Did Donald Glover plagiarize "This is America"?

[DeuceZ]

Damn

 

[Street Knowledge]

He's handling it the right way. This obsession some of ya'all have with making money and lawsuits instead of making good music all makes it harder to actually hear good music. This is why it took me so long to get a hold of a copy of the Grey Album.

How dare people want to get paid and recognized for their work

 

[Lotto]

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[ColiBomaye]

"America.. I just checked my following list, and you motherfukkers owe me"

In a sick way, I'm kinda glad Bino (allegedly) ripped this song off. The Bino song had a good video but the song itself was a bit lacking. Now the original joint was discovered and thankfully it slaps much harder

 

[Sohh_lifted]

Like redbone was inspirited by another song but the producer said he never heard it

so he never heard the bootsy collins track? smh

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You aint never made shyt in your life and never will at this rate :boshdistressed:

I have zero doubt that I've been paid more for my creative output than you ever have.

Done had more commercial entities come to me to formally ask for intellectual rights to my shyt too.

What kinda foolish thinking is that? Just because it's entertainment to you doesn't mean it's still not a business. Tell that to broke Black artists who got the Cadillac Records treatment. I guess you think all artists should create work for free.

Somebody is going to make money off of your work and ideas. You best be compensated. He wasn't at all. This is why numbers, sales and business matters in music. If a good artist isn't fairly compensated, how can we expect them to keep creating great music while making no real income?

Artists can always be compensated off of their work. Not off of someone else's work.

This idea that artists should get compensated off of someone else's work is brand new. Literally didn't exist until the 20th century, and not in this form until the late 20th century. Try and name the FIRST time that someone sued for royalties off of a piece someone else made - not off of the replication of their own piece, but off of someone's entirely different piece because it sounded "too similar." Try and find it. The first time it happened.

Ya'all don't even realize that this has nothing to do with artists. Artists who are actually creating art get paid peanuts for their work and have to scrape with the hustle, and always will. If they make anything then for 99% of them it's gonna be off of performance, not off of "rights". The whole idea of intellectual rights is protected by law so that rich people and capitalists who own other people's shyt can score huge money. The whole "artists" argument is an excuse - 95+% of the money made off of such rights goes to people other than the artists in the end, when you add in the posthumous shyt.

How dare people want to get paid and recognized for their work

People should get recognized for their work. People should get paid for their work. It's when you wanna get paid for someone else's work that it gets silly.

He's gonna get more recognition and more pay off of this than if Donald Glover had never made the video at all. So you think he'd prefer that Glover hadn't been influenced by him?

And like I said, ya'all don't even realize that you're a tool. They yell about "the artist" when the artist is making a tiny % of the money off these rights. The vast majority is going to other people who had nothing to do with the creative event at all.

Please, I challenge you like I challenged the others - when do you think was the first time that artists in general started getting paid for the royalties off of work that other artists had made after them?

 

[AMcV'88]

its so clearly lifted that its embarrassing and so are some of the excuses.
at least guys like French Montana buy the song before adding to it and putting it out.

Donald Glover could have changed this kids life with this song.

also, if this was Drake people in here giving Glover a pass would have a problem and the thread would also bet sitting at 50 pages.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

the kid should fight for a writing credit

 

[ChatGPT-5]

Crazy thing is I always thought he bit Lecrae

damn this was hard.

 

[The Phoenix]

Songs sound as if they are in the same ball park. I'm not 100% it was bitten. A friend of mine said he wouldn't have even recognized them as sounding similar if I hadn't mentioned it beforehand.

I think Childish's song has a better harmony. I think Jase's version has better rap verses. I can accept them as two good songs. And let's not act like that This Is America video wasn't fire. Now you have another young brotha out there being heralded for his artistry. Now you probably have more good shyt to listen to that you didn't know of 2 days ago. Take it as a win.

 

[Sauce Dab]

This is his manager

 

[Flight]

Called that man Toronto Akademiks..damn

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

All these dudes swag burglarers

shyt ironic
Cause stealing someone's shyt and acting like it was your invention "Is America"

 

[CrimsonTider]

This is his manager

 

[The Mad Titan]

Man you know how many artist create songs that sound REALLY similar?

And how many hear something and then recreate there own version?


Some of your fav rap songs and just songs in general were probably created that way.


The internet is weird man, everybody smart and dumb at the same time.


That would be like dc suing marvel for thanos and deadpool.

"Wade wilson" is really similar to slade wilson

Thanos is alot like Darkseid

Quicksliver is really similar to the flash