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Album review: Camp

February 3rd, 2012

Donald Glover needs some soap to wash out his mouth. No surprises in that at all, he is a rapper after all. But his rap is not exactly ghetto-hood rap. His hardworking parents made sure that he went to a good school and moved away from the hood. On Camp, his lyrics are about being labelled not black enough, being the so-called Oreo guy (black on the outside, white on the inside),going to a white school where the white kids marveled about his course hair,having appeal for both black and whites girls. Experiencing foster child hardships and being discriminated agianst because of colour. His rap is black just, not hood, on the album he says it’s ‘black and white music’. He still raps about d*** and girls- as he puts it. This fourth album of the rapping actor,co-written and co-produced by Ludwig Göransson, is really dope, versatile, upbeat and fun. You’ll have a great time with it and the floor scorchers on it like Heartbeat, Fire Fly, L.E.S and Bon Fire (which sounds like Lil Wayne’s A Milli). He spits real, sexy and raw. Not every artist has to sing or rap about wars and gloabl warming all the time, sometimes we need to let down our hair down. 4/5

This isn’t a story about how girls are evil or how love is bad, this is a
Story about how I learned something and I’m not saying this thing is true
Or not, I’m just saying it’s what I learned. I told you something. It was
Just for you and you told everybody. So I learned cut out the middle man,
Make it all for everybody, always. Everybody can’t turn around and tell
Everybody, everybody already knows, I told them. But this means there isn’t
A place in my life for you or someone like you. Is it sad? Sure. But it’s a
Sadness I chose. I wish I could say this was a story about how I got on the
Bus a boy and got off a man more cynical, hardened, and mature and shit.
But that’s not true. The truth is I got on the bus a boy. And I never got
Off the bus. I still haven’t
” – Extracted from That Power

Camp tracklist
1. Outside
2. Fire Fly
3. Bonfire
4. All the Shine
5. Letter Home
6. Heartbeat
7. Backpackers
8. L.E.S
9. Hold You Down
10. Kids
11. You See Me
12. Sunrise
13. That Power


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