Childish Gambino

there's something about the rhythm of it that's off to me. i get the same vibe from parks and rec and happy endings and a lot of other current shows. the 30 rock rhythm on +8 or something.

relatedly/unrelatedly i fell really hard for the drake album while ilx was down

community has a fabulous rythm & density of jokes imo but i hate 30 rock and parks & rec

what, we don't like auto-tune the news around here

parks and rec makes me strangely angry, like i get really resentful that there arent any jokes [lazy childish gambino zing]

parks and rec makes me strangely angry because it's the third iteration of the office and i think we've all had enough at this point

community is television for people who frame their Mensa membership cards but still eat boogers

dying

lol

Shit like this makes my fucking skin crawl:

"If there was any doubt that Community was one of the smartest half-hour comedies to ever air on network television, allow us to enter this into evidence...."

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/community-beetlejuice-easter-egg/

Might as well replace "Community" with "xkcd" and "comedies" with "web comics" if that's your definition of smart. Oh, sigh, why couldn't Buñuel muster such droll commentary when he did Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie?

An endless string of meta-commentary and audience-aggrandizing patter was so **SMART** when it was called <i>Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back</i>. Get bent.

you know we have a community thread

haha i prefer this guy to whiney

idg the using html tags thing

it's meta

And putting some imaginary line in the sand between this cutesy, hyper-pop-culturey, clever-qua-clever shitcom and the Twitter raps of Childish Gambino is like pretending Jackass didn't spawn the Steve-O rap album

discreet charm of the bbcode

what about arrested development, do you have a rant about that

I hear there's a movie coming out

http://skreened.com/render-product/e/w/a/ewawenekyfqmmowxcaax/ham-squad.american-apparel-unisex-fitted-tee.white.w760h760.jpg

arrested development sucked/sucks shit too, but i dont need to make longwinded hipster refs to express that.

i have to say the buñuel reference convinced me its not whiney

rereading this p4k article & wondering if maybe childish gambino doesn't lack self awareness per se but just isn't up to the minute on rap trends? i get the feeling that we're in a whineyesque bubble here, what was for the past two years a trickle of stereogum updates (Beyonce Ass Moved by Grizzly Bear Concert) has only really become a tide circa somewhere between mbdtf & take care. not sure how perceptible the trends ian cohen &c (myself incl) are distinctly aware of are on a macro/college campus level

― wil smif, Saturday, 3 December 2011 05:17 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

well part of the problem is that he seems to have not been keeping up with rap trends for the past decade, or that because he is sooooo indie, he only has a handful of rap records and doesn't know what the shit his record should sound like in 2011.

nah come on the buñuel ref is classic whiney

"this seems highbrow enough to make my point, just hope no one actually calls me out on the specifics"

yeah theres fact that it doesnt make a tonne of sense in context but it seemed a v unwhiney ref idk

mostly i'm just lol'ing at the thou protestest too muchest from one of the four or five ilx posters with one of the most recognizable sentence-making styles of all-time.

buñuel more like poo-nuel

just occurred to me that a crispin glover would likely be as good a rapper as childish gambino, but danny glover would likely be better

/too old for this shit

btw, the last autotune the news skit was released in 2010; all the cool kids are dogpiling pompletune the mousse

forks just figured that i'd give you a heads up that i'm going to allow you to ridicule me for at least a year when the 9 minute riff raff sodmg youtube freestyle is on my 2011 p&j ballot

s'all good fam
you can take the kid off the blog but you can't take the blog out the kid

in many ways jordan, i like to think of myself as the jaz to your hova
the kool keith to your gambino as it were

smanging the replay button

lol is this the first youtube-comment-based meme on ilx?

i recognized Al in this thread instantly. it was pretty incredible. all for funny posts too

i have given up on the new display name thing because i feel so dense not being 100% sure who will smif or joey joe joe junior shabadoo is

i dont know will smif obv im d33j

oh ok

lol cld tell deej from a mile off

deej was somewhat obvious but not whiney-level undeniable

just occurred to me that a crispin glover would likely be as good a rapper as childish gambino, but danny glover would likely be better

idk have you heard "Auto Manipulator"?

http://www.mediafire.com/?n654nvvsps5w3rj

NB It's not a good song

Though I don't think it's trying to be.

i don't understand why this artist is apparently the only one people want to discuss in the sandbox?

258 new answers and every other thread is tumbleweed

because the only other ilx baiting record is by a dude already discussed to the point of having nothing interesting to say, whose record was made dull by eminem

feel free to start all the me'shell ndegeocello threads you want bro

that doesn't really answer the qn. why do you want to talk about this guy so much?

i started an entire r&b thread and no one posted in it!