First, he's paying his respects in a way he never has before, which is just interesting on principle. Jumping on other people's big beats can feel played-out at this point, but Gambino's got an approach that gets you tuned in. Part one is night, part two is day, and it's all Donald.) As a whole, STN MTN/Kauai mirrors Beyoncé's I Am… Sasha Fierce in its two-sides-of-the-same-coin approach. (He saved most of his considerable pop gifts for Kauai, which plays like "3005" and "The Worst Guys" had seven babies and then Donald taught them Michael Jackson impressions. So he called up DJ Drama, an instrumental legacy builder for kings like Lil Wayne and T.I., and rapped his ass off for 11 tracks. Donald grew up in the small Atlanta suburb his mixtape's named for, but something about "Childish Gambino Claims Atlanta" raises eyebrows, and nobody knows it better than Donald. Haters are forever, though, and Donald still feels like he can only dream about Childish Gambino becoming super hot in Atlanta, not to mention in New York or Chicago or L.A., where he tends to stay. R O Y A L T Y, a star-studded mixtape from 2012, was Bino saying, "I'm done making shit you can skip." His second label album, December's Because the Internet, was an even louder statement: "I'm here, and I'm doing this till it's done." Donald spent a few years finding his footing, perfecting his new hustle, shedding the "'Bro Rape' dude tries to rap" image. In a lot of (big) circles, Gambino stays overlooked, elbowed out of the hip-hop conversation since he put his first songs online in 2008.
In the dream, Childish Gambino is so big that the roller rink plays him on Fridays, and he's also powerful enough to order strip clubs to shut down on Mother's Day and Chick-fil-A to stay open on Sundays, and he can fire "all the cops in Cobb County." "I had a dream I ran Atlanta, and I was on every radio station," Donald says. It's the first thing he says on STN MTN, a new mixtape that flows into a wavy iTunes EP called Kauai. Martin had a dream, Kendrick had a dream, Donald has a dream.
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