All art is subjective, giving me the right to interpretation. My interpretation is this: He is racist against white people, and wamts everyone else to be, too, making him a hypocrite. Furthermore, the only music more annoying than auto tuned mumble rap is dubstep, making his "music" total garbage. And finally, "Childish Gambino" can be taken to mean "immature thug" which isn't exactly something to be bragging about. I hope he O.D.s on Xanax.
So you just gonna disregard the 17 seconds of silence that represent the fact that there was a minute of silence for every student killed at Stoneman Douglas. It's powerful because it shows you exactly how fast we move on from showing our respects to acting like nothing happened. This video is amazing and extremely thought provoking. I hope people aren't just watching it but also dissecting it the way I have been since it came out.
i remember the lack of respect Donald got in the hip hop community after becoming a rapper. Now, this man is literally doing everything. From atlanta, to having a platinum Rnb record, to directing and staring in atlanta, now this. it's all love, gambino is one talented man.
The best part is that Gambino will never explain the video, and neither will Hiro Murai, the director of the video, which I am grateful for, it leaves the work open to any sort of interpretation.
Blue Nova i agree,that's what it should be those ways we decipher nothingness, something akin to the ideomotor effect...maybe but one person can share their vision...but don't think we'll always follow it... Hell I can make a convincing argument...that this is about the south rising again
Celly and tool might refer to people using their cellphone to record the violence and unjustness around them to be able to use it as a tool to defend themselves
Literally anyone can be....this video isnt about racism. Its about violence in America in general. Everyone makin this about race and actin like white, asian or hispanic people dont deal with the same thing
When he said: "that's a celly, that's a tool"(confirmed by one of the dancers) it's means that instead recording fights and other violent stuff call someone
Eman the Heartbreak They took the time to actually analyze and let people weigh in, rather than just jumping on it just to get the story out. Quality over speed.
Exactly dude. Genius didn't have to rush because they DO this, they don't have to beat the masses. Sooo many major publications that don't even give a fuck about rap knew it would be a hot topic so they all were scrambling to make a video with the same headass title "5 tHinGs yOu MigHt'Ve mIssEd in ThIs iS AmEriCa" lol
Literally every video I see explaining this song is different, I love it, it's actually making people think and not just suck whatever bullshit the media feeds people
"I wanted to just make a good song,something to play on 4th of July" Creates a song with meaning deeper than a well and references tougher to decode than the indus script
The main thing everyone is missing is the third shooting. It might not be obvious but he tried to shoot a third time. The kids run away and he probably could have got at least one of them if he had a gun. The absence of the gun is what prevents the shooting. I know Americans like to argue that "Guns don't kill people, people kill people", but it becomes a lot more difficult. No one has ever committed a massacre single handedly with out the use of a gun, knives are useless from a distance and you have to be up close and personal, so the victim stands a chance at escape. Take a way guns and murder still exists but drive bys and high school massacres ect become a thing of the past. Also I clicked because I thought Childish was doing an "Official Lyrics & Meaning video", like I'd been waiting for. I don't think he ever will though.
Since when do criminals only get guns legally? A gun ban would take them away from law-abiding citizens, leaving them unarmed. Answer this: who is harder to kill? An armed citizen, or an unarmed citizen?
This is why I love Childish Gambino. He’s got some fire tracks, but also tracks that make you think about society and what is going on with the world around us.
Jacob Sartorius Genius is an established lyrics service and Gambino is one of the most popular musicians on the internet. Absolutely nothing about *this man* spreading.
Kids only see it as their favourite rapper who happens to be black being brought down by the system because hes taking his opportunity for granted by doing stupid shit like he did before he had these opportunities.
FreshBeats don't be so fucking triggered, he didn't even give any racist remarks, he just wanted to point out why Kodak Black was mentioned in the lyrics.
You forgot that when the video almost ended when he was just like sleeping but still standing up while doing the fake gun act, it was a 17 seconds of silence for the 17 kids that died in the florida school shooting, soo ye.
There are a BUNCH of interpretations about the lyrics...this is just one of them. Others think the lyrics mock hip hop music today....regardless, this is True art
Mega0003000 i think that Gambino was aware of the inherent contradictions involved, and that they can both celebrate and condemn culture, whilst keeping in tension that people are both a victim of their circumstances and, through otherworldly determination, able to overcome that programming somehow. Countless stories attest to this. So it can be both an appraisal and serious pulling-up on an issue, and a making-aware.
you forgot to mention "this is celly, thats a tool" also was talking about america/the facility they are in being like a prison cell and how prisons are used as a tool in america for the racist system or whatever you wanna call it
Ezra Przytyk There's been a few innocent men put in jail in history but a lot of them were actually white. The statistic that's telling is that over 70% of men in jail were raised by a single mother with no father figure in the picture.
its meant to be broken down like that by different people.. the lyrics are minimalistic instead of complex for a reason. you think the only meanings were supposed to get from them is what is directly said?
This is one of the most masterfully done videos for a Song that is as much of an anthem in our culture as ever was. In interviews, Glover is very quiet about the message in the lyrics and video. Given the polarization on racism in the US even today, it’s wise for him to let audiences and critics judge it not for whay he says about it, but what they personally can take away from it. All artists want their audiences to feel something, even their critics. This is nothing short of brilliance And our time.
Wow! great Job. I'm not good at breaking stuff like this down ,in fact, I let it go five years ago, only to still discover it was still stuck in my craw. now you break it down in a matter of minutes. Thank you. I'll check out your other videos.
I find it mildly frustrating when music artists don’t tell the meaning of their video but I find it better for me and others because we can theorize what it means just for the thrill of making something out.
This is the most amazing song / video / art / messaging I've ever seen. I've watched this video so many times and all the many commentary videos and discussions. Amazing.
I think he was saying that while blacks are being oppressed and injustices are being done to us everyday, that we sit around and don't do anything about it. Its like he's saying that we would rather be entertained than fight for our cause. All were doing is shucking and jiving for the man. Just like the minstrel days all they considered blacks good for was entertaining. How people get caught up listening to music about being fly and dancing but dont stand for anything. Were ignoring the violence around us and forgetting out real struggle because we are being manipulated by social media and the media in general.
+mila renolds Doesn't oppression mean someone else is directly responsible for another's misfortunes? I don't think the lack of generational wealth or being poor means you're being oppressed. Some African-Americans were oppressed a long-time ago, but that doesn't give them the right to cause mayhem and oppress others as retribution today.
+Salted long gone? Have you ever played Monopoly? At some point in the game, you know it's all over, the upper hand has been won, and there's no way you can come up.
This guy tho...the way he articulates his argument with emphasis with things he wants the viewers to really remember helps me engaged in this video instead of getting distracted
I mean, I imagined it was pretty clear that there was commentary on black on black violence. I mean, _a black person is doing the shooting._ _Of other black people._
3:08 do you remember that in the past a "human zoo" was a thing? Maybe that is what Childish Gambino want to say, he doesn't want white people laughing at the caged "black people " in the zoo and he want the white people feel how it feel to be black in America I don't know... Maybe I was wrong or maybe I was right... Tell me your opinion by replying this comment Ps: sorry for the bad grammar
Thanks for asking for other opinions, I hope you respect mine. I think the video was less about black violence but more about American violence as a whole. There are Hispanics, Asians. and other races that are being suppressed.
The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions.
Just read the lyrics with out the music and it's true poetry. Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit", made people uncomfortable too and had bold explicit lyrics but that's what art does. It provokes, opens your mind and starts an interpretation. Why hide the truth?
The 4th of July usually is celebrated by uber-patriotism which generally revolve around a sanitized/white-washed version of who we are as a nation. I think that Glover is being a bit satirical in his statement, perhaps wanting the audience to not get caught up in the fictionalized version of the US. This is America.
Personally, I thought the video was about gun violence, and racism in America like everyone else. But then I read a comment on the Insider's video that interprets Gambino as the current "black culture" in America. I won't go too far into detail, but in a nutshell. The man in the chair, and the choir symbolize past black culture. They're killed off, and we're left with Gambino who represents today's black culture as I've said before.
Why does everyone think this is so deep? And why can't everyone easily see what it's conveying? I don't understand why people don't understand this song and why they think it's *deep*.
Reed Ferguson Honest opinion: the song isn’t even like good. Like, Logic and Eminem have conveyed similar messages while dropping bars. I really don’t get what’s so special about this. The music video might have symbolisms, but why do I have to watch the music video for the song to make sense to me?
@@trystanfresh “Kendrick” ? Lol. Nobody was talking about “racism against the black” (a phrase which sounds racist. Wtf is “the black?” Just say “black people.”) You’re being disingenuous and misrepresenting what I said. You’re trying to say that symbolism is an essential component of music. I’m just saying that other rappers have addressed similar issues while also displaying better skill in wordplay, rhyming, and flow. You could disagree on that point as that’s completely subjective. Just don’t bring up other issues because I really wasn’t talking about any of that.
The final scene, for me, brought back images from older movies of escaped slaves being hunted by slave catchers. I’ve watched a few reactions, though, and so far no one else seems to have picked up on it. So maybe I’m just imagining it.
I think he did everything in a way that could have many interpretations. If there was one set meaning to his lyrics, people wouldn't try to figure out how it personally made them feel, it gives them the opportunity to fill in every possible meaning the topics he's broadcasting can have.
Jp Dolocanog blocka is meant to be the sound of the gun which is followed by him saying blaow, why would Childish Gambino even reference Drake’s shooter lmao
If u listen to the song at the beginning with headphones ur left ear hears "we just want to party" and ur right ear hears "we just want the money" it's crazy
Huh, I thought he was speaking to the black community which does the huge majority of crime and killings of the blacks. Celebrating the lifestyle, going all I am fitty I am pretty, I am on gucci,... while killing other blakcs the video does not seem like its really targeted against some white being racists Its the protagonist of the video who points you to Celly aafter he just show someone, misdirect fffrom himself. The ffact that you gave the video 3 something minutes feels kinda strange, like its not worth your time to go deeper, like when will be the next song this deep in possibilities and exposure and it gats kinda waved
“I just wanted to make a good song that people can play on the 4th of July” 😭😭😭
Prod. By L.Dre very ironic
Prod. By L.Dre my same reaction
I swear ppl didn't get that!!! I love this man..... No Homo
Hey while y’all here, I made a video of me making a beat sampling this song on my page 👌🏾
Actually it's very on point to play it in the 4th of july...
that video was literally ART ... no joke. i never catch myself watching music videos more than once but his video was so eye-catching !!
SimplyFreshdew I haven't watched a music video in so long (they're all kinds the same anymore) but this video is such a masterpiece
Watch Kendrick Lamar’s music videos
and yet you find some jackasses talk about IQ of black people..... This is America...
All art is subjective, giving me the right to interpretation. My interpretation is this:
He is racist against white people, and wamts everyone else to be, too, making him a hypocrite. Furthermore, the only music more annoying than auto tuned mumble rap is dubstep, making his "music" total garbage.
And finally, "Childish Gambino" can be taken to mean "immature thug" which isn't exactly something to be bragging about.
I hope he
O.D.s on Xanax.
SimplyFreshdew same
So you just gonna disregard the 17 seconds of silence that represent the fact that there was a minute of silence for every student killed at Stoneman Douglas. It's powerful because it shows you exactly how fast we move on from showing our respects to acting like nothing happened.
This video is amazing and extremely thought provoking. I hope people aren't just watching it but also dissecting it the way I have been since it came out.
I never caught that. It's amazing the things that we're still finding throughout this video years later.
@@mc891969 tf u talking this comment was 2 yrs ago. the yr this music video was made
Do you want people to keep sticking to tragedies and not move on with life?
I learned more from the comments than the video
It’s about lyrics so it’s not disregarding anything
It hit hard when they said “you’re just a barcode” 😶
Oof
matthew mcknight what does that mean though
matthew mcknight thugger said it surprisingly 😂😂😂
Or a toetag
listen to Saba - Life
i remember the lack of respect Donald got in the hip hop community after becoming a rapper. Now, this man is literally doing everything. From atlanta, to having a platinum Rnb record, to directing and staring in atlanta, now this. it's all love, gambino is one talented man.
Prodohue Yeah, he's gone a long way since his first mixtapes, and he's changed the contents of his music quite a lot, for the better imho
I thought it was "don't catch you slippin NOW"
it is. you can hear him say it clearly in the snl performance.
LlamaMaster it not lmaoooo, the Studio release the lyrics
Moxas me too
Moxas thought it was “don’t catch you slipping though”
I Dunno Me too.
There’s a billion different messages and ways people will intake the video.
Blue Nova literally
Blue Nova thats the truth
The best part is that Gambino will never explain the video, and neither will Hiro Murai, the director of the video, which I am grateful for, it leaves the work open to any sort of interpretation.
Blue Nova not really, it isn’t that complex.
Blue Nova i agree,that's what it should be those ways we decipher nothingness, something akin to the ideomotor effect...maybe but one person can share their vision...but don't think we'll always follow it...
Hell I can make a convincing argument...that this is about the south rising again
"Lyrics explained" only like 4 lyrics actually explained.
FORREAL I LEARNED NOTHING LIKE ????
中 you learned nothing.... Watch it again.
There's not much to the lyrics. Without the controversial video, the song isnt much.
Flaquis exactly . the song doesn’t say too much . it’s the video
dznArro And the video is not his creation, he's just an actor.
"I just wanted to make a good song ... something people can play at the 4th of July"
ok.
Arceo Infinity He’s trolling hard haha
Even this quote has context! 4th of July haha.
Arceo Infinity that sounds like something he would’ve said about Redbone 😂
Savage af
A song black people can play on the 4th of July
Probably one of the best music videos of the year.
No. Ever
definitely
Jim Som not close
A$AP Forever is up there
ATM j cole
Celly and tool might refer to people using their cellphone to record the violence and unjustness around them to be able to use it as a tool to defend themselves
Ellie M i said that also
Look at the picture... It clearly looks like a prison... cell... celly... and the smartphone is your cell... the tool to keep people distracted...
"... being black in America, where you can be arrested or killed at any moment"
That's just sad.
richa trivedi that didn’t age well
Literally anyone can be....this video isnt about racism. Its about violence in America in general. Everyone makin this about race and actin like white, asian or hispanic people dont deal with the same thing
@@BOSSxGLITCHES but you just made it exactly about race.
@@renae.peculiar4886 no I didnt...I was saying everyone deals with it regardless of race
@USSR reread what i said once again..and their is definitely white priviledge in america.
Genius definitely had the best breakdown out of everyone
LegitMusic Wacth Insider,has a little more to explain
Dude Decent send me the link
LegitMusic look up "Insider Childish Gumbino" on TH-cam
If you enjoyed the symbolism of this video, you'll like this too. th-cam.com/video/RhhsYw2XVZI/w-d-xo.html
Nope
This dude who’s breaking down the song was probably the English teachers favorite student with how well he breaks down the song
When he said: "that's a celly, that's a tool"(confirmed by one of the dancers) it's means that instead recording fights and other violent stuff call someone
My English class had an assignment about this today
cmdridah Damn that's cool. What did you guys discuss?
cmdridah lame you should have done my beautiful dark twisted fantasy or to pimp a butterfly or good kid maad city
cmdridah what did yall discuss?
Aristides Gonzalez 60 people do.
this song really aint that deep smh
genius > Washington Post & all the others who made a similar video
Eman the Heartbreak They took the time to actually analyze and let people weigh in, rather than just jumping on it just to get the story out. Quality over speed.
Ariel Epouhe facts
This is what you'd expect from Genius, tho. They take their time to make the analyzation as accurate as possible.
Exactly dude. Genius didn't have to rush because they DO this, they don't have to beat the masses. Sooo many major publications that don't even give a fuck about rap knew it would be a hot topic so they all were scrambling to make a video with the same headass title "5 tHinGs yOu MigHt'Ve mIssEd in ThIs iS AmEriCa" lol
Insider had a much better piece on this
Literally every video I see explaining this song is different, I love it, it's actually making people think and not just suck whatever bullshit the media feeds people
why don't you get him on here?
BRK BLK he said he is not going to explain the lyrics
because genius only brings trash ass rappers into their offices.
Ziggy The Virgo logic ?
Glover said he won’t explain it
He wont explain it... That why they had to explain it for him.
"I wanted to just make a good song,something to play on 4th of July"
Creates a song with meaning deeper than a well and references tougher to decode than the indus script
The main thing everyone is missing is the third shooting. It might not be obvious but he tried to shoot a third time. The kids run away and he probably could have got at least one of them if he had a gun. The absence of the gun is what prevents the shooting. I know Americans like to argue that "Guns don't kill people, people kill people", but it becomes a lot more difficult. No one has ever committed a massacre single handedly with out the use of a gun, knives are useless from a distance and you have to be up close and personal, so the victim stands a chance at escape. Take a way guns and murder still exists but drive bys and high school massacres ect become a thing of the past.
Also I clicked because I thought Childish was doing an "Official Lyrics & Meaning video", like I'd been waiting for. I don't think he ever will though.
I commented on this video because I caught it early any other and it would just get lost in the swamp of rehashed theories and opinions.
Since when do criminals only get guns legally? A gun ban would take them away from law-abiding citizens, leaving them unarmed. Answer this: who is harder to kill? An armed citizen, or an unarmed citizen?
I thought that was to show that even the unarmed black man is feared
Hidden One yea all you have to worry about is falling off of the planet
thevideolesschannle 🔥🔥
This is why I love Childish Gambino. He’s got some fire tracks, but also tracks that make you think about society and what is going on with the world around us.
This man has spread on social networking sites in a crazy way that is especially great in the game Battle Grand
Jacob Sartorius
Genius is an established lyrics service and Gambino is one of the most popular musicians on the internet. Absolutely nothing about *this man* spreading.
You do not know I saw him on several pages on Facebook
Jacob Sartorius 🤦♂️
Kodak Black was charged for unlicensed firearms aswell.
Emmanuel Haro he has done tons of crimes don’t pull the fucking race card please don’t.
FreshBeats I wasn't, I was referring to the gun control issue + entertainers discussed in the video.
Emmanuel Haro That's what happens when you have an unlicensed firearm tho!!
Kids only see it as their favourite rapper who happens to be black being brought down by the system because hes taking his opportunity for granted by doing stupid shit like he did before he had these opportunities.
FreshBeats don't be so fucking triggered, he didn't even give any racist remarks, he just wanted to point out why Kodak Black was mentioned in the lyrics.
You forgot that when the video almost ended when he was just like sleeping but still standing up while doing the fake gun act, it was a 17 seconds of silence for the 17 kids that died in the florida school shooting, soo ye.
3:07
Interesting that Pain from Naruto also wanted everyone to experience what pain really feels like. Pretty messed up stuff
There are a BUNCH of interpretations about the lyrics...this is just one of them. Others think the lyrics mock hip hop music today....regardless, this is True art
Mega0003000 i think that Gambino was aware of the inherent contradictions involved, and that they can both celebrate and condemn culture, whilst keeping in tension that people are both a victim of their circumstances and, through otherworldly determination, able to overcome that programming somehow. Countless stories attest to this. So it can be both an appraisal and serious pulling-up on an issue, and a making-aware.
2:09 Jaques gets shot and killed by a SWAT team right after he utters these words, RIP Jaques :p
you forgot to mention "this is celly, thats a tool" also was talking about america/the facility they are in being like a prison cell and how prisons are used as a tool in america for the racist system or whatever you wanna call it
Nice 'copy, paste' from another video man!
Ezra Przytyk Lol such a reach
Ezra Przytyk There's been a few innocent men put in jail in history but a lot of them were actually white. The statistic that's telling is that over 70% of men in jail were raised by a single mother with no father figure in the picture.
tell me where i copied and pasted this from? i didnt.
its meant to be broken down like that by different people.. the lyrics are minimalistic instead of complex for a reason. you think the only meanings were supposed to get from them is what is directly said?
Every time you’re not focusing he brings you back
This is one of the most masterfully done videos for a Song that is as much of an anthem in our culture as ever was. In interviews, Glover is very quiet about the message in the lyrics and video. Given the polarization on racism in the US even today, it’s wise for him to let audiences and critics judge it not for whay he says about it, but what they personally can take away from it. All artists want their audiences to feel something, even their critics. This is nothing short of brilliance And our time.
Wow! great Job. I'm not good at breaking stuff like this down ,in fact, I let it go five years ago, only to still discover it was still stuck in my craw. now you break it down in a matter of minutes. Thank you. I'll check out your other videos.
I find it mildly frustrating when music artists don’t tell the meaning of their video but I find it better for me and others because we can theorize what it means just for the thrill of making something out.
Finally!! I've been waiting this from you!!
Ill bet kanye is hella jealous. He wants to be the most controversial
Wolf Gang - How dare people have a perspective to share says the person sharing a perspective.
Wolf Gang then why actively undermine the value of the artistic message by referring to its message as a product of an echo chamber mentality?
Please stop the comparison
Jealous? Kanye literally tweeted that he saw Bino as a "free thinker". Ye obviously respects him.
FluxDigital ahh didnt know that. I dont have twitter. I take that kanye jab back then
This is the most amazing song / video / art / messaging I've ever seen. I've watched this video so many times and all the many commentary videos and discussions. Amazing.
I think he was saying that while blacks are being oppressed and injustices are being done to us everyday, that we sit around and don't do anything about it. Its like he's saying that we would rather be entertained than fight for our cause. All were doing is shucking and jiving for the man. Just like the minstrel days all they considered blacks good for was entertaining. How people get caught up listening to music about being fly and dancing but dont stand for anything. Were ignoring the violence around us and forgetting out real struggle because we are being manipulated by social media and the media in general.
How exactly are blacks in America being oppressed?
+mila renolds Doesn't oppression mean someone else is directly responsible for another's misfortunes? I don't think the lack of generational wealth or being poor means you're being oppressed. Some African-Americans were oppressed a long-time ago, but that doesn't give them the right to cause mayhem and oppress others as retribution today.
+Salted long gone? Have you ever played Monopoly? At some point in the game, you know it's all over, the upper hand has been won, and there's no way you can come up.
I was waiting for this video to drop. Thanks
1:24 is it weird that before I saw the actual lyrics to this part, I heard underpants instead of hunnid bands?
I still hear underpants.
But then again, I don’t know what hunnid bands means.
Scott Sandifer hunnid bands is money 💰
This guy tho...the way he articulates his argument with emphasis with things he wants the viewers to really remember helps me engaged in this video instead of getting distracted
you... you really don't think there's any commentary on black on black violence? really?
Moliminous they probably do but would never actually address it, i see it everyday coming from chicago
Well if they admitted that was a big problem then it would overshadow the entire black lives matter movement trending in the social justice craze
Moliminous word
I mean, I imagined it was pretty clear that there was commentary on black on black violence.
I mean, _a black person is doing the shooting._
_Of other black people._
You gotta be white to say this bullshit
finally I been waiting on this
3:08 do you remember that in the past a "human zoo" was a thing? Maybe that is what Childish Gambino want to say, he doesn't want white people laughing at the caged "black people " in the zoo and he want the white people feel how it feel to be black in America
I don't know... Maybe I was wrong or maybe I was right... Tell me your opinion by replying this comment
Ps: sorry for the bad grammar
Thanks for asking for other opinions, I hope you respect mine. I think the video was less about black violence but more about American violence as a whole. There are Hispanics, Asians. and other races that are being suppressed.
@@pressedinthecar I guess that's why it's called "this is America"
So much people needed this video
I had to replay the music video so many times to catch all of the symbolism and it really hit me hard 😶
1:43 that’s what it’s like to be anyone in america
✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
1:32 The 15 seconds of silence was for the parkland shooting.
0:22 it’s “don’t catch you slippin now”
Waited for this!!
"i got the plug in oaxaca"🇲🇽
1:50 also represents how fast a joyous thing can take a drastic turn so quickly in America this day.
This was needed
THIS VIDEO'S FUCKING AVAILABLE IN ENGLAND NOW!!!! THANK YOU GENIUS!!!!
17 seconds silence for the 17 students
Without the video the song wouldn't be as huge
The gun hand off’s = NO SNITCHING.
Why people don’t want to see it or speak on it is incredible.
That's bullshit.
The guns are handled with care and the dead bodies are dragged.
Thank you for explaining this song
It's funny how no one mentions the black on black violence shown in the video...yet everyone comments that the video is about racism.
Feels so good to watch something that isn't garbage.
"I just wanted to make a good song. To be played on the 4th of July " 😂😂
The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions.
Just read the lyrics with out the music and it's true poetry. Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit", made people uncomfortable too and had bold explicit lyrics but that's what art does. It provokes, opens your mind and starts an interpretation. Why hide the truth?
I think that the first act, the killing of the black guitar player, is a direct response to black on black violence.
Sooooooo, he wants us to listen to this on 4th of July
i think that clip was for redbone
Blueheartdx no it was for this is America. It was recently at met gala
oh ok.
The 4th of July usually is celebrated by uber-patriotism which generally revolve around a sanitized/white-washed version of who we are as a nation. I think that Glover is being a bit satirical in his statement, perhaps wanting the audience to not get caught up in the fictionalized version of the US. This is America.
I took it as sarcasm.
when gambino said "yeah yeah imma got get the bag" i really felt that
Personally, I thought the video was about gun violence, and racism in America like everyone else. But then I read a comment on the Insider's video that interprets Gambino as the current "black culture" in America. I won't go too far into detail, but in a nutshell. The man in the chair, and the choir symbolize past black culture. They're killed off, and we're left with Gambino who represents today's black culture as I've said before.
Exactly what I thought.
Seize the means of production
"You're just a barcode" :-/ this song has made me cry but also inspired me in so many ways.
The pose he did when he shot the guy is jim crow
thanks for taking the time to make this video and not attempting to riding the hype wave with basic info
The thumbnail was made in a hurry
ikr they literally were too lazy to erase smh
LMFAO
Song and record of the year at the Grammys... W0W
Why does everyone think this is so deep? And why can't everyone easily see what it's conveying? I don't understand why people don't understand this song and why they think it's *deep*.
Reed Ferguson Honest opinion: the song isn’t even like good. Like, Logic and Eminem have conveyed similar messages while dropping bars. I really don’t get what’s so special about this. The music video might have symbolisms, but why do I have to watch the music video for the song to make sense to me?
@@trystanfresh “Kendrick” ? Lol.
Nobody was talking about “racism against the black” (a phrase which sounds racist. Wtf is “the black?” Just say “black people.”)
You’re being disingenuous and misrepresenting what I said. You’re trying to say that symbolism is an essential component of music. I’m just saying that other rappers have addressed similar issues while also displaying better skill in wordplay, rhyming, and flow. You could disagree on that point as that’s completely subjective. Just don’t bring up other issues because I really wasn’t talking about any of that.
Atop the car, when he does that whipping motion and says, "Get back"...
Not here to preach, not here to demonstrate.
But we have got to stop killing our own... please.
The final scene, for me, brought back images from older movies of escaped slaves being hunted by slave catchers. I’ve watched a few reactions, though, and so far no one else seems to have picked up on it. So maybe I’m just imagining it.
underpants, underpants, underpants
lol, i hear that too
I was waiting for this
Play on 4th of july lmaooooooo he’s awsome
Thanks for explaining the video
Don’t you think Childish Gambino should have explained this himself? 😐
I think he did everything in a way that could have many interpretations. If there was one set meaning to his lyrics, people wouldn't try to figure out how it personally made them feel, it gives them the opportunity to fill in every possible meaning the topics he's broadcasting can have.
Elf bitch what the fuck that gotta do with my comment ?Move along .I do not want to hear it
i agree
the jim crow reference spook me tho
IS THIS YOUR AMERICA
Thanks for breaking down, i never would have known what he meant when he said "this is america" 100 times in a row
Gambino one of the greatest ever NO CAP
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“gamBInos’ opening up beat bars-“ I’ve never heard more emphasis on his name
Did they miss the “They gonna find you like Baka” (Drake’s shoota)
Jp Dolocanog he said blocka not Baka they made a mistake
Bing - fish “they gonna find you like blocka?” Who tf is blocka lol
Jp Dolocanog blocka is meant to be the sound of the gun which is followed by him saying blaow, why would Childish Gambino even reference Drake’s shooter lmao
Remember when “freaks and geeks” dropped, and we all asked when mr Glover got flow?
It’s been a minute.
GAMBINO🐐
Finally available in my country. India needs Genius
i'm making donald glover into a meme brb
einstin! ...
mk ultra meme
einstin! How's it go
einstin! Damn y’all are stupid. It’s a nod to Notorious B.I.G because he used to go Baka Baka to make gun sounds.
You're too late
If u listen to the song at the beginning with headphones ur left ear hears "we just want to party" and ur right ear hears "we just want the money" it's crazy
Where'd his neck go
Genius you are indeed genius you break down lyrics like no other
He just wanted to make a good song to be played on the 4th of July. Why overthink it. Just enjoy the song.
whooosh goes the the point of that very tongue-in-cheek quote of his straight past you ;]
Omg I really didn’t understand the lyrics but now I do.. it makes so much sense now.. Wow this somehow has a big impact on me..
not much to explain
*FINALLY !!!!* Somebody heard me out ! A lyrical breakdown instead of A *Part 1/2/3/4/83 VIDEO* breakdown ....
Huh, I thought he was speaking to the black community which does the huge majority of crime and killings of the blacks.
Celebrating the lifestyle, going all I am fitty I am pretty, I am on gucci,... while killing other blakcs
the video does not seem like its really targeted against some white being racists
Its the protagonist of the video who points you to Celly aafter he just show someone, misdirect fffrom himself.
The ffact that you gave the video 3 something minutes feels kinda strange, like its not worth your time to go deeper, like when will be the next song this deep in possibilities and exposure and it gats kinda waved
I've been in Gambino's story world since Sick Boi