Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love! (Discussion Thread)

[Hejdå]

Redbone, Zombie, Me and Your Mama

 

[Grimblock]

Baby Boy is music brehs....

Had on the whole way through. This man came through with all the juice

 

[MikeyC]

I don't see the problem with California

Right. It doesn't sound much like the rest of the album, and the concept has been done to death, but the song itself isn't as bad as most are making it out to be.

 

[Sithlord Piff]

Questlove was freaking out about this album on IG. Said he had to wake D Angelo up at 4am to hear it.
He wasnt lyin

 

[KingBeez]

Been on replay since it leaked

He gotta go on tour with this...

 

[SmileyFace]

I kept on waiting for him to rap

 

[Run Up]

I bought this based on the comments in this thread and played it today....wtf did I listen to? I can't get jiggy with this shyt

 

[blazn101]

'With the gun in your hand I'm the Boogieman..'

'If you point a gun
at my raising sun
thou we're not the one..
but in the bowls of your mind
we have done the crime..'



To the black men killed by cops..

 

[OC's finest]

anyone got that PM?

 

[Niggthaniel Essex]

How do go from "Because The Internet" to this?

Not for me.

 

[DaBackOfTimbosHead]

Sounds like a Funkadelic album, Stand Tall is my shyt. The whole album is fire.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Sitting with it for a minute, I'm really digging this album (minus California).

The most interesting thing about this project is the overall narrative of "The Talk," where he's examining white fear of blackness in an over-the-top horror story he's telling to his son, (along with the birds & bees). It's omnipresent on every track but never over-the-top or preachy and so soaked into the music that I'm sure many listeners won't even connect to the theme. I see it as Glover's version of a musical companion to Between the World and Me.

Honestly I did a brief listen last week and wasn't impressed. but you post made me go back and revisit the album.

I love this shyt.

 

[patscorpio]

Riot and zombies ... this was a dope project and I'm not even a fan of his music

 

[Lootpack]

I wanna hear Bino on more N.E.R.D/Neptunes esque beats like The Palisades. That track was fire, shoutout to Christian Rich.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Zombies is my shyt


He really embedded his messages in these records something serious