This can sit alongside Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” Drake’s “Trophies,” or Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle” as an ultimate pump-up rap (“Don’t be mad ‘cause I’m doin’ me better than you doin’ you”) with all the bells and whistles. The acoustic, radiant final section feels like the crew celebrating the last session of a massive achievement. Shiningly hopeful, the “Awaken, My Love!” closer features some of Glover’s most passionate vocals gliding over a choir, flute and the last of the album’s wavy guitar work. The way it loosely plays around with the pieces of “3005” and adds brand new bits feels like the days when hip-hop remixes were legitimately tweaked and redone, not just the same old single with a new guest verse tacked on. It’s remarkable Glover was content to hide such a marvel away, potentially to never be found. The best iteration of “3005” isn’t the Because the Internet original or the minimalist “Beach Picnic Version” on Kauai, it’s the spinoff that stayed buried inside the code for Gambino’s 72-page Because the Internet online movie script for nearly a year before a Redditor was able to hack the Matrix. Also: a snatch of spoken word from Jaden Smith at the end! It’s a moment where Glover crushes a genre so deftly you can’t help but imagine an alternate career as a king of Top 40 radio. Kauai EP opener “Sober” is an all-timer, catchy with a great video, but immediately after it comes the pop-themed project’s best and busiest bop. Childish Gambino – “Pop Thieves (Make It Feel Good)” The icing on the cake (“cake-cake-cake-cake-cake”) came when Sway assumed Glover was done and ready to chat again… only to get cut off by more fire.ĭonald Glover Talks Acting, Directing and Meeting 'Star Wars' Predecessor Billy Dee Williamsĥ. Why focus on Donald Glover when another emo actor-turned-rapper-singer was in the top spot and putting out new stuff nonstop? So when Childish Gambino hit Sway in the Morning in a furry Russian hat to casually body Drake‘s godly Nothing Was the Same beat, rap’s axis tilted a little. Childish Gambino – “Pound Cake Freestyle”Ī big part of what kept Gambeezy at the margins of music until “Awaken, My Love!” was our culture’s “There Can Only Be One” problem. “If we were kids/ I’d want to give you everything that you would want,” Glover coos on one of the best hooks of his career at that point, only to have it gorgeously doubled by a violin throughout.Ĩ. This late Camp cut lightly swirls tinkling xylophone with soft strings to juxtapose the complications of adult love and the pure simplicity of childhood crushes. It stays on topic from there, mulling and dreading isolation, rejection and two-faced Hollywood minions, while gifting us with the gem, “They laughed at my rise like my motion was funny/ Ashy to classy, my lotion is money.” Syrupy synth underscores a killer Royalty mixtape collab between the Houston hero Bun B and Atlanta outcast-turned-idol Gambino, while an airy sample from French house DJ Kavinsky adds a layer of fun.įears and insecurities have been standard in hip-hop for a long while now, but opening an EP by falsetto-belting “I don’t wanna be alone” with this level of anguish and earnestness just wasn’t something hip-hop heavy hitters did in 2011. “I never ever thought that I would be scared,” he admits, “Of living in a world where you are not there.”ġ3. His sophomore drop Poindexter arrived in 2009, the same day NBC’s Community premiered, and with it came this genuinely anguished, fantastically rapped plea to an ex. Glover’s pre- Camp work was marked by an ultra-nasal voice and a lot of flows nakedly cribbing from Lil Wayne and Jay-Z, but once in a while the DNA of the artist he’d become bubbled up.
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