Dissecting the Response to Childish Gambino's "This Is America" | Damage Control (Ep. 465)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Ringer's Justin Charity and Kate Knibbs discuss Childish Gambino's new song, "This Is America," and its controversial music video (0:29), what the qualifications are for handing out the "black genius" title (11:03), and R. Kelly potentially beginning to face consequences for his actions (19:31). More from The Ringer: When a Culture’s Fed Up Donald Glover’s Next Phase Is Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Justin Cherity.
0:05.8	I'm Kate Nebs.
0:07.0	Welcome to Damage Control on the Channel 33 Network, a podcast where we unpack what upsets,
0:12.2	excites and divides us in popular culture.
0:15.1	Have we finally reached the long delayed end of our Kelly?
0:20.0	Demute our Kelly campaign backed by the Hollywood Times Up movement has launched a series
0:25.1	of protests against the singer and his business partners.
0:28.2	We're going to talk about it.
0:30.2	But first we're going to talk about Donald Glover.
0:33.7	The rapper singer, actor, director, also known as Childish Gambino, who released a controversial
0:39.4	music video for his new song, This is America.
0:58.2	Donald Glover had quite a weekend.
1:00.8	He hosted SNL.
1:02.8	I think he was in every single sketch and performed his own musical guest.
1:08.1	And at the same time, he was performing, he released a music video for his new song, This
1:12.6	America.
1:13.6	It's already racked up like 50 million views on YouTube.
1:18.9	A lot of people are talking about it.
1:20.9	There's many opinions to be had because the music video is deliberately unsettling.
1:27.0	It depicts Glover executing a man with a gunshot to the back of the head.
1:32.1	It also depicts him shooting a chorus of people and it's sort of obviously meant to invoke
1:38.8	the Charleston massacre.
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