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It's brilliant, really. Glover makes you stick it out till the end—through all his fucked up imagery and post-modern thinking and weird house-like production and everything else that may annoy you about his rapping—simply to be like, "Oh yeah, fuck you. I can actually rap. The raps are self-conscious; not pandering.

Our culture is fleeting. You should shut up the fuck up and listen to him try. Eric Sundermann is the Managing Editor at Noisey. Sign In Create Account. This story is over 5 years old. Don't allow the narrative surrounding Donald Glover's musical career define the way you think.

The truth is that this video, and what it suggests about its artist, is very difficult. A lot of black people hate it. Glover forces us to relive public traumas and barely gives us a second to breathe before he forces us to dance. Decades of Dylanology have missed the point—the music is the message. By Alex Ross. By Claudia Roth Pierpont.

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November 2, by: Wongo Okon. Indeed, he's had a lot on ever since he graduated from his creative writing course at New York University five years ago. Glover has written for The Daily Show and 30 Rock , in which he also appeared. He is part of the sketch team Derrick Comedy , whose YouTube clips have accumulated more than 30m views, nearly 9m of which are for a sketch about "bro rape". He has a wildly successful standup career and stars as Troy in the hugely popular sitcom Community.

But last night, Glover appeared before a crowd of 2, as Childish Gambino , a rap alter-ego that allows him to write the sort of brutally sharp lines about race, class, gender and sexuality that would never make it into a mainstream TV show. Glover calls it Black Rock. Kids just want to go nuts, Odd Future know that. People want to experience something physical. As Gambino, Glover can explore his every behavioural tic, trait and hangup, as well as let great shafts of light on to everyone else's.

In this guise, the TV star is just a "nerdy-ass black kid", a "well-spoken token". On the song Backpackers , he concludes that as a "black male in short shorts, I'm double suspect". Glover started rapping eight years ago, in an attempt to reclaim a corner of an industry that had decided only one type of expression was allowed, since when he's made a series of mixtapes and downloads before Camp, his first official album.

For a few years, if you weren't a thugged-out gangsta, you simply didn't exist in hip-hop. You had to be a hustler, and I'm no hustler. He had been shot nine times. He had a slur from the shootings. He was huge.