Stay Woke Childish Gambino Video

In the words of Childish Gambino (the musical moniker of singer-actor-comedian/creative genius Donald Glover): “If you want it You can have it If you need it (you better believe in something)” This song is infectiously funky, groovy and soulful. It’s tinged with 70s soul as the slapping bass pays homage to that 1976 classic”I’d Rather Be With You” by Bootsy Collins. Gambino’s high-pitched vocals against that mellow, smoky track is so delicious — no wonder the world is obsessing! Call me a little late to the game, but I’ve had this track on repeat all week and could not stop playing. As the past month has been quite busy with me traveling and road tripping (a birthday turned into a birth month — new post to come soon), it felt good to plug my guitar in and jam out to the simple riffs and licks in the song through GarageBand. I’m still in the process of learning how to create cleaner recordings and fuller sounds, so bare with me (any thoughts or comments would be appreciated as well). But boy does it feel good to record again!

But stay woke Niggas creepin’. One Response to “Stay Woke – Childish Gambino: Redbone”. Video Year in Review: Hansen’s Predictions 30 Years Out. How Did He Do? Meet the Press Devotes Hour to Climate. Proof that Shame works? Video Year in Review: Ocean Heat and Hurricanes. The video has quickly caught on fire, racking up more than 2 million views to date. The idea for the clip came simply from dad and daughter’s fondness for Gambino’s slinky, soulful tune.

Hope you enjoy. And stay woke.

The night I watched Childish Gambino’s video for “This Is America,” I was scared. Having skipped the song’s premiere on Saturday Night Live, I’d seen the images and their deconstructions on the internet all weekend.

And when I finally sat down to watch the full product, as opposed to just a collection of GIFs and clips, I didn’t even have it in me to turn on the sound. When it comes to “what people on the internet say about black insert word here,” I am instantly leery.

And, as a matter of course, I’m instantly fearful of any form of black public expression that white people either identify as something they can’t live without or pull away from. With zero sound, the images from Donald Glover’s latest musical project felt like monsters under the bed. I had a nightmare that night. The next morning, the headlines were predictable, analytical and, in a basic way, accurate.

Yes, Glover’s new work combines (insert description for juxtaposition of serious and jovial that represents how black people either stay sane, or don’t). And the new work certainly was designed to provoke (insert group of people here who don’t want to believe that the symbolism of black people killing other black people is ever effective). It is all of these things, certainly. Sometimes I don’t automatically wake up from a nightmare, even when I know I’m having one. There’s a weird part of me that knows I’m sleeping and wants to explore whether or not I can tackle the specific fear. In this video, there’s an eerily similar pace: Things come and go, and images from the recesses from your brain pop up in ways you never imagined. You’ve already read about the guns. Download soal cpns 2018.

The white horse. The African dance influences. And, of course, SZA. But those are specifics in a deliberate and detailed oeuvre already witnessed by likely more than hundreds of millions of people. But to be clear, this isn’t about anointing Glover/Gambino as some saint. We’ve all seen how problematic that turns out in many cases, and it’s also unfair to the artists themselves. The “genius” category puts everything in a spotlight that is skewed and often pointless — and this is not to discredit Glover’s work by any means.

Format usb drive linux. However, Glover is not without his wild statements that some may find problematic. He’s said a few things about women of color, that are gross on every level.

There are about rape, about the Black Lives Matter movement — that would make some immediately write him off. He believes, specifically with regard to comedy, that “nothing is off-limits.” The difference between Glover and, say, Kanye West (who is completely outta control; these theories of performance art, are stupid on his part) or or any other number of black male artists who’ve been elevated as creative stalwarts is that Glover’s done it almost completely from the inside. He was a writer for the beloved 30 Rock, and then Tina Fey turned around. He starred on Community, a show that, while, was beloved by an interesting sect of America. You might recall that comedy legend Chevy Chase, whose character was noted for his “,” was booted off that program. FX’s Atlanta, scope and influence, but the fact that he got such a plum gig at all is an indication of exactly how much Hollywood loves him.

And that’s before we even get to, his movies and his historic role as Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Glover is an insider who’s been allowed to influence within the real framework of the Hollywood system, as opposed to crash-landing as an outsider. Which is important to take into consideration when we view “This Is America.” Glover’s been making content in many forms for years, and what the new song and video represent is a magnum opus-like culmination of all of that. The sequencing of the video alone is incredible. What the artist presents as chaos is less about being happenstance and random and more about being inevitable and ever-present. That’s a reality that’s hard to portray in such a short space of time.

It’s also scary. The inevitability of destruction. The specific mimicry of deplorable stereotypes that call back to an era we try to forget. Watching him dance the Jim Crow dance is jarring and familiar, which is both equally bizarre and, again, frightening — the real scope of the black experience in this country. It replays over and over again on television, movies, the internet and, yes, music videos.

Glover/Gambino is not exploiting as much as he’s reminding us how well-woven all of it is into our consciousness. And, just like in a dream, where you’re never really sure what’s real and what’s a perverse version of your brain creating a reality you don’t know you can trust, this video makes you ask questions. How am I supposed to know what everything means if it’s all free-flowing, dangerous and unstoppable? That’s the reality of being black in this country in 2018. We live in a nation where we have to. School administrators get violent with kids who are.

The Ku Klux Klan is. Police officers are, so we can apparently feel better about fearing for our lives because the tormentors appear with a familiar name. Even with that being well-known, our generational trauma somehow allows us to.

It’s insane on every level. A post shared by (@snoopdogg) on May 7, 2018 at 10:56am PDT We’ve got 4-year-olds who are adept at handling guns. I won’t say it, but you know — Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) They do so in front of they don’t respect. Yet, all the while, these presentations of Gambino’s are somehow inspirational because it’s all we’ve ever had.