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If things get sour, you can most probably catch him at his grandmama's place searching for comfort and expecting your sympathy: 'Grandma's couch, my biggest fear and fantasy/ When I ain't in her arms all I'm making is enemies' or 'My girl ain't down to ride, couldn't deal with my day to day/ I'm at my Grandma's house, man, like I don't know what to say' or 'High off of pressure, man, that's a stiletto/ Got your own couch now but you don't feel better.' If haters won't hold him back, then why does he let his relationships or his insecurities about being disliked by others tie him up? Not that those aren't legitimate and relatable fears, but they're getting old and they're especially trivial if he's after this rap game with the hard-nosed determination that he's claimed since Culdesac ('Cause let's face it, if I wasn't working with Tina on pitches I would probably flood the market, and go Katrina, you bitches'). The final track, 'That Power', is a moving spoken-word tale of how as a kid, Glover confessed his feelings for a girl on the bus home from summer camp, and the lasting consequences of that action: namely, a career telling his secrets to as many people as will listen.Whether it's with his girl or with his critics, Gambino always reminds us that he is more comfortable making friends than making enemies. There are debts to Kanye here, but it really is rather good. What follows this auspicious beginning is a riveting album about race, class, opportunity, tribalism, love, the pitfalls of fame, comedy and 'seriousness' вЂ“ one that coexists quite happily with a potty-mouthed pop-rap record about sleeping with girls. The rhymes ponder his childhood incontinence, as well as the unbridgeable rift between Glover and his favourite cousin, 'the person I took sink baths with', left behind in the projects. 'Outside' begins provocatively enough with heavenly Beach Boys harmonies. More precisely, on Camp he never stops prodding the dividing line between 'hood shit' and 'black shit' вЂ“ his words on 'Outside', the opening track. As a result of his suburbanness, his nerdiness, his liking for non-black music ('the only black kid at the Sufjan concert') and his success, Gambino finds himself having to defend his 'blackness' at every turn. CULDESAC is a diverse release, and that word keeps coming up for a reason Glover-Gambino contains multitudes. It cemented GambinoвЂ™s reputation of rapping over indie music, but itвЂ™s not exclusively strings and guitar rock. His family moved out of an insalubrious area to prevent Glover falling into 'the lifestyle'. When I think of what I like about Donald Glover and Childish Gambino, my mind goes to the tracks on CULDESAC. With the advent of Kanye West, hip-hop found itself wondering how the son of an English professor could be 'real'. Hip-hop has long done a fine line in indignation, serving as the voice of a suppressed underclass dealing drugs and rhyming about it, two viable career opportunities in a racist world. Most of his real zingers are unprintable, but a number of them canВ be found allstucktogetherreallyfast (Г la vintage Eminem) on a lethal track called 'You See Me'. 'I made the beat retarded so I'm calling it a slow jam,' he mugs on 'Bonfire', the rude and raw lead track from his second album (a handful of mixtapes and his debut, Culdesac, precede this release). In fact, Gambino's flows are funny, furious, obnoxious, literate and pensive by turn, and roughly 2,000 times better than Will Smith's. Unsurprisingly, the rise of Childish Gambino has provoked scorn from many quarters вЂ“ those who believe actors must keep to their enclosure, those who believe Glover is not 'ghetto' enough to rap, and those who believe he just isn't any good. You may have heard him on the Jamie xx remix of Adele's ' Rolling in the Deep'. Not a comedian making jokes about hip hop вЂ“ an actual artist who rhymes and makes beats. Glover didn't get the gig but he is none the less one of most fancied young talents in American entertainment, with a couple of movies in the pipeline. The thing is Donald Glover for whatever reason decided to literally be a SICK BOY on this first album, rapping the entire time like he had a bad cold, tissue stuffed up his.

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When rumours circulated last year that he was auditioning for the part of Spider-Man, a Twitter campaign to get him in the red-and-black spandex went viral. Even though Childish Gambino recently blew up with a major label album, the actor turned rapper had been dropping free mixtapes for years, dating back to 'Sick Boi' in 2008. Glover has written scripts for 30 Rock, a job given to him by comedy darling Tina Fey.

#Donald glover culdesac series#

F ans of US TV comedy might be more familiar with Childish Gambino as actor/comedian Donald Glover, currently starring in the series Community.