A look at various Indie bands and how they have been influenced over the years.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Donald Glover AKA Childish Gambino
Donald Glover is an actor on the mediocre and ever faltering show, Community, but has also used his stardom to somehow forge a rap career these days. He gets a lot of slack from a lot of different people on the internet, but I haven't heard enough of his music to give him much shit. Carles from Hipster Runnoff has written about how bad his music is, as well as how he thinks that Donald is biting Tyler the Creator's style in his new music video. While Childish Gambino may be dressed a bit like Tyler in his video, with the long socks n tiny whiteboy shorts, just look at his picture to the left! This kid seems like the whitest black kid I eva seen with all that nerd apparel! Anyways when I watched his video I noted the the music is pretty unoriginal sounding to me and it's pretty easy to tell who he looked to for making his beats. His beat follows a pattern similar to almost any Lil Wayne song, but in particular A Milli and 6 Foot 7 Foot. (By the way, do you know what song is sampled in 6 Foot 7 Foot? I know everyone recognizes it. The pattern that Childish Gambino's beat follows is a 16 measure snare beat with the beat dropping immediately after that. A lot of Lil Wayne's songs do this exact same thing, although A Milli uses only an 8 measure beat. After figuring out the very Lil Wayne-esque beat, it seems as though Childish Gambino listened to Power by Kanye West and sampled his choir and sirens in the background. Listening to the song, I just plain turned it off early because I've already heard it before Weezy. Below you can compare the sounds of the songs I referenced in order, and see if you hear the similarities.
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