If we were out of sandbox, "Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator" would be my DN right now.
Not to start this conversation yet again, but Community is pretty dire as well.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
the first line of that review is fire
― slandblox goole, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
"hashtag rap's tombstone"man, i hope so
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
u guys know you can set DNs?
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I do now.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda wanted to give that review a standing ovation at my desk
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
finally, someone has the courage to stand up to the overwhelming musical force that is childish gambino.
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/tiananmen-square/index.html
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
he's gotten good reviews and sold big numbers for someone on an indie label?
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol n/a, I thought for sure you were linking a negative review that was using Tiananmen Square as an analogy
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
the review was funny but dude is an "actor/rapper" with a stupid name that people have been mocking since he turned into a rapper. no one really likes his music. it's like zinging dr. morbius, it's kinda fun but too easy to be satisfying.
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
i guess, i don't know. he just sold 50,000 albums in one week, so some people like his music.
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
eh, I bought one of those copies and I don't really like his music
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
I'd honestly love to see the breakdown of that 50k in terms of how many people had been following his stuff via blogs and how many bought it because "oh, dude from Community. I'd hazard about 20% the former, 80% the latter.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
DJ Quik sells 15k and this guy sells 50k :(
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I bought it, not because I expected to like it, but because I figured Community was getting cancelled after this year and I wanted to throw dude some royalties
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
basically n/a's point (if he actually has one) is that the review while, funny, was pointless because nobody actually cares about childish gambino or thinks that his music is good. i think there is ample evidence that both of those things are untrue.
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
I bought because my wife asked me to when she saw it was out, she hates it more than I do.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
i don't have much of a point aside from the album's an easy target so pitchfork's zingy review doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
also i will stubbornly and steadfastly insist that no one likes his music, despite any and all evidence to the contrary
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
^^ secretly likes childish gambino
― dr. strongo, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I bought it, not because I expected to like it, but because I figured Community was getting cancelled after this year and I wanted to throw dude some royalties― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 5:58 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 5:58 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
i literally couldn't imagine a sadder post unless it concluded with falling in love with a japanese body pillow
― dealwithit.gif, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
loll
― k3vin k., Friday, 2 December 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Friday, December 2, 2011 12:22 PM (1 hour ago)
^^^
― k3vin k., Friday, 2 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Now if dude who plays Abed had a 'comedy' 'record', I'd happily throw him some bones. Childish Shitbino is gonna be fine.
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox3rf7cMnCw
never forget
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjZ0mG6BhYE
dude has a niche ready to fall back on
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
OH NOES
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
yo so like if someone - a friend of mine - liked this album kinda, this would definitely not be the thread to cop to that, right?
theoretically saying. of course.
― Mordy, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
i do wanna contribute for real tho that we were watching his recent comedy central performance and it was very poor. some of the material was funny, and we laughed a couple times. but this guy wrote on one of the tightest, funniest sitcoms of the last bunch of years, and is hilarious acting on Community, but just could not consistently put it together on the stage and maybe p4k is onto something that he's very insecure bc he really just seemed to lack confidence and experience in the standup. very nervous seeming.
― Mordy, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
i'm very interested in hearing the WTF he recorded recently
― Mordy, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
I guess we should be thankful that there was a whole writing staff on 30 Rock and not just him.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I have a good amount of empathy for him when he expresses frustration with disconnect between his experiences in "black" and "white" America since I've felt a lot of those some emotions and frustrations and it's not really something you're going to understand unless you've gone through something similar, but when he starts talking about "eating Oreos like the white girls that be blowin' me" I have to tap out
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't heard any of this dude's music, but the supposedly "terrible" lyrics that everyone is posting on this thread and in I.Co's P4k review seem kind of clever/funny IMO.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
you should hear the delivery, it's not the greatest
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
DJ Quik sells 15k and this guy sells 50k :(― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, December 2, 2011
qft
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
shocking developments today as a person who is not famous sells fewer albums than a person who is somewhat famous
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh cmon, you know exactly what the point is there and it's not that.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
um, DJ Quik is pretty famous, arguably more famous with ppl who buy rap albums than Donald Glover
the real uncovered shocker here is "ppl who don't normally buy rap albums buy a terrible one"
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
I have only heard one of his songs via the radio and the beat was pretty annoying and I'm not gonna listen to anything else
but imo a lot of these lines are more clever than lines serious hiphop ppl quote as great
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
"ppl who don't normally buy rap albums buy a terrible one"
yeah this is the part I was befuddled by
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to this again and "Outside" is actually fine. Every other song has at least one "OH HELL NO *stops playback*" moment in it, though.
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
this albums looks like the musical equivalent of someone who says "LOL" in real life conversation
― Cunga, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
so... it looks like the musical equivalent of a teenager?
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, December 2, 2011 9:51 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
argh why would this be befuddling? people aren't buying this because it's a rap album they're buying it because they like donald glover
― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
i have friends who literally dont ask me about any rap besides Childish Gambino
― HUSTLA DA =:3 (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
they're white btw
I dunno in my world of tumblr whites its sad that there are more people into Donald Glover (just in general) than there are DJ Quik I mean wtf
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link