Was “This Is America” by Childish Gambino the most Gassed song in the last few years?

[Don Homer]

What does thecoli think?

It's currently trending on Twitter now because people are saying it's overrated as hell now

It did win song or record of the year at the Grammys. It doesn’t get any kinda play any more and I don’t know anyone coming back to it tho

 

[BobbyWojak]

video was alright but cacs ruined it, song aged poorly

Sampling ad-libs from other rappers was a cool idea

 

[Secure Da Bag]

As a video A+. As a song B+.

 

[ThirdAct]

I like the song, but the video is so memorable that it feels weird listening to the song by itself. Nothing wrong with that I don't think, the video enhanced it

 

[Unknown Poster]

The hype around this song when it came out was something I have never seen before.

I remember watching a video on Twitter of Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino performing "This is America" shortly after it dropped live in front of a sold out Crowd and he had that place shaking like a ruptured breast implant.

In reality it's an underwhelming song and it's only propelled by the visuals. I like it still.

Still a cultural moment but it passed. I've haven't bumped it in years.

 

[Corndog]

Video was creative and cool, song was eh. Pretty much sums up Gambino entirely, tbh. He's never been a good rapper. Sounds totally amateurish on the track. Go check out the song he did with Ab Soul and Schoolboy. It's like a college dude doing karaoke next to two cats who were literally born to rap

 

[DontEemTry]

He's basically a filmmaker so it always made sense that the visuals were more powerful than the song.

 

[Renegade47]

song is ass. if this song dropped before the video people would have called it what it was. trash

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

The beginning of the song was good, but the rest was meh

 

[I'm Blackman]

Nah song was dope and video was really dope.

 

[CHICAGO]

DIDNT HE STEAL THIS SONG ALSO?



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[Brandsdale]

song is iigh

video is a really dope concept



think the overall reception did so well because of the time it was released and was an "answer" to the profilings and shootings.

 

[steadyrighteous]

Everything Donald Glover did in general was gassed and overhyped into oblivion

 

[Don Homer]

Everything Donald Glover did in general was gassed and overhyped into oblivion

this is facts tho. atlanta was cool, but u can tell it was up its own ass the last 2 seasons

 

[Ribbs]

People oversold the song and the video as something deep when everything about it was vague and made up their own narratives about it.