Childish Gambino

oh i didn't know he was on a tv show, i don't watch tv. not sure how to turn it on tbh. why do you want to lol at bad music instead of talking about good music?

kmt @ comedy obv. no one should try to be funny, ever

who's trollin whoooooooo...and who's bein trueeeeeeee

well not everyone can do it so well without trying like you (xpost)

lol

i'm being real! the last time i was in the house by myself and i wanted to turn the tv on, i ended up...having to watch x factor on a shitty internet stream :(

i'm being real! the last time i was in the house by myself and i wanted to turn the tv on, i ended up...having to watch x factor on a shitty internet stream :(

― lex pretend, Saturday, 3 December 2011 14:36 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink

kinda lol, mostly sad

was even more sad when i first read it as x files

wait...is lex being straight-up about the comedy thing?

http://t1.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/04/91/62/400_F_4916255_j69IEjyQYzLtid954oUXC4rfltKomaSM.jpg

yeah a few months ago there was a whole revelation on some thread about lex being against the entire human pursuit of comedy

comedy is conceptually abhorrent to me

lmao

lex is right. why are we spending all this time talking about childish gambino when we could clearly talk about how insane lex is

i once dreamed of a career in comedy but i gave it up once i realized i could never create a character as funny as the lex

i'm not funny! i don't do funny

if you think you get to decide that then that probably explains the root of your problem

Is lex one of them indirect Neil Hamburger comedians

"it's funny because I probably know every hip-hop influence on that album" - a friend

so wait he's heard of obscure local chicago producer kayne west?

http://collegecandy.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/in-the-know-lead.jpg?w=600&h=360

so wait he's heard of obscure local chicago producer kayne west?

well tbf the implication was Kanye West and maybe something like KRS-One, or whatever has recently made a Pitchfork list.

KRS recently made a P4k list?????

Wow I am out of the loop.

"Alright, Gambino is a mastermind, fuck a bitch to pass the time
Mass Appeal, orange rind, smoke your green, I'm spendin' mine
The beat is witches brew, but beware this shit is potent
E. e. cummin' on her face, now that's poetry in motion
Yeah, Gambino make it work, I'm the boss move somethin'
Yeah, this cool fuckin' suits me, swag two button
Yeah, these girls be actin' crazy when they're dancin', Black Swan
I ain't fuckin' at the club, put your clothes back on
This beat is a disaster, 9/11 this track
Rappers wanna battle me, I have to mail their heads back
And my clique make that dinero, so it's time to meet the fuckers
I am runnin' this bitch, you are just a dog walker"

jesus I thought you guys were cherry picking the bad lines or something like ILX can do now and then, but holy jesus, this whole verse is almost Shaquille O'Neal level rap

this friend of mine said this was his favorite rap album of the year. like I have to seriously question the friendship now.

there are like 5 great lines there

name them, brave soul

i mean run this bitch/dog walker is fine but great?

1. Mass Appeal, orange rind, smoke your green, I'm spendin' mine
2. E. e. cummin' on her face, now that's poetry in motion
3. Yeah, this cool fuckin' suits me, swag two button
4. Yeah, these girls be actin' crazy when they're dancin', Black Swan
5. I am runnin' this bitch, you are just a dog walker"

Black Swan = generic hashtag Young Money tripe

EE cummin on her face = whose face? the beat's? Paul Barman-level one-line.

I think the bitch/dog walker one is eyerolly, the other two I don't mind.

paul barman is infinitely better than childish gambino

Mass Appeal, orange rind, smoke your green, I'm spendin' mine

wtf

9/11 this track is the worst.

nah it's not a patch on the casey anthony line

paul barman is infinitely better than childish gambino

+1

I'm not gonna pretend to be a srs hiphop person and maybe that's part of the reason I (/the rest of the tumblr whites community) approach this differently from the goon community, but pretty much my argument begins and ends w/ "imo...some of these lines are clever"

but they're not clever, they're really basic

and like actual rappers come up with funnier lines all day

I am more than willing to believe that whiney

Like if you want comedy rap, this is at least a step above like MC LARS HORRISHIT or whatever, but there's a whole school of MCs--Copywrite, High & Mighty, Apathy, Bumpy Knuckles, J-Zone, Celph Titled, Chino XL, even Joe Buddden--that do the constant hammering-away-at-punchlines thing. Sorry they're not ADORABLE and on NBC's Pomplamoose-comedy half-hour sitcom, Tumblr whites.

Seriously, any fan of this idiot download Copywrite's The High Exhaulted and get back at me

i was p into high and mighty and like, louis logic when i was in high school

i bet if i were in high school now id be into childish gambino

man it must be so cool to not be white or on the internet

lol @ me i think i was just excited to see someone mention high & mighty (xp)

I am runnin' this bitch, you are just a dog walker

this is actually the worst line of that verse. it is just so lazy and shit.

whineys community bashing itt getting me so defensive & emotional lol

let us never forget when he mentioned that he's seen a bunuel film

'god this is really boring but I can't wait to mention it online'

white tumblr's burden

'god this is really boring but I can't wait to mention it online'

The ILX company motto.

"E. e. cummin' on her face, now that's poetry in motion"

expressing appreciation of this is some shameful shit.

I will go on record as saying I like Shaq's rapping a lot better. There is at least some nostalgia factor at play.

i still want to know whose face he's talking about, since none of the lines preceding that specify a subject.

'your' face, I woulda understood.

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, December 2, 2011 1:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^this^