This Is America - Muziek
This Is America by Childish Gambino
Childish Gambino
Biografie van de kunstenaar Childish Gambino
Donald McKinley Glover Jr Born September 25 1983 Is An American Actor Comedian And Musician. As A Recording Artist He Usually Performs With The Stage Name Childish Gambino. While A Disk Jockey He Performs As McDJ. He First Came To Attention For His Work With Derrick Comedy And With The Help Of Tina Fey Was Hired At The Age Of 21 To Become A Writer For The NBC Comedy Series 30 Rock. He Later Played College Student Troy Barnes On The NBC Sitcom Community. After Several Self-Released Albums And Mixtapes Glover Signed To Glassnote Records In 2011 As Childish Gambino. He Released Camp On Glassnote On November 15 2011. His Second Studio Album Because The Internet Was Released On December 10 2013. Glover Jr Was Nominated For Two Grammy Awards In 2015 Best Rap Album For Because The Internet And Best Rap Performance For His Single "3005". Glover Jr Was Born At Edwards Air Force Base California And Raised In Stone Mountain Georgia. His Mother Beverly Smith Is A Retired Daycare Provider And His Father Donald Sr Is A Retired Postal Worker. His Parents Also Served As DeKalb County Foster Parents For 14 Years. He Was Raised A Jehovah's Witness. He Was Voted "Most Likely To Write For The Simpsons" In His High School Yearbook. Glover Jr Graduated From New York University's Tisch School Of The Arts With A Degree In Dramatic Writing In 2006. From 2006 To 2009 Glover Jr Was A Writer For The NBC Series 30 Rock Where He Also Had Occasional Cameo Appearances. He Was Presented The Writers Guild Of America Award For Best Comedy Series At The February 2009 Ceremony For His Work On The Third Season. Glover Jr's Stage Name Childish Gambino Came From The Wu-Tang Clan's Name Generator. On June 5 2008 He Released An Independent Album Titled Sick Boi. Glover Jr Would Then Become A Member Of The Sketch Comedy Group Derrick Comedy Along With Dominic Dierkes Meggie McFadden DC Pierson And Dan Eckman. The Group Wrote And Starred In A Feature-Length Film Mystery Team Released In Theaters In 2009. On September 17 2009 Childish Gambino Released The Independent Album Poindexter. A Pair Of Mixtapes Titled I Am Just A Rapper And I Am Just A Rapper 2 Were Released In Close Succession In 2010. Robert Scahill Added His Producing Expertise Helping With The Majority Of The Tracks. The Track Listings For Those Mixtapes Consist Of The Name Of The Song "he" Raps Followed By The Song He Raps Over. His Second Album Culdesac Was Set To Be Released On July 2 2010 But A Couple Of Last Minute Additions Caused The Album To Be Delayed For A Day. The Album Was Made Available On July 3. Glover Jr Has Stated In Interviews That On Sick Boi And Poindexter He Felt He Had To Hide Behind Gimmicks Such As Pink Hoodies But With His Subsequent Projects He Has Touched On More Personal Subject Matter Including Family Schoolyard Bullying Troubled Romantic Relationships Suicidal Thoughts And Alcoholism. He Has Disowned His 2005 Album The Younger I Get As The Too-Raw Ramblings Of What He Calls A "decrepit." Glover Jr's Stand-Up Special Aired On Comedy Central On March 19 2010. In May 2010 A Fan Suggested Glover Jr For The Role Of Peter Parker In The Then-Upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man Film Encouraging His Supporters To Retweet The Hashtag "#donald4spiderman". The Campaign Originally Started To See How Far Social Networking Could Carry A Message Quickly Gained A Large Following. The Call For Glover To Be Allowed To Audition For The Role Was Supported By Spider-Man Creator Stan Lee. Glover Jr Was Not Awarded An Audition And The Role Instead Went To Andrew Garfield. He Would Later Reveal That He Was Never Contacted By Anyone From Sony Pictures For The Role. Comics Writer Brian Michael Bendis Who Announced An African-American Version Of Spider-Man A Year Later Said He Had Conceived Of The Character Before Glover Jr's Campaign Went Viral. Bendis Gave Credit To Glover For Influencing The New Hero's Looks For Spider-Man After Seeing Him Dressed As Spider-Man On Community A Nod To The Campaign Bendis Said "I Saw Him In The Costume And Thought 'I Would Like To Read That Book.'" Glover Jr Would Later Voice This Incarnation Of Spider-Man On The Ultimate Spider-Man Animated Series. Glover Jr Received The Rising Comedy Star Award At The Just For Laughs Festival In July 2010. Glover Jr Was Featured In Gap's 2010 Holiday Ad Campaign. He DJs And Produces Electronic Music Under The Moniker "mcDJ" Pronounced "M-C-D-J" . His Music Is Often Made Available For Free Download Via His Website. On December 1 2010 Glover Jr Released The First Track Off Of His EP Titled "Be Alone". He Released The Next Track "Freaks And Geeks" As Well As A Five-Song Track List On February 11 2011. On February 25 Glover Jr Released The Dates For The IAMDONALD Tour And Also His Very First Music Video For "Freaks And Geeks". The Music Video Was Shot By Dan Eckman The Director Of The Derrick Comedy Troupe. This Song Was Later Used In An Adidas Commercial Featuring Dwight Howard. On March 8 2011 Glover Jr Released The EP Via His Official Website. On March 16 2011 Glover Jr Hosted The MtvU Woodie Awards Held Live At South By Southwest. On March 24 2011 Glover Jr Taped His One-Hour Comedy Special Weirdo For Comedy Central It Aired On November 19. Glover Jr Appeared At The 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival On June 9 In The 'This Tent' As Childish Gambino And June 11 At 'The Comedy Theater' With Bill Bailey Performing Stand Up. Comedy Central Streamed The Comedy Live On Their Website. On May 4 2011 In An Interview With TheHipHopUpdate Gambino Revealed That He Was Working On An LP To Be Released In September. On July 25 2011 Glover Jr Announced That His New Album Would Be Titled Camp. On October 8 During His Orlando Florida Concert He Announced Camp Would Be Released On November 15 2011. Glover Jr Worked With Friend And Film Composer Ludwig Göransson On The Debut Album. On August 20 2011 At The Los Angeles Rock The Bells Concert He Gave An Interview To AllHipHop.Com And He Announced To The Crowd That He Had Signed With Glassnote Records. On September 20 His First Official Single "Bonfire" Was Released. The IAMDONALD Tour Made 24 Stops In 34 Days Beginning With Ames Iowa On April 16 And Finishing With Minneapolis On May 19. In Between This Included Stops At Music Venues In Las Vegas Houston Washington And Atlanta. The Tour Was A One-Man Live Show That Consisted Of Rap Comedy And Video Segments. The Sign-Up Tour Was Glover Jr's Next Pre-Album Tour. He Visited 11 Cities Over The Course Of 38 Days In October And November 2011. Chidlish G Made A Website For The Tour Called Camp Gambino On November 19 Four Days After His Album Released. The Tour Featured Special Guest Danny Brown And Made 20 Stops During The Course Of 32 Days Along A Dates In California In December. On March 14 2012 Several Dates On The CAMP Tour Were Postponed Due To A Fractured Foot Childish Suffered On March 10 While Performing In Tampa Florida. The Tour Began In Austin Texas On April 5 And Ended August 10 In Hollywood California. On January 11 2012 Childish Gambino Announced On His Website That A New Mixtape Would Be Coming Out Soon. On April 2 He Released A New Song "Eat Your Vegetables" Through His Website. On May 14 Funkmaster Flex Premiered "Unnecessary " Featuring Schoolboy Q. On May 16 Gambino Released "We Ain't Them" Through His Website Produced By Himself And Frequent Collaborator Ludwig. On May 22 Glover Jr Appeared On Das Racist's Radio Show "Chillin' Island" Where He Premiered A New Song "Tell Me " Which Featured Himanshu Suri Aka Heems From Das Racist. On May 26 Glover Released "Black Faces" Featuring Nipsey Hussle And Produced By Boi-1da. On May 30 He Released A Third Track "Silk Pillow " Featuring Beck And Produced By Both Glover Jr And Beck. On June 25 He Revealed That The Mixtape Was To Be Released On July 4 2012. On June 26 Glover Jr Premiered Another New Track On Sway In The Morning On Shade 45 Entitled "One Up " Featuring His Brother Steve G. Lover. That Same Day He Stated That The Mixtape Would Be Titled Royalty Despite Previous Statements That It Would Not Be Called That. On July 4 2012 He Released Royalty For Free Via Digital Download. On July 7 2012 Gambino Released The Track "Body " Featuring Prodigy Which Did Not Make The Cut For The Mixtape. On July 24 2012 He Released The Music Video For "Fire Fly" Through His VEVO Account On YouTube. On August 21 2012 BBC Radio 1 Premiered Leona Lewis' New Song "Trouble" Off Her Upcoming Album Glassheart Which Features Childish Gambino. The Song Was Available For Purchase Via ITunes On October 7 And Peaked At #7 On The UK Singles Chart The Following Week Making It His First UK Top 10 Single. On November 4 2012 Ludwig Göransson Said In An Interview With Portable That He And Gambino Were In His Studio Coming Up With New Ideas For The Next Album Which Was To Be "bigger" And "with More People Involved." In 2013 Glover Jr Signed On To Create A Music-Themed Show For FX Titled Atlanta In Which He Will Star Write And Executive Produce. Consequently He Decided To Reduce His Work For NBC And Only Appears In The First Five Episodes Of Community's 13-Episode Fifth Season. Although Many TV Stations Were Interested In Picking Up His Half-Hour Comedy He Ultimately Picked FX Due To Their Willingness To Work Around His Touring Schedule. On October 6 2013 He Announced On Twitter That His Second Studio Album Was Completed. He Further Announced This At Homecoming Week At Penn State University Stating “I Got A New Album Coming Out Soon So This Is The Last Time We’re Gonna Play A Lot Of This Shit.” On October 8 2013 He Announced Its Title As Because The Internet And Revealed That It Would Be Released In December 2013. On October 21 2013 Glover Jr Released The First Single "3005" And Announced A Release Date For The Album As December 10 2013. On February 15 2014 The Rapper Launched His Deep Web Tour In The UK. On February 27 Childish Gambino Was Scheduled To Begin The United States Portion Of His Tour With A Gig At The Fox Theater In Oakland California. On June 6 2014 RIAA Certified Heartbeat Gold - Making It Glover's First Certification And Then On July 18 2014 RIAA Also Certified 3005 Gold Making It Glover's Second Certification. On October 2 2014 He Released A New Mixtape Titled STN MTN And The Next Day He Released An EP Titled Kauai. The Mixtape And The EP Follow The Story That Was Last Told In Because The Internet And Are Meant To Be A Joint Project Instead Of Separate Projects. On October 10 2014 Ubisoft Revealed That They Had Collaborated With Glover Jr To Incorporate His Song "Crawl" Into Far Cry 4. On December 5 2014 Glover Jr Was Nominated For Two Grammy Awards. He Was A Contender For Best Rap Album For Because The Internet Glassnote Records And Best Rap Performance For His Single “3005.” On March 21 2015 Glover Jr Won An MtvU Woodies Award For Best Video Woodie For The Song "Sober" From The Kauai EP. As Of February 2016 Because The Internet Has Been Certified Gold By The Recording Industry Association Of America For Shipping Over 500 000 Copies. Glover's Third Album Awaken My Love! Spawned The Single "Redbone" Which Peaked At Number Twelve On The Billboard Hot 100 And Eventually Earned Him His First Grammy Award. In 2018 Glover Released "This Is America" Which Debuted At Number-One On The Hot 100 And Won Four Grammy Awards Including For Song And Record Of The Year. 13 Glover's Fourth Album 3.15.20 Was Released In 2020. 14
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"This Is America" Is A Song By American Rapper Donald Glover Under His Musical Stage Name Childish Gambino. Written By Glover Ludwig Göransson And Jeffery Lamar Williams And Produced By Glover And Göransson It Was Released On May 5 2018 At The Same Time That Gambino Was Hosting An Episode Of Saturday Night Live. The Song Features Background Vocals By American Rappers Young Thug Who Also Has Writing Credit As Williams Slim Jxmmi Of Rae Sremmurd BlocBoy JB Quavo Of Migos And 21 Savage. The Song Addresses The Wider Issue Of Gun Violence In The United States The High Rate Of Mass Shootings In The United States Along With Other Social Issues Like Longstanding Racism And Discrimination. The Song's Accompanying Music Video Was Directed By Filmmaker Hiro Murai A Frequent Gambino Collaborator. "This Is America" Became The 31st Song To Debut At Number One On The US Billboard Hot 100 Becoming Both Gambino's First Number One And Top Ten Single In The Country. It Has Also Topped The Charts In Australia Canada And New Zealand. The Song Won In All Four Of Its Nominated Categories At The 61st Annual Grammy Awards Record Of The Year Song Of The Year Best Rap/Sung Performance And Best Music Video. This Made Gambino The First Hip-Hop Artist To Win Record Of The Year And Song Of The Year And "This Is America" The First Rap Song To Win These Awards. Composition
The Song Features A Gospel-Style Choir And Background Contributions From Various American Rappers. Young Thug Slim Jxmmi BlocBoy JB 21 Savage And Quavo Each Deliver An Ad-Lib. Young Thug Returns To Supply The Song's Outro. The Lyrics Primarily Address Black Culture In The United States And Gun Violence In The Country. It Also Touches On The Subject Of Police Brutality And Misconduct. Pitchfork's Stephen Kearse Described The Song As A Representation Of The "tightrope Of Being Black" With The Song "built On The Sharp Contrast Between Jolly Syncretic Melodies And Menacing Trap Cadences". Bryan Rolli Of Forbes Calls It "a Vicious Urgent Take On Modern Trap Music As Glover Adopts The Clipped Percussive Flow Of His Contemporaries Atop Crackling 808s And Rumbling Bass." Media Outlets Reported That A Number Of Listeners Accused Gambino Of Plagiarism Over "This Is America" Pointing Out The Similarities Between The Song And "American Pharaoh" By Jase Harley. CBS News Stated "The Tracks Have A Similar Sound And Share Similar Themes In The Lyrics." Harley Stated That He Felt "This Is America" Was Influenced By His Song But That He Does Not Have An Issue With It. Glover's Manager Fam Rothstein Denied Any Plagiarism. Music Video
The Music Video Was Directed By Hiro Murai And Released On YouTube Simultaneously With Gambino's Performance Of The Song On Saturday Night Live. The Video Received About 12.9 Million Views In 24 Hours And Has Over 868 Million Views As Of February 2023. In An Interview With The New York Times Murai Discussed His Upcoming Season For Atlanta A Show Created By And Starring Glover. He Stated "There's Sort Of A World-Weariness In Both This Season And The Music Video. They're Both Reactions To What's Happening In The World." The Video Contains Many Scenes Involving Violence. It Starts Off With A Shirtless Gambino Dancing Through A Warehouse Interacting With A Series Of Chaotic Scenes. According To Murai The Video Was Inspired By The Films Mother! And City Of God. Prettyman States "The Video Tests Us Taunting Us To Keep Pace As We Try To Decode Every Gesture And Calculation". Choreographed By Sherrie Silver Gambino And His Entourage Of Young Dancers Perform Several Viral Dance Moves Including The South African Gwara Gwara And "Shoot" Popularized By BlocBoy JB Who Is One Of The Ad-Lib Contributors On The Song. Gambino's Dancing Is Contrasted Against Moments Of Violence. Only 53 Seconds Into The Video Gambino Shoots A Man In The Back Of The Head With A Handgun While Assuming A Comical Stance Similar To A Jim Crow Caricature. The First Person Depicted As Being Shot In The Video A Guitarist Who Had Been Accompanying Gambino's Singing Up To That Point Was Musician Calvin The Second But Was Initially Mistaken By Many Viewers To Be The Father Of 17-Year-Old Gun Violence Victim Trayvon Martin. This First Shooting Also Marks A Transition In The Music From An African "folk-Inspired Melody" To "dark Pulsing Trap". At A Later Point Childish Gambino Uses A Kalashnikov Patterned Automatic Weapon To Gun Down A Church Choir Which Viewers Have Interpreted As A Reference To The 2015 Charleston Church Shooting. In Both Instances A Child Appears From Off-Screen Holding A Red Cloth On Which Gambino Gently Lays The Weapon Used While The Bodies Are Simply Dragged Away Which Viewers Have Interpreted "as A Reference To Americans' Willingness To Protect Gun Rights Over People". In One Of The Moves While Dancing Gambino Positions His Arms As Though He Is Threatening Others With A Gun. The Music Stops And People Run Away In Fear After Which Gambino Lights A Joint. Scenes Also Involved Children Using Their Cell Phones To Record The Chaos Happening In The Video While Gambino Sings The Lyrics "This A Celly / That's A Tool". Martha Tesema Writer For Website Mashable Stated That "cell Phones Have Been Used As Tools To Broadcast Police Shooting Rioting Against Or Choking Black People In This Country". Throughout The Video Numerous Vehicles From Several Decades Ago Are Featured Many Of Them With Their Hazard Lights Flashing And The Driver's Side Door Ajar Which Critics Interpreted As Representing Fatal Police Shootings During Traffic Stops Particularly The Shooting Of Philando Castile Who Was Shot While In A 1997 Oldsmobile Others Have Interpreted That The Older Model Cars Represent The Relative Lack Of Upward Mobility Of African Americans. American Singer SZA Makes A Cameo Appearance Towards The End Of The Video Seated Atop One Of These Vehicles. The Video Ends With Gambino In A Darkened Portion Of The Warehouse Fearfully Running Towards The Camera While Being Chased By Several White People. Viewers Have Said This Resembles Scenes From The 2017 Film Get Out. The Dance Moves Were Based On Various African Dances Such As Angolan Gyrations The Ghanaian Azonto As Well As The Nigerian Ashoko And The South African Gwara Gwara. Critical Reception
Spencer Kornhaber Of The Atlantic Described The Initial Reaction On Twitter As "a Gushing River Of Well-Deserved Praise" And The Video As "the Most Talked-About Music Video Of Recent Memory." Daniel Kreps Of Rolling Stone Commented That The Video "is A Surreal Visceral Statement About Gun Violence In America". Pitchfork Awarded The Song The Distinction Of "Best New Track". Billboard Critics Ranked It 10th Among The "greatest Music Videos Of The 21st Century." Mahita Gajanan Of Time Quoted Music History Professor Guthrie Ramsey At The University Of Pennsylvania He's Talking About The Contradictions Of Trying To Get Money The Idea Of Being A Black Man In America. It Comes Out Of Two Different Sound Worlds. Part Of The Brilliance Of The Presentation Is That You Go From This Happy Major Mode Of Choral Singing That We Associate With South African Choral Singing And Then After The First Gunshot It Moves Right Into The Trap Sound. Will Gompertz Arts Editor Of The BBC Asserted That "This Is America" Was A "powerful And Poignant Allegorical Portrait Of 21st Century America Which Warrants A Place Among The Canonical Depictions Of The USA From Grant Wood's American Gothic To Edward Hopper's Nighthawks From Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing The Delaware To America The Beautiful By Norman Lewis". In December 2018 Billboard Ranked "This Is America" As The 6th Best Song Of The Year. The Music Video Won The International Film Festival Of The Art Of Cinematography Camerimage Award For Best Cinematography In A Music Video As Well As The Grammy Award For Best Music Video At The 61st Grammy Awards. Cover Versions And Media Appearances
Glover Hosted The May 5 Episode Of The 43rd Season Of Saturday Night Live And Performed Two New Songs As Childish Gambino On The Same Episode The Second Of Which Was "This Is America". Daniel Kaluuya Best Known As The Star Of The Film Get Out Which The Music Video Reportedly References Introduced The Song's Performance. Several Artists Attracted Attention And Millions Of Views For Creating Covers Of The Song And Music Video With Altered Lyrics And Themes Retaining The Song's Instrumental And The General Structure Of Its Music Video. Nigerian Rapper Falz Released "This Is Nigeria" On May 25 Highlighting The Nation's Issues With Corruption And Organized Crime Among Others. The Music Video Also Spawned Popular Internet Memes Particularly Those In Which The Audio Was Replaced So That Childish Gambino Appeared To Be Dancing In Time To Another Song. Versions Using Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" And Earth Wind & Fire's "September" Were Some Of The Most Viewed. The Song Is Interpolated Into A Scene In The Film Guava Island. Chart Performance
"This Is America" Debuted At Number One On The US Billboard Hot 100 Becoming The 31st Song To Do So In The Chart's History. It Debuted With 78 000 Downloads Sold And 65.3 Million US Streams In The First Week. Its Music Video Accounted For 68% Of The Song's Streaming Total. "This Is America" Is Also Gambino's First Top 10 He Previously Reached Number 12 In August 2017 With "Redbone". "This Is America" Overtook Drake's "Nice For What" From The Top Position For Two Weeks. Gambino Is Also The Second Emmy Award-Winning Actor To Reach Number One On The Hot 100 The First Being Justin Timberlake Who Topped The Chart With "Can't Stop The Feeling!" In 2016. It Topped The Hot 100 For Two Weeks And Left The Top Ten After Five Weeks.
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Biography - Childish Gambino
Donald McKinley Glover Jr Born September 25 1983 Is An American Actor Comedian And Musician. As A Recording Artist He Usually Performs With The Stage Name Childish Gambino. While A Disk Jockey He Performs As McDJ. He First Came To Attention For His Work With Derrick Comedy And With The Help Of Tina Fey Was Hired At The Age Of 21 To Become A Writer For The NBC Comedy Series 30 Rock. He Later Played College Student Troy Barnes On The NBC Sitcom Community. After Several Self-Released Albums And Mixtapes Glover Signed To Glassnote Records In 2011 As Childish Gambino. He Released Camp On Glassnote On November 15 2011. His Second Studio Album Because The Internet Was Released On December 10 2013. Glover Jr Was Nominated For Two Grammy Awards In 2015 Best Rap Album For Because The Internet And Best Rap Performance For His Single "3005". Glover Jr Was Born At Edwards Air Force Base California And Raised In Stone Mountain Georgia. His Mother Beverly Smith Is A Retired Daycare Provider And His Father Donald Sr Is A Retired Postal Worker. His Parents Also Served As DeKalb County Foster Parents For 14 Years. He Was Raised A Jehovah's Witness. He Was Voted "Most Likely To Write For The Simpsons" In His High School Yearbook. Glover Jr Graduated From New York University's Tisch School Of The Arts With A Degree In Dramatic Writing In 2006. From 2006 To 2009 Glover Jr Was A Writer For The NBC Series 30 Rock Where He Also Had Occasional Cameo Appearances. He Was Presented The Writers Guild Of America Award For Best Comedy Series At The February 2009 Ceremony For His Work On The Third Season. Glover Jr's Stage Name Childish Gambino Came From The Wu-Tang Clan's Name Generator. On June 5 2008 He Released An Independent Album Titled Sick Boi. Glover Jr Would Then Become A Member Of The Sketch Comedy Group Derrick Comedy Along With Dominic Dierkes Meggie McFadden DC Pierson And Dan Eckman. The Group Wrote And Starred In A Feature-Length Film Mystery Team Released In Theaters In 2009. On September 17 2009 Childish Gambino Released The Independent Album Poindexter. A Pair Of Mixtapes Titled I Am Just A Rapper And I Am Just A Rapper 2 Were Released In Close Succession In 2010. Robert Scahill Added His Producing Expertise Helping With The Majority Of The Tracks. The Track Listings For Those Mixtapes Consist Of The Name Of The Song "he" Raps Followed By The Song He Raps Over. His Second Album Culdesac Was Set To Be Released On July 2 2010 But A Couple Of Last Minute Additions Caused The Album To Be Delayed For A Day. The Album Was Made Available On July 3. Glover Jr Has Stated In Interviews That On Sick Boi And Poindexter He Felt He Had To Hide Behind Gimmicks Such As Pink Hoodies But With His Subsequent Projects He Has Touched On More Personal Subject Matter Including Family Schoolyard Bullying Troubled Romantic Relationships Suicidal Thoughts And Alcoholism. He Has Disowned His 2005 Album The Younger I Get As The Too-Raw Ramblings Of What He Calls A "decrepit." Glover Jr's Stand-Up Special Aired On Comedy Central On March 19 2010. In May 2010 A Fan Suggested Glover Jr For The Role Of Peter Parker In The Then-Upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man Film Encouraging His Supporters To Retweet The Hashtag "#donald4spiderman". The Campaign Originally Started To See How Far Social Networking Could Carry A Message Quickly Gained A Large Following. The Call For Glover To Be Allowed To Audition For The Role Was Supported By Spider-Man Creator Stan Lee. Glover Jr Was Not Awarded An Audition And The Role Instead Went To Andrew Garfield. He Would Later Reveal That He Was Never Contacted By Anyone From Sony Pictures For The Role. Comics Writer Brian Michael Bendis Who Announced An African-American Version Of Spider-Man A Year Later Said He Had Conceived Of The Character Before Glover Jr's Campaign Went Viral. Bendis Gave Credit To Glover For Influencing The New Hero's Looks For Spider-Man After Seeing Him Dressed As Spider-Man On Community A Nod To The Campaign Bendis Said "I Saw Him In The Costume And Thought 'I Would Like To Read That Book.'" Glover Jr Would Later Voice This Incarnation Of Spider-Man On The Ultimate Spider-Man Animated Series. Glover Jr Received The Rising Comedy Star Award At The Just For Laughs Festival In July 2010. Glover Jr Was Featured In Gap's 2010 Holiday Ad Campaign. He DJs And Produces Electronic Music Under The Moniker "mcDJ" Pronounced "M-C-D-J" . His Music Is Often Made Available For Free Download Via His Website. On December 1 2010 Glover Jr Released The First Track Off Of His EP Titled "Be Alone". He Released The Next Track "Freaks And Geeks" As Well As A Five-Song Track List On February 11 2011. On February 25 Glover Jr Released The Dates For The IAMDONALD Tour And Also His Very First Music Video For "Freaks And Geeks". The Music Video Was Shot By Dan Eckman The Director Of The Derrick Comedy Troupe. This Song Was Later Used In An Adidas Commercial Featuring Dwight Howard. On March 8 2011 Glover Jr Released The EP Via His Official Website. On March 16 2011 Glover Jr Hosted The MtvU Woodie Awards Held Live At South By Southwest. On March 24 2011 Glover Jr Taped His One-Hour Comedy Special Weirdo For Comedy Central It Aired On November 19. Glover Jr Appeared At The 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival On June 9 In The 'This Tent' As Childish Gambino And June 11 At 'The Comedy Theater' With Bill Bailey Performing Stand Up. Comedy Central Streamed The Comedy Live On Their Website. On May 4 2011 In An Interview With TheHipHopUpdate Gambino Revealed That He Was Working On An LP To Be Released In September. On July 25 2011 Glover Jr Announced That His New Album Would Be Titled Camp. On October 8 During His Orlando Florida Concert He Announced Camp Would Be Released On November 15 2011. Glover Jr Worked With Friend And Film Composer Ludwig Göransson On The Debut Album. On August 20 2011 At The Los Angeles Rock The Bells Concert He Gave An Interview To AllHipHop.Com And He Announced To The Crowd That He Had Signed With Glassnote Records. On September 20 His First Official Single "Bonfire" Was Released. The IAMDONALD Tour Made 24 Stops In 34 Days Beginning With Ames Iowa On April 16 And Finishing With Minneapolis On May 19. In Between This Included Stops At Music Venues In Las Vegas Houston Washington And Atlanta. The Tour Was A One-Man Live Show That Consisted Of Rap Comedy And Video Segments. The Sign-Up Tour Was Glover Jr's Next Pre-Album Tour. He Visited 11 Cities Over The Course Of 38 Days In October And November 2011. Chidlish G Made A Website For The Tour Called Camp Gambino On November 19 Four Days After His Album Released. The Tour Featured Special Guest Danny Brown And Made 20 Stops During The Course Of 32 Days Along A Dates In California In December. On March 14 2012 Several Dates On The CAMP Tour Were Postponed Due To A Fractured Foot Childish Suffered On March 10 While Performing In Tampa Florida. The Tour Began In Austin Texas On April 5 And Ended August 10 In Hollywood California. On January 11 2012 Childish Gambino Announced On His Website That A New Mixtape Would Be Coming Out Soon. On April 2 He Released A New Song "Eat Your Vegetables" Through His Website. On May 14 Funkmaster Flex Premiered "Unnecessary " Featuring Schoolboy Q. On May 16 Gambino Released "We Ain't Them" Through His Website Produced By Himself And Frequent Collaborator Ludwig. On May 22 Glover Jr Appeared On Das Racist's Radio Show "Chillin' Island" Where He Premiered A New Song "Tell Me " Which Featured Himanshu Suri Aka Heems From Das Racist. On May 26 Glover Released "Black Faces" Featuring Nipsey Hussle And Produced By Boi-1da. On May 30 He Released A Third Track "Silk Pillow " Featuring Beck And Produced By Both Glover Jr And Beck. On June 25 He Revealed That The Mixtape Was To Be Released On July 4 2012. On June 26 Glover Jr Premiered Another New Track On Sway In The Morning On Shade 45 Entitled "One Up " Featuring His Brother Steve G. Lover. That Same Day He Stated That The Mixtape Would Be Titled Royalty Despite Previous Statements That It Would Not Be Called That. On July 4 2012 He Released Royalty For Free Via Digital Download. On July 7 2012 Gambino Released The Track "Body " Featuring Prodigy Which Did Not Make The Cut For The Mixtape. On July 24 2012 He Released The Music Video For "Fire Fly" Through His VEVO Account On YouTube. On August 21 2012 BBC Radio 1 Premiered Leona Lewis' New Song "Trouble" Off Her Upcoming Album Glassheart Which Features Childish Gambino. The Song Was Available For Purchase Via ITunes On October 7 And Peaked At #7 On The UK Singles Chart The Following Week Making It His First UK Top 10 Single. On November 4 2012 Ludwig Göransson Said In An Interview With Portable That He And Gambino Were In His Studio Coming Up With New Ideas For The Next Album Which Was To Be "bigger" And "with More People Involved." In 2013 Glover Jr Signed On To Create A Music-Themed Show For FX Titled Atlanta In Which He Will Star Write And Executive Produce. Consequently He Decided To Reduce His Work For NBC And Only Appears In The First Five Episodes Of Community's 13-Episode Fifth Season. Although Many TV Stations Were Interested In Picking Up His Half-Hour Comedy He Ultimately Picked FX Due To Their Willingness To Work Around His Touring Schedule. On October 6 2013 He Announced On Twitter That His Second Studio Album Was Completed. He Further Announced This At Homecoming Week At Penn State University Stating “I Got A New Album Coming Out Soon So This Is The Last Time We’re Gonna Play A Lot Of This Shit.” On October 8 2013 He Announced Its Title As Because The Internet And Revealed That It Would Be Released In December 2013. On October 21 2013 Glover Jr Released The First Single "3005" And Announced A Release Date For The Album As December 10 2013. On February 15 2014 The Rapper Launched His Deep Web Tour In The UK. On February 27 Childish Gambino Was Scheduled To Begin The United States Portion Of His Tour With A Gig At The Fox Theater In Oakland California. On June 6 2014 RIAA Certified Heartbeat Gold - Making It Glover's First Certification And Then On July 18 2014 RIAA Also Certified 3005 Gold Making It Glover's Second Certification. On October 2 2014 He Released A New Mixtape Titled STN MTN And The Next Day He Released An EP Titled Kauai. The Mixtape And The EP Follow The Story That Was Last Told In Because The Internet And Are Meant To Be A Joint Project Instead Of Separate Projects. On October 10 2014 Ubisoft Revealed That They Had Collaborated With Glover Jr To Incorporate His Song "Crawl" Into Far Cry 4. On December 5 2014 Glover Jr Was Nominated For Two Grammy Awards. He Was A Contender For Best Rap Album For Because The Internet Glassnote Records And Best Rap Performance For His Single “3005.” On March 21 2015 Glover Jr Won An MtvU Woodies Award For Best Video Woodie For The Song "Sober" From The Kauai EP. As Of February 2016 Because The Internet Has Been Certified Gold By The Recording Industry Association Of America For Shipping Over 500 000 Copies. Glover's Third Album Awaken My Love! Spawned The Single "Redbone" Which Peaked At Number Twelve On The Billboard Hot 100 And Eventually Earned Him His First Grammy Award. In 2018 Glover Released "This Is America" Which Debuted At Number-One On The Hot 100 And Won Four Grammy Awards Including For Song And Record Of The Year. 13 Glover's Fourth Album 3.15.20 Was Released In 2020. 14
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"This Is America" is a song by American rapper Donald Glover, under his musical stage name Childish Gambino. Written by Glover, Ludwig Göransson, and Jeffery Lamar Williams, and produced by Glover and Göransson, it was released on May 5, 2018, at the same time that Gambino was hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live. The song features background vocals by American rappers Young Thug (who also has writing credit as Williams), Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd, BlocBoy JB, Quavo of Migos, and 21 Savage. The song addresses the wider issue of gun violence in the United States, the high rate of mass shootings in the United States, along with other social issues like longstanding racism and discrimination.
The song's accompanying music video was directed by filmmaker Hiro Murai, a frequent Gambino collaborator. "This Is America" became the 31st song to debut at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming both Gambino's first number one and top ten single in the country. It has also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The song won in all four of its nominated categories at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Music Video. This made Gambino the first hip-hop artist to win Record of the Year and Song of the Year, and "This Is America" the first rap song to win these awards.
Composition
The song features a gospel-style choir and background contributions from various American rappers. Young Thug, Slim Jxmmi, BlocBoy JB, 21 Savage and Quavo each deliver an ad-lib. Young Thug returns to supply the song's outro. The lyrics primarily address black culture in the United States and gun violence in the country. It also touches on the subject of police brutality and misconduct. Pitchfork's Stephen Kearse described the song as a representation of the "tightrope of being black", with the song "built on the sharp contrast between jolly, syncretic melodies and menacing trap cadences". Bryan Rolli of Forbes calls it "a vicious, urgent take on modern trap music, as Glover adopts the clipped, percussive flow of his contemporaries atop crackling 808s and rumbling bass."
Media outlets reported that a number of listeners accused Gambino of plagiarism over "This Is America", pointing out the similarities between the song and "American Pharaoh" by Jase Harley. CBS News stated, "The tracks have a similar sound, and share similar themes in the lyrics." Harley stated that he felt "This Is America" was influenced by his song, but that he does not have an issue with it. Glover's manager, Fam Rothstein, denied any plagiarism.
Music video
The music video was directed by Hiro Murai and released on YouTube simultaneously with Gambino's performance of the song on Saturday Night Live. The video received about 12.9 million views in 24 hours, and has over 868 million views as of February 2023. In an interview with the New York Times, Murai discussed his upcoming season for Atlanta, a show created by and starring Glover. He stated, "There's sort of a world-weariness in both this season and the music video. They're both reactions to what's happening in the world."
The video contains many scenes involving violence. It starts off with a shirtless Gambino dancing through a warehouse, interacting with a series of chaotic scenes. According to Murai, the video was inspired by the films Mother! and City of God. Prettyman states "The video tests us, taunting us to keep pace as we try to decode every gesture and calculation". Choreographed by Sherrie Silver, Gambino and his entourage of young dancers perform several viral dance moves including the South African Gwara Gwara and "Shoot" popularized by BlocBoy JB, who is one of the ad-lib contributors on the song. Gambino's dancing is contrasted against moments of violence. Only 53 seconds into the video, Gambino shoots a man in the back of the head with a handgun, while assuming a comical stance similar to a Jim Crow caricature. The first person depicted as being shot in the video, a guitarist who had been accompanying Gambino's singing up to that point, was musician Calvin the Second, but was initially mistaken by many viewers to be the father of 17-year-old gun violence victim Trayvon Martin. This first shooting also marks a transition in the music, from an African "folk-inspired melody" to "dark, pulsing trap".
At a later point, Childish Gambino uses a Kalashnikov patterned automatic weapon to gun down a church choir, which viewers have interpreted as a reference to the 2015 Charleston church shooting. In both instances, a child appears from off-screen holding a red cloth, on which Gambino gently lays the weapon used, while the bodies are simply dragged away, which viewers have interpreted "as a reference to Americans' willingness to protect gun rights over people". In one of the moves while dancing, Gambino positions his arms as though he is threatening others with a gun. The music stops and people run away in fear, after which Gambino lights a joint. Scenes also involved children using their cell phones to record the chaos happening in the video, while Gambino sings the lyrics "This a celly / That's a tool". Martha Tesema, writer for website Mashable, stated that "cell phones have been used as tools to broadcast police shooting, rioting against, or choking black people in this country". Throughout the video, numerous vehicles from several decades ago are featured, many of them with their hazard lights flashing and the driver's side door ajar, which critics interpreted as representing fatal police shootings during traffic stops, particularly the shooting of Philando Castile, who was shot while in a 1997 Oldsmobile; others have interpreted that the older model cars represent the relative lack of upward mobility of African Americans. American singer SZA makes a cameo appearance towards the end of the video, seated atop one of these vehicles. The video ends with Gambino in a darkened portion of the warehouse, fearfully running towards the camera while being chased by several white people. Viewers have said this resembles scenes from the 2017 film Get Out.
The dance moves were based on various African dances such as Angolan gyrations, the Ghanaian Azonto, as well as the Nigerian Ashoko and the South African gwara gwara.
Critical reception
Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic described the initial reaction on Twitter as "a gushing river of well-deserved praise" and the video as "the most talked-about music video of recent memory." Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone commented that the video "is a surreal, visceral statement about gun violence in America". Pitchfork awarded the song the distinction of "Best New Track". Billboard critics ranked it 10th among the "greatest music videos of the 21st century." Mahita Gajanan of Time quoted music history professor Guthrie Ramsey at the University of Pennsylvania:
He's talking about the contradictions of trying to get money, the idea of being a black man in America. It comes out of two different sound worlds. Part of the brilliance of the presentation is that you go from this happy major mode of choral singing that we associate with South African choral singing, and then after the first gunshot it moves right into the trap sound.
Will Gompertz, arts editor of the BBC, asserted that "This Is America" was a "powerful and poignant allegorical portrait of 21st Century America, which warrants a place among the canonical depictions of the USA from Grant Wood's American Gothic to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, from Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware to America the Beautiful by Norman Lewis".
In December 2018, Billboard ranked "This Is America" as the 6th best song of the year.
The music video won the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video, as well as the Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 61st Grammy Awards.
Cover versions and media appearances
Glover hosted the May 5 episode of the 43rd season of Saturday Night Live, and performed two new songs as Childish Gambino on the same episode, the second of which was "This Is America". Daniel Kaluuya, best known as the star of the film Get Out which the music video reportedly references, introduced the song's performance.
Several artists attracted attention and millions of views for creating covers of the song and music video with altered lyrics and themes, retaining the song's instrumental and the general structure of its music video. Nigerian rapper Falz released "This Is Nigeria" on May 25, highlighting the nation's issues with corruption and organized crime among others.
The music video also spawned popular Internet memes, particularly those in which the audio was replaced so that Childish Gambino appeared to be dancing in time to another song. Versions using Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" were some of the most viewed.
The song is interpolated into a scene in the film Guava Island.
Chart performance
"This Is America" debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the 31st song to do so in the chart's history. It debuted with 78,000 downloads sold and 65.3 million US streams in the first week. Its music video accounted for 68% of the song's streaming total. "This Is America" is also Gambino's first top 10; he previously reached number 12 in August 2017 with "Redbone". "This Is America" overtook Drake's "Nice for What" from the top position for two weeks. Gambino is also the second Emmy Award-winning actor to reach number one on the Hot 100, the first being Justin Timberlake, who topped the chart with "Can't Stop the Feeling!" in 2016. It topped the Hot 100 for two weeks, and left the top ten after five weeks. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.