Childish Gambino: The Ultimate Codeswitcher 

Charlamange's take was ignorant as hell!!

Yeah the problem with this video is a direct reflection of the greater black community. Glover went on a journey. It may not have been your journey, so you may not relate but it’s his and he shared it with the world. Instead of us embracing glover and people like him, we’re always soooo quick to tell them “they’re not black enough”. He’s different and it’s okay to be different when your every other ethnicity. Allow him and others like him to grow, share, and be apart of the greater community. Pioneers don’t walk the same trails but where would we be without pioneers!

Donald represent our diversity when given a chance to be seen.

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.

It's funny no one relates to Camp and say it didn't age well. Well no shit it's written and performed by a young college student who is navigating his identity, and horny on main. That is it's strength the fact if can have these out there brag raps, with misdirected anger. On Backpackers he is using his humor to dissect what you even think hard music is and where it comes from opposed to what gets reviewed highly. All the Shine A letter home is like his true earnest attempts at love. Friggin heartbeat is the immaturity of unstable relationships. There is a reason why people come back to this album. Childish Gambino hits the zeitgeist because each album he grows up a little bit more. Because The Internet is Existentialism and transcending it, Awaken my Love is seeing everything through the first time as a father, why the funk influence is huge, since that's the music Gambino's father introduced to him, this leads to Atavist the loss of his father, and coping with the world around it. The final one will be a grand bookend hopefully. This man can get busy on a mic check out Culdesac and Royalty if you wanna really hear him spit.

Donald is mad talented. As he goes throughout his entertainment journey he's sharing and taking anyone willing to watch or listen on the journey with him. From what I can tell he can write just as good or better than standalone writers, he can act just as good as other A list actors, and he can create just as good or better than other content creators. He's like Bo Jackson of the Entertainment Industry.

I have so much to say, man. The opinions you state in this video I think need to be stated because it’s a massive part of the conversation around him & his crowd. But I think the position is exactly what creates a Childish Gambino - there’s a sort of ironic hypocrisy in us not wanting to be ‘a monolith’ but also being exclusive in what makes someone black that exists in the black dialogue that gives birth to whole communities & styles that become either Childish Gambino or everyone who feels like Charlamagne is talking about them when he calls CG white and relates. On a personal note, I think the term ‘codeswitching’ does exactly the same thing. As if there is only one code to switch into it you’re speaking to black people. In that margin is a community that is still black and still living the same existence and often in the same environments. That community still develops opinions, ideas, passions & dreams about what it means to be black and what change could or should take place in the world. What happens however is the labels like ‘corny’ blend with teenage rebellion & ‘ASIAN GIRLS EVERYWHERE, UCLA’ becomes lit in high school. ‘OK GAMBINO IS A MASTERMIND’ it was like ‘09, man, you gotta say that when you talking about the ‘corny’ 😂 that was when YOLO was revolutionary like & Earl didn’t come up with that line, that’s like the national anthem for everyone on the coastline of ‘being black’. Most importantly to me, why would you use wunderkind if you were gonna say it like that? 🤦🏾‍♂️ that just bothered me so much.

I feel like Drake is the Master Code switcher and Childish Gambino pick a great time to announce his venture back into music.

Donald conquered American entertainment and now gets to work on his own projects 🤷🏻‍♀️ that’s how I see it

because the internet era goated

his royalty mixtape is one of if not my favorite mixtape/album of all time

pretty bad take already about camp seeing as on his projects before that, he always took responsibility and didn’t victimize himself. likes like he hopes bully’s are doing well and feeling better about themselves. he also is very honest in his work which points out his immaturity, insecurities, yk flaws. so look at camp being his first studio (indie lol) album, and he’s known for concepts. look at it more so thru that lens.

19.10/To Be Hunted is an all timer

Bro listen, this analysis is so fantastic. I had a deep emotional reaction. Much respect 👏🏾

I love Gambino, can’t wait to hear his newER project

This was fantastic. Great insight. You killed it my g. 👏🏾

Mans making CONTENT 🙌🏽 s/o Ryan

Beautiful Breakdown

I really thought you were gonna shit on him the whole video lmaoo 😭 good shift. I agree

Great conclusion to this piece. VERY nice.

I know it's not popular to say but I loved Camp

Your closing words are words I hope artists and audiences will embrace.

He doesn't give up....

Great video. Keep up the amazing work!

Amazing work!!!

damn this was such an incredible video brother! wow!

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

Jack of all trades master of none.

Great video. The thesis of this video is why I think I’ve always loved Donald glover

If you promise to keep making content like this I’ll subscribe.

Wonderful breakdown

Great video!

Still everyone ignores his work in ucb college humor and derrick comedy.

There are alt/weird/"corny" Black artist who are in no way anti-Black (above beyond the internalized struggles anyone would have). Donald Glover is NOT one of them artist. That man is deeply self hating in a ways that carry through his art and create some real hard to explain away anti-Black moments, messages, and themes. Particularly against Black women. Next time lets' talk about the alt/weird/"corny" Black artist who do not have that hang up. Cause I guarantee them ppl are plentiful but of course being low key self-hating helps you get and keep a platform in this society =/ (and yes im looking at you Drake)

Great video

147 subs for this is crazy

grow. great piece.

4:27 nah, he wanted people to see him, not his skin color. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great Video

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.

what song this is twin

Crab mentality... 🤦🏿‍♂️

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yessirrrr

You critical lover you. Great video

really awesome video. whats the beat in the background?😄

Saying Camp is Corny is wild. Saying Camp aged poorly is even crazier

you got some nerve to call someone nasally lol. great writing and editing and VO though subbed

Do you trust energy, or entity? Pick.

great analysis, although I do not like the use of the word codeswitcher here

camp was fire! did have a couple bad songs but literally NOBODY has a 100% banger album

2:48 Camp definitely has some gems. It shows flashes of his musical talent. But as a Bino super fan, I can admit it is not a good record.

❤

Beautifully said :) "I'm just being who I am. From this weird ass little kid, to this ballin ass grown man"

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.

Camp was fire 🔥

Love childish gambino❤

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)

My goat

Sexual preference shouldn't dictate cultural identity

I see most people didn’t watch the entire video

good take

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.

Great video! Subscribed

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.

You forgot about his mixtape royalty

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

fyi derrick comedy is pre-youtube. >_> almost seems insulting to call them a youtube channel.

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.

Creating a self image that doesn’t revolve around one’s Blackness in relation to the (white) world is easier said than done

Gambino is a dark skin with light skin energy. I did like Atlanta a lot tho

Good to see I’m not the only one that felt his delivery was nasaly on that first album. 😂👎🏽

I’m sorry when has Glover ever code switched? Charlamange is a charlatan

I have been a Donald Glover fan since before his sketch comedy channel was famous! Dude's my icon.

The son of Kanye

I can’t really explain it but he’s like the alternate Drake

So black folks owe something to their community? Do other folks owe the same to theirs?

I love how they do these little things on these artists but the dude is talking has no Talent at all but trying to get over on somebody else Talent

Nah

That's not how you pronounce wunderkind, lol.

2 minute in and you can keep your 200 subs bruh. ain't watching this.

Terrible video. Terrible take

Dont really like his music. But atlanta is nice

That Little Foot song is straight corn. It sounds like a Lumineers B-side followed with a rap verse. It sounds like Nickelodeon music. The last verse was the best part of the song, and it wasn't even him.

He's not black tho.. he's West Indian.