BRUH THIS MOON GIRL & DEVIL DINOSAUR SHOW IS FOR THE CULTURE AND I'M ALL OVER THIS!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 THEY DEADASS GOT CHILDISH GAMBINO PLAYING OVER AN ACTION SCENE 🤩🤩
"This Is America" is a song by American rapper Childish Gambino (Donald Glover). Written and produced by Gambino and Ludwig Göransson, with additional writing credits going to American rapper Young Thug. Ludwig Göransson is also the person behind the score of the Mandalorian and the Black Panther movies, as well as Gambino's old sitcom series Community.
The lyrics and accompanying music video, reflecting the core of the Black Lives Matter movement, confront issues of ongoing systemic racism, including prejudice, racial violence, the ghetto, and law enforcement in the United States, as well as the wider issues of mass shootings and gun violence in the United States. Originally, Gambino intended it to be a diss record towards fellow rapper Drake.
"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.
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. Billboard critics ranked it 10th among the "greatest music videos of the 21st century." The video won the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video, as well as previously mentioned the Grammy Award for Best Music Video.
"This Is America" recieved a total of 62,3% yes votes!
Not only was it awesome to see Donald Glover make a live-action cameo in Across the Spider Verse,
I find it absolutely HILARIOUS that Disney/MCU Spider-Man was NOWHERE to be seen in Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse but both Toby Mcguire's and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man were given cameos 😂
Edit: How did I forget that even the cashier from the Venom movies, Mrs. Chen, even got a live action cameo!!
one of my favorite ways to spend the time on this silly little app has to be looking up posts about songs or albums that i am currently obsessed with and see people sharing their love for them. i love it. i love seeing humans care so much about one song, each for multiple different reasons, to the point of writing so beautifully about their fondness for it and post it for strangers to see. it's like, you posted about this song in 2015 and your opinion about it resonates with me in 2024. i love it, please don't you ever stop.
I be listening to childish gambino acting like he talking to Abed 🤫🤫🤫 shhh its code only Abed would understand (when he talks abt girls and pussy its actually abt abed)