn't become a knock on the culture or dating women of your race until they get offended by you making your own decisions about yourself and not based on who wants to be around you not cause they like who you are, they like yo project who you should be for them
If I need yo further explain, it's basically an I don't give a fuck attitude, cause people love yo project some bullshit that had nothing to do with the original decision and I personal think alot stuff wouldn't be consider corny or anything if the person what white, we let white people determine what we do even when we call it culture!!! Stop it! The old racist white people who long died and the idiots who think they run the world or make everything great because of white... it's no better
Another thing is the point of culture is to express where you came from to others, toxic side of black culture is that we along with toxic side of all cultures do like to experiment with things outside of it, you can see it, taste it and enjoy it but you shouldn't love it just as much where you came from... people are not.like that, cultures evolve and come together somehow
Great vid. I'm glad I did not get what I expected from the title. Good Catch.......Chatlamange bleached his skin, we don't listen to him about the blackness within.
During the Drake and Kendrick beef I was thinking about Childish Gambino. I put him in the same category with Kendrick (also This is America was originally a Drake diss) I love him but I wonder if it’s because I was aware of him in community first and 3005 is always in my rotation so I’m biased.
It's funny that I only heard about his music after I was telling a friend about how I had watched Mystery Team. My friend showed me his AOTL remix, and I hopped on at his Culdesac mixtape. Do ya Like was on repeat! I've been a fan ever since.
