- Oh, this is my song. Ohh.
- Oh, he's so good, man. He brings everything to the table.
♪ (industrial music) ♪
(silence)
♪ (dramatic choir singing) ♪
- Childish Gambino! Yes!! Awesome!
- Childish Gambino is such a dope-ass artist.
- Ew!! Oh.
(chuckling) This is Childish Gambino.
I got scared. I was like, "What is this?"
- He goes off. Like, the beats are ridiculous.
- ♪ ...up my ass crack ♪ - I love him.
- ♪ ...Childish Gambino, homegirl drop it like the NASDAQ ♪
- (groans in disgust)
- This kinda look like the movie 12 Years a Slave.
- This is so upsetting, you guys.
Just a light little video to watch. What?
- ♪ You wanna see my girl? Check Maxim ♪
♪ "Man, why does every black actor gotta rap some?" ♪
- I really wish this music video wasn't as intense.
- ♪ It's a bonfire, turn the lights out ♪
- (singing along) ♪ We burnin' everything ♪
♪ You muthafuckas talk about ♪
- ♪ It's a bonfire, turn the lights out ♪
♪ I'm burnin' everything you muthafuckas talk about ♪
- Yeah, that's crazy.
- I love Childish Gambino.
Um, I mean, I love Donald Glover as a writer
and performer and rapper.
- He's like a mix of, like, Chance plus some Kendrick.
- That imagery was, like, horrible.
Like shades of slavery, deep South.
Is that Childish Gambino? It's really powerful.
- ♪ All right, Gambino is a mastermind ♪
♪ Fuck a bitch to pass the time ♪
♪ Mass appeal, orange rind ♪
♪ Smoke your green ♪ - Yes.
- ♪ The beat is witches brew, but beware this shit is potent ♪
♪ E.E. cummin' on her face ♪
♪ Now that's poetry in motion ♪
♪ Yeah, Gambino... ♪ - "Poetry in motion."
- ♪ ...move somethin' ♪
♪ Yeah, this cool fuckin' suits me ♪
- Ooh, I like this video.
- I love that it's like just this sparse stage.
And he's just ripping on everybody.
- I couldn't imagine just cruising around a warehouse
going crazy. He's so fearless.
- ♪ This beat is a disaster, 9/11 this track ♪
♪ Rappers wanna battle me ♪
♪ I have to mail their heads back ♪
♪ And my clique make that dinero ♪
♪ So it's time to meet the fuckers ♪
♪ I am runnin' this bitch, you are just a dog walker ♪
- Ohh!
- ♪ You are just a dog walker ♪
♪ Leavin' with your girl when we last seen... ♪
- He's got some of the most clever lyricism I've ever heard.
- ♪ ...tag-team Rihanna ♪
♪ Fly girl on her knees, she don't wanna come near me ♪
♪ And my dick is too big, there's a big bang theory ♪
- Yeah. Let's go.
- ♪ What do y'all think? ♪
♪ While y'all niggas masturbate, I'm in that Ariel Pink ♪
- (chuckles) - ♪ If I am just ♪
♪ A rapper man, you could've fooled me ♪ - There's a lot of this.
Can I do that?
- ♪ They talkin' bull me ♪
♪ (squawks) ♪
- His lyrics are so freakin' good.
- This is the first song of his I heard years ago
when I was watching Community.
And I was like, "Funny person raps?"
- ♪ Fuck these other niggas ♪
- This is my favorite one. ♪ ...till 3005, hold up ♪
- ♪ Fuck these other niggas ♪ - Oh, this is my song. Oh!
- ♪ Okay, hold up, wait a minute ♪
- (singing along) ♪ All good just a week ago ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Crew at my house ♪
♪ And we party every weekend so ♪
- This music video scared the crap out of me though.
The bear just watching you while the apocalypse happens?
- ♪ iPhone got message from Viber ♪
♪ Either the head is so hydra ♪
♪ Or we let bygones be bygones ♪
♪ "My god, you pay for your friends?" ♪
♪ I'll take that as a compliment ♪
♪ Got a house... ♪ - Look how cute he is.
- ♪ Sorry, I'm just scared of the future ♪
♪ Till 3005, I got your back, we can do this, hold up ♪
- Wow.
- ♪ No matter what you say or what... ♪
- I'm here for you till the future. That's deep.
- ♪ ...with you ♪
♪ Fuck these other niggas, I'll be... ♪
- I like how this is the point in his career
when you can noticeably see the difference
between wacky Community guy and, like,
hip-hop, like, Childish Gambino.
- ♪ Hold up, (Hold up), hold up, (Hold up) ♪
- Yeah, this is a good one.
- (singing along) ♪ No matter what you say or what you do ♪
- ♪ When I'm alone, I'd rather be with you ♪
- There's so many layers to what he has to say.
- ♪ ...till 3005, hold up ♪
- Oh snap. That's a really good song too.
How could I have never heard of it before?
- I like it a lot. I'm not much of a big rap fan,
but I do like his songs.
- ♪ Got her hair done, French braids ♪
♪ Now she A$AP ♪ - I actually don't know this one.
- ♪ She asking, "Why you say that?!" ♪
- But I fuck with it.
- ♪ I'm chillin', real nigga feeling ♪
♪ Rich kid, asshole ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Paint me as a villain ♪
This is one of my favorite Childish Gambino songs.
- You'd think he'd be in a hood or projects with his boys,
you know, chilling up, smoking weed or something.
He's going through a diner.
- ♪ No hands like soccer teams ♪
♪ And y'all fuck boys like Socrates ♪
♪ You niggas ain't copping these, niggas ain't looking like me ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I ain't checking I.D. ♪
♪ But I bounce 'em with no problem ♪
♪ Tell 'em, Problem (Problem!) ♪ - His videos are so artsy.
- ♪ Furniture custom, you shop at IKEA ♪
♪ So Maserati, you whipping a Kia ♪ - Hmm.
- Ooh, more Donald Glovers.
- Whaaat? Whaaat?
- ♪ Bring a girlfriend, man, trouble when I see her ♪
♪ "Err-eh-err-eh" ♪ - (singing along) ♪ Onomatopoeia, oh ♪
- ♪ I got my cool on! (Tailormade!) ♪
- (chuckling) - ♪ I'm winning, so they had to dump ♪
♪ The Gatorade ♪ - So good. It's just so good.
Yeah, "Sweatpants" is like my favorite.
- He kinda like Kanye West, get away with a little more stuff.
He's a little out there, a little crazy.
- Oh, he's so good, man. He brings everything to the table.
♪ (light RnB) ♪
- ♪ And now that it's over ♪
- Ooh, I like this song.
- ♪ ...couldn't believe, but now I'm so high ♪
- Sounds like a nice slow jam, love song.
- ♪ ...sober, I couldn't believe ♪
♪ But now I'm so high ♪
♪ Now I'm so high ♪ - Oh. It's kinda creepy.
- ♪ Girl, what's your problem? ♪
- I like how this is shot a lot.
The color and stuff, this is really nice to watch.
- ♪ Just give it some time ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Oh honey, now, girl ♪
- ♪ We can solve them ♪
- She doesn't look like she's letting him in at all, right?
- He's stalking a girl, you know?
(chuckles) He look a little creepy there.
- ♪ If you le-le-let it shine ♪
♪ You can free-ee-ee... ♪ - He looks a little--
might be a drug addict, this one.
- (muffled) ♪ Now I'm so high ♪
- (laughs)
- (chuckles)
She is so unimpressed.
- Could you imagine actually trying to pick up a girl like that?
- Oh. - ♪ Now I'm so high ♪
- Look up, girl.
- Dude, he's such a good actor with such good comedic timing.
And it's cool that that's where he came from.
- I'm more of a fun than his, like-- than his kind of yelling--
not yelling, but, like, aggressivenss.
- That video was insane. Like, he was clearly...
playing out a lot of things in his head
that should get him institutionalized.
- (FBE) So the next song doesn't have a video yet.
But it's gotten really popular,
so we have the audio for you to listen to.
- I'm assuming "Redbone."
- "Redbone"? Is it gonna be from a bathroom?
♪ (psychedelic soul music) ♪
- Ohhhh!! (chuckles)
This song has a special place in my heart.
- This is "Redbone," right?
- Yeees. I fucking love this song!
- Interesting art. (chuckles)
- ♪ Daylight ♪ - Wow. That's him too?
- Wait, this is him singing? It doesn't even sound like him.
- ♪ ...right ♪
♪ I used to know ♪
♪ But now that shit don't... ♪
- Wow. This is pretty good.
- Twitter is insane with this one. Oh my god.
- You know it's a great song when it turns into its own meme.
- ♪ If you want it, yeah ♪
- This reminds me-- it's got a little Prince vibe.
- It's got that old-school kinda flavor to it,
like a '70s, '80s kinda music.
- ♪ Oh ♪ - I just, oh, vibe.
- ♪ You can have it ♪
♪ But stay woke ♪
♪ Niggas creepin' ♪
♪ They gon'... ♪
- This is a song that you can play at a party
but also just play when you're hanging out with your friends
or when you're just by yourself. It's so good.
- ♪ Niggas creepin' ♪ - (snaps fingers)
I wish he would put out a music video for that song, man.
It's so good.
- When I downloaded this album, I was, like,
expecting the oldest stuff, like the rapping.
But I'll be damned if I don't like it. It's brilliant.
- You can see from his earlier songs,
I'm assuming we were watching,
to how the production really built up
with instruments especially.
- It's so cool to see his progression and see so much change
but it still be him. It's just so much Childish Gambino.
- (FBE) So those were all music videos
by the artist Childish Gambino. - Yeah, he's amazing.
- (FBE) And his real name is Donald-- - Donald Glover.
You don't have to tell me. I already know.
- (FBE) And he is an actor and comedian
who has been on shows like Community and Atlanta
and is in the new Spider-Man movie and so much more,
making him one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
- Absolutely.
- He's an actor and a comedian? I never knew that.
What a talented guy.
- (FBE) One of his early successes
was actually part of a very popular YouTube channel years back
called Derrick Comedy.
- And that would've been when YouTube was just
kind of getting its groove.
- (FBE) So what do you think about the fact
that he's had so much success in so many different ares?
- I mean, that just shows that he's a man with many crafts.
Like, it takes a lot for you to be able to be successful
in more than just one field.
- He's your modern-day Renaissance man.
I'm nowhere as busy as he is,
and I can't even get one section of my life right.
- That is unreal, especially because he started on YouTube.
What if YouTube never existed?
We would never have this guy's talent to bless our lives.
- It's honestly one of the most inspiring things in the world
that he wanted to do so many things. And he wasn't just like,
"Oh, I need to focus on this. I need to become this."
He just did all of it.
- It's annoying as an actor to see someone so multi-talented.
There's a few examples of, like,
actors who definitely shouldn't go into music
or musicians who definitely shouldn't go into acting.
Watching him as Troy doing all these funny little raps
and being so hilarious and different.
Then I was like, "Oh, I'm not gonna listen to his music."
Of course I am.
- (FBE) So when you listen to his rap,
how does it differ or not differ from other rap artists?
- You can listen to his raps by themselves without the music.
And it's just how lyrically skilled he is.
- It's modern funk, honestly,
which is a very un-utilized genre. And it's almost nonexistent.
And he mixes that with the rap and a little bit of rock
and stuff like that.
- The layer upon layer of, like, um--
of really good lyrics and also really different styles of music,
it sets it apart from everything else.
- A lot of the rap dominating is, like, man, mumble rap.
It's art in its way, but there's--
like, it's not, you know, like this type of art.
- The rap that's out there right now, it's a lot of mumble rap.
His music's a little different.
He got a little hip hop edge to it
with a little '80s, '70s little vibe to it.
He can go pop. He can go hip hop. He can go rock.
- He does super-hard stuff. But then it's also like--
I don't know. It's like music.
Like, he makes timeless pieces of music
as opposed to maybe something that's just popular for the moment.
- (FBE) So finally, he recently announced that his next album
looks like it will be his last... - What?!
(heavy sigh) Donald.
- (FBE) ...stating that his music career is no longer necessary.
- Yeah. I mean, I get it. He's moving on.
- (FBE) Do you think that it's a good idea
to stop while he's ahead? Or should he keep making music
alongside how busy he is with his other projects?
- Um, he should. But, you know, as good as he is,
you know, I don't think he's gonna stop.
- Someone of his-- who has his level of creativity,
I don't think they ever are gonna fully stop making music.
- Ain't no money really in the music.
The money-- he like, "Yo, Hollywood come callin'.
They dish out them checks."
He know where that paper at.
- One of your outlets becomes a chore,
then I think it's really smart to choose
where your love and your passion is.
I'm gonna guess that he's wanting to go more deeper
into acting, directing, and that kind of direction. He's so good.
- If he's busy with his acting and comedy
and what he wants to do, the same out of, like, heart
is not gonna be put into his music.
And that's gonna show no matter what.
- That's one of the most important things about art,
is realizing where you are as a person and what you've put out
and what's enough, 'cause anyone can paint a canvas
and then keep painting and add different facets
and do different stuff.
But there's a point where it just becomes complete.
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