I’m a fan.
ban Johnny Fever
I watched his stand up. It was not funny.
Only thing worth the time was a Tracy Morgan story, but you know, that is more because of Tracy than Glover.
he is apparently every tumblr girl’s dreamboat
so obviously i hate him
lol
the sultan of swag
the kolossus of klout (the kolossus of klout)
THE CHILDISH GAMBINO
“Freaks and Geeks” was actually alright, in a kinda lol @ nerdy guy trying to be Weezy way, but I heard Camp and good god is it awful. Like every other bar has a tumblr reference and songs are full of lines about how he doesn’t brag about his Emmy. I love the dude on Community and find his stand-up to be decent, but please lord do not cancel his show so he has more time for this.
Still not as ridiculous as that Drake picture thread.
that is what is blowing my mind
he’s really hot and he’s funny on community but he sux at rapping.
<—tumblr girl
my manez
and with one picture i immediately love him
otttm
The only rap-related albums I noticed in Paste website’s recently released list of their fave 2011 albums:
35. Childish Gambino – Camp
48. Drake – Take Care
http://stereogum.com/890842/pastes-top-50-albums-of-2011/list/
Funny stuff. Those pasty folks love their Bon Iver more of course.
I’m not going to go to bat for Glover because let’s face it, a large amount (if not all) of his rap persona is tied up in being as corny as humanly possible. I really like the “Bonfire” video, though.
I just remembered that his record features an ILM baiting line, “the only black guy at a Sufjan concert”.
So tempted to liveblog this record, “my name’s not Mumford, I ain’t trying to have sons”.
DO IT
“my name’s not Mumford, I ain’t trying to have sons”
Hmm. Ready the guillotine.
The only rap-related albums I noticed in Paste website’s recently released list of their fave 2011 albums:
35. Childish Gambino – Camp
48. Drake – Take Care
http://stereogum.com/890842/pastes-top-50-albums-of-2011/list/
Funny stuff. Those pasty folks love their Bon Iver more of course.
― Another Suburbanite, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
bon iver bangs harder than drake or gambino
this guy is complete horseshit
hi m@tt!!
dude is terrible, yes, and I am starting to regret impulse-buying his album in a fit of contrarianism... but he’s still less annoying to me than Drake
I think the worst of both worlds is that two minute interlude thing on Camp where Glover does his best to channel Drake by singing over a string section while whining.
Love him on Community, listened to this once and couldn’t get through it. First couple of tracks were alright but really I lost interest when I realised he wasn’t attempting to be the new Will Smith.
hey hoos :)
I love the dude on Community and find his stand-up to be decent, but please lord do not cancel his show so he has more time for this.
My sentiments exactly. I really love him on Community so I wanted to like this, but it is just bad.
he’s really hot and he’s funny on community but he sux at rapping.
― furnace mane, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
Plus, he has all of the rape-y punchlines of Tyler, the Creator, except more obnoxious. Taking shots at some girl on Tumblr who called your use of rape jokes rape-y is NAGL.
^^ that’s...disappointing to hear about
“that well-spoken token”
he’s really really terrible but if there isn’t already there’s gonna be an infinite feedback loop of PEOPLE SAY I’M TERRIBLE, I’M GONNA RAP ABOUT IT -> man, this guy is fucking terrible -> PEOPLE SAY I’M TERRIBLE, I’M GONNA RAP ABOUT IT
i think the solution here is for everyone to stop watching/caring about COMMUNITY. i’m sorry, but it has to be done for the greater good of the nation.
wait he has a 75 on metacritic, he should stfu
if xxl says this about you — Taken on the whole, Camp is full of top-tier lyricism, honesty, uncertainty and triumph. — then you no longer get to complain about people telling you not to rap because you’re a nerd or w/e
it’s weird to me that for being a comedian, his music is incredibly humorless. like, i’m not saying he needs to be doing weird al shit, but his self-crucifixion complex is so off-putting. like, his music isn’t even as funny as das racist, let alone, like, ludacris (at least when he was good)
is Childish Gambino the dumbest name for an mc yet
btw if u guys didn’t know—he got “childish gambino” from an internet wu tang name generator
First couple of tracks were alright but really I lost interest when I realised he wasn’t attempting to be the new Will Smith.
Will Smith don’t gotta tumbl to sell records
Well I do
So fuck you and fuck your mouth too
he’s really really terrible but if there isn’t already there’s gonna be an infinite feedback loop of PEOPLE SAY I’M TERRIBLE, I’M GONNA RAP ABOUT IT -> man, this guy is fucking terrible -> PEOPLE SAY I’M TERRIBLE, I’M GONNA RAP ABOUT IT
― v-shasty, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
have you noticed how every 5 star grammy-winning kanye west album is full of constant references to how people dare criticize him and try to stop his greatness?
i used to call childish gambino the new ‘eddie murphy’s music career’ but on the real this shit isn’t even as good as “party all the time”
at least kanye has been publicly vilified twice by people that like watch the view
“my name’s not Mumford, I ain’t trying to have sons”
Hmm. Ready the guillotine.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
lol
seriously tho fuck this guy
Busy getting brain like Krang
cccccccummm in myyy mooooooouttttthhhhh
he gives me goosebumps...R.L. STINE!!!
strip off that caridgan im hard again like the last level of ninja gaiden
sd her name was jenny sd shed show me hers i showed her my emmy
late nite momofuku grab the last pork bun and done we won
the right to bare arms, gold charms, lace stockings
nerd rappers feast on asian girls and coriander hot wings
This nerd shit has to go, it’s a disease. I think a lot of people feel this way, but they are scared to admit it. I’m not scared to admit it. I know I might disappoint a chosen few and lose some fans, but if that what it takes to get to the bigger cause, then I’m with it. I honestly feel in my heart, FUCK THIS NERD SHIT!!
hold up forks doesn’t like this dude?
i know you have a low opinion of my sense of taste kev but seriously come the fuck on
haha i’m just messing with u
ilx stands united on this one
i was totally getting incensed there btw
is Childish Gambino the dumbest name for an mc yet
― good webinar (ha ha I’m having a fantasy), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 23:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
rip big pooh, heaven needed to wikipedia little brother every now and again to see what happened
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapper_Big_Pooh
wld have been terrific for the jimmy wales meme fyi
it’s the having to put “Rapper” in front of the name that really makes it awful imo
late nite momofuku grab the last pork bun and done we won
i can get w this
haha well i mean
i go hard in the paint like i’m fucking on her menstrual
can we agree this guy is worse than mac miller now? consider this my entry in the inevitable “worst excuse for wordplay in a childish gambino song” poll
i’m a bit ashamed to say i knew this line from memory, this guy gets a lot of play in the chilli household
broken link
pullin no punches
all i want to do anymore is write fake childish gambino songs
who teh fuck cares
i care
that last paragraph is fire
ts: childish gambino v. mickey avalon
Now I actually want to hear his Pitchfork retorts because you just fuckin’ know this guy’s been waiting for them to review his shit for months.
i’ve never heard this guy’s music or watched that show but the likelihood of me doing either after reading that review is now close to zero. a textbook hardsonning.
That review is really OTM
I would still rather listen to this than Dranke
(who is a German Drake impersonator)
i’ve never heard this guy’s music or watched that show but the likelihood of me doing either after reading that review is now close to zero.
To be fair, his work on Community would give you absolutely no clue that he is also a terrible, rape-y rapper. I wouldn’t condemn the show for his shitty vanity project.
rather listen to this than Dranke
― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:57 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
(who is a German Drake impersonator)
― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:58 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
ty for this joke
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.
the first line of that review is fire
“hashtag rap’s tombstone”
man, i hope so
u guys know you can set DNs?
I do now.
i kinda wanted to give that review a standing ovation at my desk
finally, someone has the courage to stand up to the overwhelming musical force that is childish gambino.
he’s gotten good reviews and sold big numbers for someone on an indie label?
lol n/a, I thought for sure you were linking a negative review that was using Tiananmen Square as an analogy
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.
i guess, i don’t know. he just sold 50,000 albums in one week, so some people like his music.
eh, I bought one of those copies and I don’t really like his music
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.
DJ Quik sells 15k and this guy sells 50k :(
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
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.
I bought because my wife asked me to when she saw it was out, she hates it more than I do.
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
i didn’t know about humble brag as a twitter thing until his post, but i’ve since looked it up and become just a little more misanthropic
Listing all the things you don’t like and ascribing them all to some fictional demographic you’ve created in your head to feel better about your own tastes is nagl, fyi.
aw
I mean, I’ll give you videogum comments and @humblebrag as generally terrible things, but I draw the line at lumping Scharpling and WTF in with those things.
feeling like Lamp and fartz could help me finally steer this board into a better direction
i’m not even sure that @humblebrag is the terrible thing about humblebrag—it’s just curating terrible human things
*fartz*
I honest to God don’t mean this as a troll at all except for 100%, but at one point I also had a whole thing about how overly-enthusiastic appreciation of P&R and Community reflected the fundamental loathsomeness of AV Club reader/Videogum commenter/comedy podcast listener/@humblebrag follower/Louie screencap reblogger/bacon vodka infuser/Tom Scharpling music video enjoyer culture and then I got a job where they wouldn’t let me work from home every day
― fartz, Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:21 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
this should really be redone in the style of
The bacon vodka infuser, the onion AV club reader...
lol I at least kinda like most of those things given a healthy amount of distance from the internet and remove from functioning hikikomorism
AV Club reader/Videogum commenter/comedy podcast listener/@humblebrag follower/Louie screencap reblogger/bacon vodka infuser/Tom Scharpling music video enjoyer
comedy mustache appreciator, Arrested Development movie Facebook petitioner, RapGenius.com editor...
lol the rapgenius.com founder followed me on twitter the other day
Fleet Foxes vinyl buyer
“I’m calling my next band Crystal Deer Wolf” joke teller
the craft brew drinker, the ironic ’80s pop song karaoke singer
@humblebrag is done by Harris from Animal Control fyi ppl who don’t know
the craft brew drinker, the ironic ’80s pop song karaoke singer
― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
was waiting for someone to do this : D
it’s so weird when i see people from outside the pnw treat drinking microbrews as some hipster thing instead of something that all guys in all demographics do. also referring to them as “craft beers”.
^ like a kiln
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol at this
it’s so weird when i see people from outside the pnw treat drinking microbrews as some hipster thing instead of something that all guys in all demographics do. also referring to them as “craft beers”.
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Monday, December 12, 2011 12:17 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
wait drinking decent beer is a hipster thing now? not buying it
“Hipsters drink Pabst!” “Hipsters Drink Micro!!” Nobody Has Any Idea What They’re Talking About!!!“ THE INTRNT!
it’s so weird when i see people from outside the pnw treat drinking microbrews as some hipster thing instead of something that all guys in all demographics do. also referring to them as “craft beers”.
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Monday, December 12, 2011 1:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
#humblebrag
Community’s Donald Glover chats with Marc about the Confederate South, black nerds, Spider-man, Tracy Morgan, Jehovah’s Witnesses, foster kids, and Childish Gambino.
Yeah, let’s keep steering this back to the days when we were all on the same side of hating Childish Gambino.
feel like microbrews are like skinny jeans or the arcade fire or something...there was a point when that mighta been a hipster reference point but today I can totally see a frat dude in skinny jeans w/ a local beer rocking out to the arcade fire.
wow i just heard this and oh shit i don’t like it
I got a girl on my arm dude, show respect
Something crazy, an Asian, Virginia Tech
She too fine
I do dimes
Something crazy, an Asian, Virginia Tech
haha is this real?
Sadly, yes.
i dont think even iatee could defend that line.
I don’t actually like this guy I was just bored the other day
solitary posts that effortlessly sum up ilx
today i overheard 2 people talking about a Community joke (the ‘room temperature’ room) and one of them was a 60-year-old CEO and in the back of my mine i was thinking WAIT YOU DON’T FIT THE TUMBLR WHITE PROFILE
mine=mind
Pretty sure that dude is just a TV watcher and not the shrill idiot loudmouth HOW DAR U CANCEL SMARTEST SHOW ON TELEVISION OK TIME TO GO TO SANTACON ppl that are the most vocal about being community fans
wow is Santacon a tumblr whites thing now too?
game done changed
only 100 people watched community...but they all started tumblrs
i literally cant imagine what other type of person would be into santacon besides TWs
whiney the underlying point that you will never get is that most people watching (or quoting or talking about) any given show are just TV watchers and not part of an oppressively obnoxious cultural force
is that how you sleep at night?
what is 1 santacon?
it’s an event where people who bought whiney’s book at urban outfitters put on santa hats
You’re destroying whiney’s carefully cultivated narratives that help him sleep better at night, ship.
whiney knows way too much and drops way too many references to idk—hipster culture?—to somehow claim he’s exempt
i once started a tumblr (and after a month forgot about updating it) and enjoy community.
i take depression pills.
three things most probably related.
shipley you’re dumber than a Childish Gambino fan if you think that i believe literally EVERY community watcher is a comedy-mustache-wearing lolcat-trading fleet-foxes-jackin dipshit; but they are certainly the loudest and most shrill audience, so I’ll continue to lump your dumb ass with them because it’s hilar
whiney knows way too much and drops way too many references to idk—hipster culture?—to somehow claim he’s exempt
― Mordy, Monday, December 12, 2011 4:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
you’re thinking of deej
fleet-foxes-jackin = they are masturbating while listening to the fleet foxes, or they’re stealing the fleet foxes’ stuff for their own fleet fox style bands?
i literally cant imagine what other type of person would be into santacon besides TWs
was more an expression of surprise at how widespread/well known santacon is now, that’s all. also santacon predates tumblr by quite a bit so it’s just weird to me to see those two things lumped together. but whatever, keep fightin the good fight whiney!
xp
it’s all good, dude, i can deal with having my sense of humor attacked by people who say “hilar”
In further “2 much time spent decaying in front of laptop” news, definitely (“deffo”) thought ‘Santacon’ was in some way like ‘shotacon’ for a sec
santacon is kingfish status, I imagined tumblr whites skewing younger
yeah you should’ve switched out santacon with “rally to restore sanity” imo
either way whiney is like MJ in 96 itt
“Microbrew(ery)” is a term that refers only to the production capacity. “Craft” is more about the brewer’s approach to how the beer is made. Obviously there’s a lot of overlap — most craft beers come from what are technically microbreweries — but the terms aren’t exactly synonymous. (Some parallels with “indie,” probably.)
Anyway, I’m like a week late to this thread, and I still haven’t heard any Childish Gambino — though I did randomly see last week’s musical episode of Community — but I wanted to respond to this:
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.
This makes it sound like people are deliberately choosing Childish Gambino over those other acts. The fact that Glover is on TV doesn’t make him better, but it does make him a million times more visible. Most people really don’t want to spend a lot of time digging for music they might like, so the guy who’s on a network sitcom has a distinct advantage. None of this is Glover’s fault. And none of his fans are claiming that he’s better than a dozen rappers they’ve never heard of.
should team up with the guy from the Better Off Ted sitcom.
haha jesus i love Better Off Ted so this is something else for me to feel horribly conflicted about
the epidemic of actors and show biz types deciding to be rappers is going to be so much more awful in the long term than Dog Star or The Return of Bruno ever was
the epidemic of actors and show biz types deciding to be rappers is going to be so much more awful in the long term than Dog Star or The Return of Bruno ever was
dunno what metric yr going by here tbh
“Microbrew(ery)” is a term that refers only to the production capacity. “Craft” is more about the brewer’s approach to how the beer is made. Obviously there’s a lot of overlap — most craft beers come from what are technically microbreweries — but the terms aren’t exactly synonymous. (Some parallels with “indie,” probably.)
― jaymc, Monday, December 12, 2011 2:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
I’m just saying I’ve never heard anyone in the NW ever use the phrase “craft beer”.
feel like microbrews are like skinny jeans or the arcade fire or something...there was a point when that mighta been a hipster reference point but today I can totally see a frat dude in skinny jeans w/ a local beer rocking out to the arcade fire.
― iatee, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:54 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
If that moment happened around here, it happened by like 1992 at the very latest.
whiney knows way too much and drops way too many references to idk—hipster culture?—to somehow claim he’s exempt
― Mordy, Monday, December 12, 2011 4:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
you’re thinking of deej
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, December 12, 2011 3:08 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
this is more true, whiney is HOPING you’ll say he’s not exempt
And none of his fans are claiming that he’s better than a dozen rappers they’ve never heard of.
― jaymc, Monday, December 12, 2011 5:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
this, otoh, is probably totally untrue. but im not partic butthurt about it unless they actually are writing about music professionally
maybe they’re not saying “he’s better than Apathy” but I do hear a lot of “wow, I don’t even LIKE rap and I LOVE Childish Gambino”...
xxp c’mon in that case it would be all ridiculous seinfeldian “can you believe the crazy micro beer bullshit we’ve all been drinking recently?” instead of the “fuck u harlequin craft beer smoking fan fic bronie writing challenger spaceship cowboy riding assholes”
in Florida people refer to craft beer as “shit that don’t taste good”. oh well, more for me then...
xxp c’mon in that case it would be all ridiculous seinfeldian “can you believe the crazy micro beer bullshit we’ve all been drinking recently?” instead of the “fuck u harlequin craft beer smoking fan fic bronie writing challenger spaceship cowboy riding assholes”
― Mordy, Monday, December 12, 2011 4:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
Seattle =/ New York
I was specifically talking about the northwest as opposed to the rest of the country, holmes.
idk what we’re talking about now
we’re all about craft beers up here.
I’m saying that in the northwest drinking micros became a widespread, non-hipstery thing like 20 years ago, at least.
my friend makes his own in his garage. true story.
xpost~!
And that people here don’t use the phrase “craft beers”.
My dad wants to make his own beer btw.
he should—it’s fun!
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
The 2001 bit made sense as Jeff was hallucinating from monkey sleeping gas
can’t believe i’m missing this show for reals u_u
“this show isn’t for neckbeard twee losers, i just went to the onion av club an—
whiney don’t you actually have a neckbeard?
Nope, I shave that shit
I have a beard beard
whiney’s just an old hairy dude, you can’t hold any neck hair against him imo
so do you shave directly under your chin
no, there’s actually a jaw that happens between the chin and the neck!
thanks subway
I’m just saying I’ve never heard anyone in the NW ever use the phrase “craft beer”.
And I haven’t heard anyone say “microbrew” in years.
Seems v. 90s.
I heard someone say microbrew on Saturday.
Note: I am not living in the 90s.
i have never heard ‘craft beer’ in conversation ever, have not heard ‘microbrew’ much but then i don’t really want to live in a world where people talk about what they’re drinking beyond a “what’ll you have?” or “i have some ____ in the fridge if you want any”
tumblr brew
yeah i haven’t heard ‘microbrew’ in years. now i think most ppl just refer to beer by its name (ala “i have some ___ in the fridge”). honestly with the ppl i hang out with, the term i hear most is ‘good beer’ or ‘decent beer.’ like, “i’ll get a case of pbr but you might want to get a sixer of something decent, too.” esp since now you can get stuff that’s like maybe $1–2 more a six-pack than PBR, miles better, and available at the gas station (if you live in some enlightened state where beer can be purchased in gas stations).
i think too if you live some place with a lot of local breweries then the novelty of drinking something other than bud or pbr has long since evaporated and ppl just get w/e they like or is on special
such a good derail. anyways—i think once people get into a local microbrew (people still say that up here) the tendency is to stick with it, or failing that something equally snobby/expensive.
Well, all kinds of people like good beer; only certain kind nerd out about it
“Craft beer” seems p. widespread to me, from restaurant menus to local media features.
In conversation, though, I think I mostly say it when I’m referring to a bar or restaurant, like “They have a decent craft selection.” (Though I might also just say, “They have a good beer list.”)
turdy nerd shit, huh? now fulla rapeyness!
