From Spotify, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes. I'm your host Cole Kushna. Today we continue our serialized analysis of Because the Internet by Childish Gambino

with a special episode on one of the most innovative components of Glover's

multimedia world, the secret track.

In our last episode, we examined 3,000.

A song where Gambino and the boy cried out for connection.

In the screenplay, the boy witnessed a wedding that reminded him of his failed relationships,

and he questioned why he was unable to make any lasting meaningful bonds.

At the end of this scene, the script instructs us to play a secret track simply titled number 9.5 coded.

But at the time of BTI's initial release, the track was nowhere to be found.

This left fans mystified. A Secret Track?

Given that there was password-protected content on Gambino's website at this time,

as well as his statements and interviews that asked his fans to learn to code,

fans were convinced that the secret track lay hidden somewhere in the website.

It wasn't until nearly a year later when Gambino released the joint mixtape

slash EP titled Stone Mountain Kauai that fans had everything they needed to uncover the secret

track. Glover tweeted that the last song on this project, 3,05 Beach Picnic version, should help with the secret track.

This song contains an alternate version of 3,05's hook. But strangely large portions of the song are instrumental where the verses would typically go.

Shortly after Glover's tweet, Reddit user Pepsi 112 posted on the Donald Glover

subreddit a file they had uncovered within the code of the online screenplay.

It was an a cappella track, meaning it contained just Glover's

solo vocals.

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