Childish Gambino

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^

yeah I think that one of the problems w/ the anti-gambino arguments ive read (which i more or less completely agree w/) is that they seem to dismiss the legitimacy of that perspective completely when it's not the rap game (per se) where 'weird' people of color who identify w/ CG might have it hard ... its HIGH SCHOOL.

of course, recognizing that he has a legit perspective & making worthwhile music are two angles that may or may not overlap

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.

I have really been trying to let this go but I can't; fuck this abhorrent, disgusting viewpoint. Don't tell people what their shit is supposed to sound like.

i think most people here are totally fine with rap records with an insular or outdated aesthetic from people aren't tapped into 'what's popping in 2011' but if the lyrics are constantly positioning the artist as a breath of fresh air from what's mainstream right now then it kind of behooves the artist to know about what they're positioning themselves as an alternative to

it's like shitty alt-rock bands that were still all defensively "sorry we're not like LIMP BIZKIT" five years after bizkit's last hit

'but if the lyrics are constantly positioning the artist as a breath of fresh air'

surely the first rapper to try this

oh i make fun of other rappers that do this too -- drake sneering "A LOT OF Y'ALL SOUNDING LIKE LAST YEAR" over a 808s & heartbreak knockoff in 2009 was classic

Criticizing someone for acting like they are revolutionary when they sound exactly like everyone else around them is one thing; a hoy hoy's statement probably meant that, but it isn't what it actually said.

is 'what he is currently saying is not 100% true' really a tool w/ which you can critique rap music.

like if he was rapping about how his flow is pretty lol and he's bringing nothing new to the game and his punchlines aren't funny - would that improve this music

also, don't answer that

well he does rap about how people THINK he's wack like that

would it be okay with everyone if i just edit every message on this thread to "this dude sucks" and then lock thread?

^ thinks 'Texts from Bennett' is funny

Ok al's limp bizkit thing was more otm of what i was trying to say. But seriously, trying to act like some sort of refreshing voice and that you know more about the genre when you sound generic and dont know whut yr doing is just going to make you look like a twat.

i bet jon/via/chi would find Childish Gambino a refreshing voice in hip-hop

c'mon dude total out-of-context pointless picking on somebody who's not even here (probably BECAUSE he was feeling picked on, whether justified or not) is beyond the pale for even you

I owe him at least a dozen pointless attacks for all the times he was shitting on me in a place where I could rack up suggbans for responding to his dumb bullshit

"beyond the pale for even you"

A high and mighty stance from a dude who spent his Sunday poking deej with a stick

regional stick