Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino Mashup by Gibberish

I'm a big fanboy of Donald Glover in part to his role on what use to be the hilarious sitcom Community and in part to his rap alter ego, Childish Gambino. The guy's a talent and I wrote about a really great interview with him and Rembert Browne in the now defunct Grantland :(  WHICH * TANGENT ALERT *  was so much greater than Bill Simmons newer iteration, The Ringer, a poorer millennial's version with short (it identifies how long it will take to read for all the too-busy-to-do-one-thing-at-once-like-read-an-article-that's-longer-than-three-minutes-while-checking-your-Snaps-every-minute-while-reading people) reads, slightly click-baity titles, and a larger glut of talent now that the likes of Brown, Zach Lowe, Wesley Morris, etc., are gone.

I think I get it, in Grantland they tried to provide amazing content in a ridiculous array of matters in sports and entertainment with long form articles of substance which was subsequently shut down by the powers that be at ESPN for reasons maybe more political than money-driven. Articles around the interwebs alleged that Grantland was not making that much money for ESPN but many more articles detailed the fractious relationship with Simmons and ESPN.

Who knows why it all happened, but Grantland was the best website I'd ever seen and may ever see. I wrote my obit on them a while back in which I had described the site: 

There were too many amazing articles to list, too many talented writers to mention all of them, but the site warped around an orbit of - gasp - journalism. It was journalism, not click bait, not profits, not sex and skinniness, that provided substance in a universe of trolls and tirades...

The site was created to inspire the young. It was created to breed writers and provide a lens into what driven, brilliant, and hard working people can accomplish.

I don't know if I would have started this blog without Grantland's push. I don't know if I would have started writing like a layman without Simmons' journey from stoner to savant. But I know it helped. 

SO LIKE I WAS SAYING, I'm a big Donald Glover/Childish Gambino fan. Glover has a new series on FX Atlanta debuting September 8 which looks to be very interesting and will be even more so considering Glover had complete control and hails from Atlanta himself. 

Which leads me to this very cool mashup with the beats to Gambino's album Because the Internet with lyrics and flows from Kendrick Lamar. Very, very fun listen.