This Is America

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Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video) - YouTube

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away

We just wanna party
Party just for you
We just want the money
Money just for you
I know you wanna party
Party just for me
Girl, you got me dancin' (yeah, girl, you got me dancin')
Dance and shake the frame
We just wanna party (yeah)
Party just for you (yeah)
We just want the money (yeah)
Money just for you (you)
I know you wanna party (yeah)
Party just for me (yeah)
Girl, you got me dancin' (yeah, girl, you got me dancin')
Dance and shake the frame (you)

This is America
Don't catch you slippin' up
Don't catch you slippin' up
Look what I'm whippin' up
This is America (woo)
Don't catch you slippin' up
Don't catch you slippin' up
Look what I'm whippin' up

This is America (skrrt, skrrt, woo)
Don't catch you slippin' up (ayy)
Look at how I'm livin' now
Police be trippin' now (woo)
Yeah, this is America (woo, ayy)
Guns in my area (word, my area)
I got the strap (ayy, ayy)
I gotta carry 'em
Yeah, yeah, I'ma go into this (ugh)
Yeah, yeah, this is guerilla (woo)
Yeah, yeah, I'ma go get the bag
Yeah, yeah, or I'ma get the pad
Yeah, yeah, I'm so cold like yeah (yeah)
I'm so dope like yeah (woo)
We gon' blow like yeah (straight up, uh)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody
You go tell somebody
Grandma told me
Get your money, black man (get your money)
Get your money, black man (get your money)
Get your money, black man (get your, black man)
Get your money, black man (get your, black man)
Black man

This is America (woo, ayy)
Don't catch you slippin' up (woo, woo, don't catch you slippin', now)
Don't catch you slippin' up (ayy, woah)
Look what I'm whippin' up (Slime!)
This is America (yeah, yeah)
Don't catch you slippin' up (woah, ayy)
Don't catch you slippin' up (ayy, woo)
Look what I'm whippin' up (ayy)

Look how I'm geekin' out (hey)
I'm so fitted (I'm so fitted, woo)
I'm on Gucci (I'm on Gucci)
I'm so pretty (yeah, yeah)
I'm gon' get it (ayy, I'm gon' get it)
Watch me move (blaow)
This a celly (ha)
That's a tool (yeah)
On my Kodak (woo, Black)
Ooh, know that (yeah, know that, hold on)
Get it (get it, get it)
Ooh, work it (21)
Hunnid bands, hunnid bands, hunnid bands (hunnid bands)
Contraband, contraband, contraband (contraband)
I got the plug on Oaxaca (woah)
They gonna find you like blocka (blaow)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody
America, I just checked my following list and
You go tell somebody
You motha****as owe me
Grandma told me
Get your money, black man (black man)
Get your money, black man (black man)
Get your money, black man (black man)
Get your money, black man (black man)
Black man (one, two, three, get down)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody
You go tell somebody
Grandma told me, "Get your money," black man
Get your money, black man (black man)
Get your money, black man (black man)
Get your money, black man (black man)
Black man

You just a black man in this world
You just a barcode, ayy
You just a black man in this world
Drivin' expensive foreigns, ayy
You just a big dawg, yeah
I kenneled him in the backyard
No proper life to a dog
For a big dog
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Meh... I didn't care for the video or the message.

What was the message?
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Was trying to show the killing and violence as the true America. The singing, dancing, etc was just what we want the world to see.

The video shoot way brilliantly done though. I'll give him that.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Too artsy-fartsy. I was being facetious by asking what was the message. I guess the thing is that it was just a bunch of stuff thrown on the wall for a 3-4 minute video for shock value.
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Indeed. Like most songs the music makes it. The lyrics are meh. People have tried to dissect the video and have come up with hundreds of meanings in many videos. Donald Glover even refused to comment on “Meaning”.

The whole thing - meh. I add that I do like the song though.

There, I’ve caved to Volbraniac.
 
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#19
#19
Having been chastened in another thread for using too many words, I'll just say that from an ethnomusicological standpoint it is well crafted, and it is very enjoyable if you know what to listen for.

The staging and dance are also very well done and meant to cause visceral reactions in the viewer.
 
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AshG said:
Having been chastened in another thread for using too many words, I'll just say that from an ethnomusicological standpoint it is well crafted, and it is very enjoyable if you know what to listen for.

The staging and dance are also very well done and meant to cause visceral reactions in the viewer.
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So deep.

This is earth changing.

Future paleontologists will look back on this.
 
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#21
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AshG said:
Having been chastened in another thread for using too many words, I'll just say that from an ethnomusicological standpoint it is well crafted, and it is very enjoyable if you know what to listen for.

The staging and dance are also very well done and meant to cause visceral reactions in the viewer.
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It was an ink blot test in a video format.
 
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#23
#23
Pee Wee did it better....

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I don't always listen to politically charged music but when I do, I prefer RATM.
 
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