Will The Real Donald Glover Please Stand Up?

It seems like Glover’s automatic response to the (perceived) defect of being a nerd is to brag about how much he gets laid. This tactic seems like a miscalculation. Half the time, Childish Gambino sounds like an un-self-aware parody of Bigger Thomas — or a pale imitation of Kanye West.

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Childish Gambino: Sitcom Tested, Hipster Approved

A big part of the Childish Gambino project is to destabilize traditionally white cultural codes. The semi-joke blog-to-books like the Hipster Handbook and Stuff White People Like are actually condescending in their roping off and classifying as white entire large swaths of culture like wearing sweaters and Ray-Bans, writing in Moleskines, traveling internationally, and even using Nalgene water bottles.

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