All sites are guilty of being 'too nice' to marginal buzzworthy artists, allowing them to have a 'sympathy album cycle' based on their ability to get hits. Donald Glover's rap project 'Childish Gambino' never received ANY coverage from Pitchfork, and we must commend them as a thought leader. Basically, if you are a website that posted 'generic, positive coverage of Childish Gambino as if he was a fresh, relevant artist', then ur site is 'totally effing retarded, voiceless, and a lemming-wave hype factory.' For example, look at NPR's 'writeup' of his album stream [link].

1.6 = 'u should quit ur rap career, bro.' U gotta feel bad for any human/website that ever considered Donald Glover to be a 'real rapper' and for his album to be a 'legitimate rap masterpiece.' Probably just really, really lame white people who are obsessed with NBC comedies.

Today, we celebrate Pitchfork for their greatest pan of the year.

This is the last line of the review. Basically 'says it all'.

It's the perfect summation of Camp: preposterously self-obsessed, but not the least bit self-aware. Tell me that ain't insecure.

Srsly this album is 'effing terrible.' I guess he thought he could be 'sensational' like Tyler the Creator, but it just came across very poorly.

While Glover's exaggerated, cartoonish flow and overblown pop-rap production would be enough to make Camp one of the most uniquely unlikable rap records of this year (and most others), what's worse is how he uses heavy topics like race, masculinity, relationships, street cred, and "real hip-hop" as props to construct a false outsider persona.

He is just some lame bro who was 'influenced' by Kanye West, and just does a crappy impression of him, making tons of references to getting BJs from college girls.

Glover's not doing himself any favors with a rap handle taken from the Wu-Tang Name Generator, but that'd be easy to overlook if Camp functioned as anything more than a series of similar one-note gags. On a song-by-song basis, he scripts a slightly off-brand, fictional version of Kanye West being played for laughs. We could talk about Glover's bloodlines all day, but Childish Gambino's paternity test traces straight back to "All Falls Down". "You See Me" reimagines "Niggas in Paris" as a meme cemetery, with Glover painfully leaning into herniated punchlines like, "She's an overachiever/ All she does is suck seed." (Or maybe "Asian girls everywhere... UCLA!" will eventually end up on a T-shirt.)

This album is a trainwreck on all levels. Totally embarrassing.

Supporters may rush to praise Glover as a "multi-talent" due to Camp's self-production, but his cratedigging begins with The College Dropout and ends with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, all of it Blingee'd up with assistance from "Community" composer Ludwig Goransson. Yes, that's a lot of Yeezy talk, but the most insidious aspect of Camp is how Glover operates from a pre-Kanye inferiority complex where he senses that any dismissal of his music stems from gangsta rap still being the predominant aesthetic version of hip-hop (never mind that the most commercially relevant guy who can be feasibly be called "gangsta rap" right now is Rick Ross, and even he's widely beloved on account of being an acknowledged pathological liar). This much is obvious from the tone-deaf "All of the Shine," and especially "Backpackers", a preemptive strike at his always-male, usually educated haters. Note how its title co-opts the one epithet more outdated than "hipster" in rap music circa 2011.

The 'hashtag rap' line is pretty funny/true.

Glover isn't strictly a comedy rapper, but he flows like a comic actor: When he's trying to be playful, his voice hitches in a pubescent squeak, and when he "goes in," he's still delivering one room-clearing punchline after another with the earnestness of the most confused Rhymesayers guy ever. At the very least, Camp can serve as hashtag rap's tombstone, and I'll just present some choice quotes without comment so you can decide for yourself: "I made the beat and murdered it, Casey Anthony," "You can kiss my ass, Human Centipede," "I got a girl on my arm, dude show respect/ Something crazy and Asian, Virginia Tech."

He gets TONS of BJs, yall! College Touuuurr!

Every attempt Glover makes to present himself as an inside operative confounding stereotypes about mainstream rap rings totally false. In "Fire Fly", he brags about the ease of scoring college gigs and college girls (while rhyming "LSU" with "molest you") and then complains: "No live shows because I can't find sponsors/ For the only black guy at a Sufjan concert." Bullshit.

This is a pretty dark day for Donald Glover's career. At least he still has lamestream markets, but is that what he wants? To have an audience of people who basically just listen to mature Kidz Bop music?

Has p4k 'returned to vintage form' with a panning of the century?
What would u score this pan writeup from 0.0 to 10.0?
Has a double standard been set with Odd Future? Why do they get to rhyme about violence/simple-wave banal crap and still be considered 'legit rappers'?
Is Donald Glover 'right' that ppl dismiss him for unfair reasons, or does he 'suck 2 much' 2 even make it an argument?
Do u think he gets 'mad BJs', 'moderate BJs', or 'no BJs'?
Is this the end of the era of 'fake multitalented humans' like Zooey Deschanel, Michael Cera, and Donny Gloves?
Do u feel bad for any1 who thinks Donald Glover is a 'real rapper'?

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