Charlemagne Tha God (co-host of The Breakfast Club) and Gambino got into an argument about race when Bino visited the show to promote STN MTN / Kauai. After the interview, Charlemagne addressed their debate on his podcast The Brilliant Idiots and Gambino wrote about it on his Deep Web Tour blog

But wait, there’s more: The Breakfast Club talked about this lyric specifically after the mixtape’s release

Gambino says Charlemagnes (plural), not just Charlemagne. He’s generalizing people who throw shade at him–he did this before on his Pound Cake freestyle:

A bunch of DDots wanna talk a lot of shit

Charlemagne further elaborated on the disagreement between the two claiming “there are two white people up for the Grammy this year, Iggy Azalea and Childish Gambino” during an interview in which he denounced Gambino’s nomination for the Grammy for Best Rap Album.

Ferg’s father, Darold Ferguson, died of kidney failure.

Here’s Ferg discussing his father in an interview with Complex

I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade. He knew a lot of the people I run into today, like Puffy. He was in a crew called Same Gang that ran Harlem, like A$AP does now. He died of kidney failure, from breathing in all that plastisol paint. I could be like, “How am I ever going to fill my pop’s shoes?” But in my eyes, I’m becoming better than him, accomplishing things he didn’t get a chance to. He would want that.

Elly Jackson told NME (excerpted on Wikipedia that she wrote these lyrics after the 2011 London riots:

“I’m not making any political points here and I always want to stay away from politics, so that song is about the feeling of the riots—the energy in Brixton at the time—and the fact that I had never seen my generation in London stand up for anything before. Whether it was right or not to riot, or whether anything changed, is not for me to say, but I knew afterwards that I wanted to write a song called ‘Uptight Downtown’.