With the news that creator Dan Harmon is fired from Community, it makes sense for that show’s actors to look for other things to do with their lives. Donald Glover was already pretty active with his nerd-rap alter-ego Childish Gambino, but he’s been getting even busier with it lately, working on a new mixtape that seems to feature just about everyone cool in rap this minute. We’ve already heard the Schoolboy Q collab “Unnecessary,” and now he’s teamed up with Das Racist’s Heems for the second time. (He also showed up on Himanshu’s Nehru Jackets mixtape.) The latest track is called “Tell Me,” and it has Glover and Heems tag-teaming a dusty soul-sampling beat. Listen below.
(via Pigeons & Planes)
No concrete news on a forthcoming mixtape yet, but rumor has it that Glover has also recorded tracks with Kendrick Lamar and Danny Brown.
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Yeah, this was well done.
God that Tune-Yards line was so lame. As was the one about having an Oscar. He’s got an alright delivery and voice, but his lyrics are absolutely terrible. Can’t believe actual rappers are collaborating with him.
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damn i forgot what i really wanted to say
That’s actually the opposite criticism I usually hear about Gambino. The dude has a lot of clever lines in general, but I think the main thing is is that he just needs so much more polish. I was hoping that was just because he was in mixtape form form, but his album did not show me the level of progression I was hoping for. Regardless, Gambino has a lot of potential to be a very interesting and talented rapper, but there’s no telling if he’ll ever seize that potential or whether he’ll seize it in time for people to not have already passed on him, whatever happens he’s got some talent in a lot of areas and his live shows are pretty fun.
His guest verse on Heems’ mixtape seemed to show a lot of progression. Hope he carries that through on to his own tape.
Hm, yeah, I actually think he’s pretty good technically. Just went back and listened to a couple tracks and again was really just turned off by his lyrical content. Stuff he brags about is hard to relate/get into, but not in the same way as rappers like Rick Ross or Curren$y. Those guys are fun to live vicariously through… Rick Ross’s impossible grandeur and luxury becomes a forcefield, and Curren$y puts you in the position of the bemused, understated OG.
Getting into Gambino is uncomfortable/impossible for me cus his whole persona could be summed up in one word, which is coincidentally his other job title – comedian. It’s as if to make up for his lack of anything interesting to say, he’s content to just throw around pop culture references and name drop indie bands. When other rappers do the same thing – a stand up equivalent of a set of straight one liners – it’s not nearly as bad because they have some sort of identity you can cling to, or a reputation you respect. In an age where an artist’s story and abilities are often held with equal importance, CG unfortunately stands out as having neither talent, or a compelling birth myth.
I’ll admit though that a lot of the reasons I dislike his music are superficial, like the fact that his rap shows include comedy, and that he was already a successful entertainer before rap. But come to think of it, I got into rap for superficial reasons to begin with – if it wasn’t for name recognition and the lack of a parental advisory sticker, I would have never gotten Shaq Diesel in the first place.
Aight fine, I’ll stop being so hard on the Gambino and give him a third chance.
I think it’s more that he’s someone like us who’s rapping about what he knows, e.g. Indie bands.
Fair enough, it just comes off as selling points for people to like his music, i.e. “yo I’m cool like you and like the same music so you should like my music too!” Especially when he says in one of his tracks something along the lines of “I aint tryna impress no hip fucks” or some shit like that… bruh you obviously are. That was like when Das Racist proclaimed “I don’t even read Pitchfork” or something like that. Don’t diss or claim to be above your target audience bruh.
When I talk about CG though, there’s always an element of jealousy that he got a free ride into the rap game by already being a celebrity… which is ironic considering I bought Shaq’s first album not just cus unlike Coolio’s album there was no Parental Adviz sticker, but also cus he was already Shaqfamous.
I see your point. I genuinely like him as a rapper (although he does have some rough edges that need smoothing off) but I only listened to him in the first place because I like Community. I think there are still a lot of issues around authenticity in Hip-Hop whereby lots of rappers feel the need to act like somebody else in order to be “authentic”, and if you rap about anything other than the hood you’re somehow not real enough.
And Heems doesn’t do the same thing?
Nah he does, somehow he comes off less abrasive though.
I agreed, like the production but the lyrics are shit.
The first sentence of this article makes no sense. It is incredibly unlikely that all of these tracks were recorded in the past week or so since Dan has been gone and Community has at least 13 more episodes to film before it is done.