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People think he just started rapping out of the blue. However, he’s been rapping for a long time, ever since Lance Armstrong went through chemotherapy to be exact. His last chemotherapy treatment was 1996.

Side note… this is a pretty fucking slick line.

Lance During Chemo Treatment

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His first EP dropped after graduating college was an ultimatum: “Pay attention to my impact or be destroyed by the trend I’m setting.”

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A reference that started in the previous line with “Word is Born/Bourne” is concluded with “That was an Ultimatum”. It is a reference to the fantastic conclusion to the Bourne trilogy.

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James Dean was one swagged out motherfucker. Probably the original definition of “cool” and the basis for the character Arthur Fonzarelli (Fonzie) on Happy Days.

Greaser) was a working class youth subculture that originated in the 1950s among young northeastern and southern United States street gangs. Their name came from their greased back hair, which involved combing back hair with wax, gel, creams, tonics or pomade. They would usually roll their sleeves up to hold their cigarettes.

James Dean = SWAG

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A wonderfully expensive camera, Gambino’s seemingly explosive success has turned the table on these pretty ladies. They wouldn’t talk to him a year ago and now they are willfully making this pose as he takes pics:

The 5D is basically every photographer’s digital SLR camera of choice for taking photos of beautiful girls unless you want to make REALLY big prints–for that you have to rent a Hasselblad digital back for about $1K/day.

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Donald, stressed and desperate for help, wants to call his father to vent and ask for advice, but he knows that his father has his own problems to deal with. It’s also worth noting that Donald is a famous celebrity living an upper-class life while his father works a regular job, so Donald complaining about his life could seem a bit tedious. Therefore, Donald just sends him money to help fix his father’s problems instead.

In “Be Alone”, Donald raps:

I wanna pick up the phone, ask my dad how to handle it
But what will happen when my dad’s not there to answer it?

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On the outro song of the five-track EP, Gambino closes the project with a climactic build-up where he expresses his perseverance through all adversity. He even touches on overcoming the subtle racism he faced as a kid.

Despite the many critics he faced though, Bino kept his resilience and succeeded in his own way—and he makes sure you know it.

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In this track, Childish Gambino recalls one of his late night journeys with a girl he just met. While “lights turned on” refers to the lights, quite literally, being on during sex, the phrase “lights on” also refers to an extremely sexy girl.

This song samples “Spinning You”, a song released on Childish Gambino’s 2006 beat tape Utterances of the Heart, released under the moniker “mc DJ”.

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This is the third track on Gambino’s EP.

Gambino uses the track to deliver bars about his haters/swag/dopeness and his reason for rapping.

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“Be Alone” is the first song off Childish Gambino’s EP.

Gambino uses this song to express the loneliness and isolation his fame has brought upon his life.

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Louboutin shoes have a signature red bottom. Coincidentally, there will be so much blood (Red) leaking from various bodies that it will look like a Louboutin floor.

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