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| Released | July 4, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2012 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 59:19 | |||
| Label | Glassnote | |||
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Glover performing as Childish Gambino at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City in 2010 His first extended play, titled EP, was released as a free digital download in March 2011. 40 A music video for the song 'Freaks and Geeks' was released in that month and Glover hosted the mtvU Woodie Awards, held live at South By Southwest. Gambino also reaches just outside Georgia to rap on a track by an up-and-coming Little Rock, Ark., MC named Kari Faux, and he closes the mixtape with Lil Wayne's decade-old Tha Carter single 'Go DJ.' Once upon a time, a Wu-Tang Clan name-generator gave Donald Glover the rap name Childish Gambino, leading to his first mixtape, Sick Boi, as a 25-year-old who'd already written for 30 Rock and co. Gambino's first mixtape!! Twitter - @ZRiddles Youtube - @maddspeed28.
Royalty (stylized as R O Y A L T Y) is the sixth mixtape by American rapper and actor Donald Glover, under the stage name Childish Gambino. It was released by Glassnote Records on July 4, 2012. The album has many featured artists and is produced by Glover and his co-producer Ludwig Goransson, as well as Beck, Boi-1da and Skywlkr.
Background[edit]
Although released on July 4, 2012, Glover announced the mixtape in January.[1] After the announcement, there were various releases by Glover, including 'Fuck Your Blog,' that were not on the mixtape. Two other songs released since Royalty's announcement that are not included are 'Eat Your Vegetables', released on April 2 through his website,[2] and 'Tell Me' featuring Himanshu Suri, better known as Heems of Das Racist, on the radio show 'Chillin' Island'. 'Tell Me' was later released on Suri's mixtape Wild Water Kingdom.
Glover has stated that he had recorded 25 songs for the mixtape. On May 14, Funkmaster Flex premiered 'Unnecessary', featuring Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul. On May 16, Glover released 'We Ain't Them', produced by himself and frequent collaborator Ludwig. On May 26, Glover released another track, 'Black Faces', through his website, featuring Nipsey Hussle and produced by Boi-1da. On May 30, he released a third track through his website which he named 'Silk Pillow' (via his Twitter account), featuring Beck and produced by both Glover and Beck.
On July 3, 2012, Glover released the cover of the mixtape via Instagram and his Twitter account.[3] The same day he released the track list via Twitter[4]
Critical reception[edit]
Consequence of Sound's Chris Coplan gave the mixtape three out of five stars and found it 'light on the punch lines, heavy on the swag, and an overall mighty declaration of newfound skill and confidence despite a few missteps' such as 'lazy sing-talking'.[5] Corban Goble of Stereogum complimented the guest rappers and observed 'a surprising amount of quality and variety for a free mixtape.'[6] Giving it a score of 8.3 out of 10, Adam Vitcavage of Paste praised Gambino's wordplay and cited the mixtape as 'easily his most ambitious and controversial [release] yet.'[7] Although he felt it lacks the 'sincerity and unique nature of Camp', Jason Gardner of AbsolutePunk rated the mixtape a 78% and wrote that 'the rough and tumble beats and much less punchline-glazed lyricism make this mixtape a worthwhile experience both for creator and listener.'[8]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'Royalty' | 0:09 | ||
| 2. | 'We Ain't Them' |
| 3:13 | |
| 3. | 'One Up' (featuring Steve G. Lover III) | Childish Gambino | 2:31 | |
| 4. | 'Black Faces' (featuring Nipsey Hussle) |
| 3:29 | |
| 5. | 'Unnecessary' (featuring Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul) |
| Childish Gambino | 3:41 |
| 6. | 'Shoulda Known' | Glover | Childish Gambino | 4:27 |
| 7. | 'R.I.P' (featuring Bun B) |
| 3:54 | |
| 8. | 'American Royalty' (featuring RZA and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) | Childish Gambino | 3:34 | |
| 9. | 'It May Be Glamour Life' (featuring Ghostface Killah) |
| Myke Murda | 1:36 |
| 10. | 'Toxic' (featuring Danny Brown) |
| 2:48 | |
| 11. | 'Silk Pillow' (featuring Beck) |
| 4:10 | |
| 12. | 'They Don't Like Me' (featuring Chance the Rapper) |
| Skywlkr | 2:14 |
| 13. | 'Arrangement' (featuring Gonage) | Childish Gambino | 4:34 | |
| 14. | 'Won't Stop' (featuring Danielle Haim) |
| 3:07 | |
| 15. | 'Bronchitis' |
| Beck | 3:02 |
| 16. | 'Wonderful' (featuring Josh Osho) |
| 2:34 | |
| 17. | 'Make It Go Right' (featuring Kilo Kish) | Childish Gambino | 4:24 | |
| 18. | 'Real Estate' (featuring Alley Boy, Swank and Tina Fey) |
| Childish Gambino | 5:52 |
Notes
- ^[b] signifies a co-producer
References[edit]
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- ^'Mixtape Coming Soon'. iamdonald.com. 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
- ^'Eat Your Vegetables'. iamdonald.com. 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
- ^'Royalty Cover'. Twitter. 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
- ^'Royalty Track Listing'. Twitter. 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
- ^Coplan, Chris (July 11, 2012). 'Album Review: Childish Gambino – Royalty Mixtape'. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^Goble, Corban (July 11, 2012). 'Mixtape Of The Week: Childish Gambino Royalty'. Stereogum. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^Vitcavage, Adam (July 10, 2012). 'Childish Gambino: Royalty'. Paste. Decatur. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^Gardner, Jason (July 10, 2012). 'Childish Gambino - Royalty'. AbsolutePunk. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
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About Childish Gambino
Whether doing standup, acting on TV and in movies, or performing his off-kilter hip-hop and funk under the name Childish Gambino, it's impossible not to be impressed by Donald Glover's talents.He got his start performing with the sketch group Derrick Comedy, which led to him being hired by Tina Fey in 2006 to write for 30 Rock. Three years later he left that job to move to Los Angeles and was soon cast on the sitcom Community. He had released his first mixtape, Sick Boi, the previous year, using a name, Childish Gambino, he'd been given by an on-line Wu-Tang Clan name generator. His next mixtape, Poindexter, was released on September 19, 2009, the same day Community premiered on NBC. While his brainy, sometimes goofy rapping style was established by these two mixtapes, his next efforts sought to expand his reach and touch on more serious subjects. I AM JUST A RAPPER and I AM JUST A RAPPER 2 were released in quick succession at the beginning of 2010; then a couple months later he released Culdesac, a mixtape that showed off his soulful singing style. All the while he was still starring on Community, launching a successful standup comedy career, and making electronic music under the name mcDJ. To this point all his music had been self-released, but that changed when he was signed to Glassnote Records in 2011. His first official album, Camp, was issued that same year. Busy as ever, Glover launched a tour that lasted into 2012, then released another mixtape, Royalty, denoting his new status as a more serious rapper and featuring a range of musicians including Beck, ScHoolboy Q, and Das Racist's Heems.Along with guesting on tracks by Kilo Kish, Chance the Rapper, Young Dro, and Kenna, his next move was to reduce his commitment to Community in order to focus more on his music and other projects, most notably a production deal with the TBS network. He left the show for good in 2013, and that same year released his second album, Because the Internet. The record featured appearances by Chance the Rapper, Jhené Aiko, and Azealia Banks, and scored Childish Gambino a Top Ten debut chart placement, a gold record, and a nomination for Best Rap Album at the 2015 Grammy Awards. Glover kept up the same determined pace he always had, and in 2015 released a new mixtape, STN MTN, and EP, Kauai, both of which showed him expanding his sound, with the latter featuring more singing than before. His next big project was creating and starring in Atlanta, a well-received comedic drama set in the titular city. It debuted in September of 2016 and was an instant commercial success. Around this same time, Glover began dropping hints about a new album, played a festival in California where he played many new songs, and in November debuted the first single, 'Me and Your Mama.' It was a new sound cooked up by Glover and longtime producer Ludwig Göransson, based on deeply weird late-'60s and early-'70s psychedelic funk and soul like Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic. 'Awaken, My Love!', which came out in December of 2016, featured Glover forgoing his trademark rap style completely and instead stretching his vocal range in a variety of styles.
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