During his appearance on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, Stone Mountain, Georgia rapper Childish Gambino commented on a variety of topics including police brutality, white privilege, his show with FX, and his upcoming mixtape, STN MTN / KAUAI.
Gambino kicked off his interview by speaking on comments he made at a show in Sydney, Australia about being better than Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and ScHoolboy Q. He stood behind his comments and revealed that every rapper should feel that way about themselves.
In regards to the artists he called out, he says that those at Top Dawg Entertainment were likely cool with his statement while “Drake is probably not taking it great.”
“Every rapper should feel that way,” Childish Gambino said. “Cause I feel that way. That’s my truth. I said those rappers in particular cause I feel like they’re the best. I feel like they’re the best. Kendrick, Drake, ScHooboy, I listen to them all the time. I think they’re just really good. I really do think they’re the best…I’m sure they’re fine with [that]. That’s the thing. Kendrick is fine with it. Drake is probably not taking it great. I know the TDE guys, like they’d understand. They’re one of the realest dudes in Hip Hop. They understand. They’re like ‘Yeah, you should feel that way’. We’re in competition. I remember when because the internet was coming out, School hit me, he was like ‘This stuff is crazy’ or whatever. And I was telling him the same thing. Cause when it’s good I’m like ‘Man, I wish I had done that.’ It’s competition…And I really do feel I’m the best. I’m having a moment like I can’t be stopped. I know what I’m doing right now. I’ve had ten years learning stuff. And I feel like right now I’m like ‘Oh man, I’m really getting it.’ So, I just feel that way. I really do. I’ll stand by it. I’ll rap anybody.”
The Southern wordsmith later declared that white artists in Hip Hop including Iggy Azalea and G-Eazy are “eating” right now while young blacks in the United States are viewed as “worthless” and have to instead prove their worth.
“I feel like if Hip Hop is supposed to help us and right now that blueprint is taken,” he said. “Iggy’s winning. G-Eazy’s winning. We gotta do something different. But they’re all eating now. You’re right. I agree. And I’m not being like ‘Oh, white rappers that’s the problem.’ Nah, I’m down with it. Because rap is pop now. That’s what it is. It should be. And popular music. And white people are popular. They are. They are popular. So, it’s like they’re more than us. I feel like our job as young blacks in this country is to show our worth. Cause right now they view us as worthless…We don’t quantify our worth.”
Gambino was later asked about a poem he posted on Twitter, during his interview with The Breakfast Club. At the start of the poem, which was released last month, the rapper declared “I wanna be a white rapper.”
In regards to his poem, Gambino was asked why being white is the bar for greatness.
“Because whiteness is blankness,” the rapper said. “It’s because they look at it as a blank slate. Like when you come in, you can be anything. When I walk in even if I have a bowtie, they might be like ‘Is he Muslim?’ They’re not going to do that with a white dude. White people are a blank slate. We are not. People bring stuff to it because there’s not a lot of us, so they only judge us on the seven or whatever they know. So, that’s what I’m trying to say. I want to be a blank slate. As a black person, I constantly have to know what a person is assuming about me. That’s what I’m saying.”
Lastly, Gambino offered an update on his upcoming mixtape and the television show he’s writing for FX Networks. He shared that he’s still working on the show and revealed that proceeds for his new mixtape, STN MTN / KAUAI will go towards changing policies for police and helping Kauai, Hawaii.
“I’m still making it. Still doing it. We’re figuring that out,” Childish Gambino said when asked about his show on FX. “That’s what I really want people to know is like I’m entering—I feel like I’m entering a point where it’s like ‘I understand what I’m doing.’ I’m making a book and a show. And the mixtape is almost done…Jaden’s on there. The money that goes from them goes to money—Half of it goes to changing the policies for cops to wear videos and audio and the other half goes to help Kauai. So, it’s like a good project.”
Although the cover art for STN MTN / KAUAI has been revealed, an official release date for the mixtape has yet to be announced.
Childish Gambino’s interview with The Breakfast Club can be found below (via HotNewHipHop).
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son is wide awake
No he’s still sleepin like your pseudo 5% ass
This dudes a fuckboy ” white rappers be eating, young blacks are worthless” gtfo out of here I hate Iggy and don’t really like g easy but I can see how they are selling music, young blacks that are good are selling too, drake, Wayne, Jay z, Kanye, Kendrick. Are bobby such urea, rich homie, young thug, Rick Ross selling much? NO because they fucking suck Gambino, music is either good or bad, just like if your an asshole your an asshole, not white or black, nice try playing the race card, getting old
instead of listening to a dude who’s actually in the game going thru it you dropping that sorry ass fan knowledge like you know better and it’s making you look like the fcukboy here
First anonymous is speaking truth
how is he speaking truth when wayne, jay, kanye, ross ain’t young black males
What he means is white artists can just come in and steal peoples style and culture and see more profit. ITs a fact. He’s not bitter he’s speaking the truth. Iggy gets plaid on Pop radio
“urban radio” and other stations. When you’re black you’re labeled as “urban” Macklamore gets pop spins and rap radio or “urban” spins. IT’s a fact Anonymous: He’s telling the truth.
That’s not true. It depends on the style of hip-hop. You think Action Bronson would be played on a pop station? Hell na. Whether you’re black, white, or any other shade, you have to make music that a certain group or audience will enjoy. I’m not saying Iggy is good, but she made a catchy song and garnered the attention. The song connected with ratchets and gays, which is a big group that pays. And by white, does one refer to a white caucasian born in the U.S, or any european or middle eastern man/woman whose skin is not black or dark brown? Because they have it just as hard as other racially targeted groups. Just my two cents. One love.
Fuck this racist. Ya chosen last name is Gambino which is a white Italian American crime family what a hypocrite
how is he racist when he’s talking about a system that’s discriminating against him
ignorance is blatant here on hhdx
no system is discriminating against him. he makes wack songs with shit-tier kanye-style beats and talks about liking asian girls and nobody takes him seriously cause of his goofy clothes. he’s playing the race card to explain why nobody gives a shit about his boring ass mixtapes
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Faggish fagbino. This fag is garbage. No one cares what this fuckin wackster has to say
thank you. you have saved me the energy I was gonna expend expressing those exact sentiments.
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can’t believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do,,,
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That’s not true. It depends on the style of hip-hop. You think Action Bronson would be played on a pop station? Hell na. Whether you’re black, white, or any other shade, you have to make music that a certain group or audience will enjoy. I’m not saying Iggy is good, but she made a catchy song and garnered the attention. The song connected with ratchets and gays, which is a big group that pays. And by white, does one refer to a white caucasian born in the U.S, or any european or middle eastern man/woman whose skin is not black or dark brown? Because they have it just as hard as other racially targeted groups. Just my two cents.
“Whether you’re black, white, or any other shade, you have to make music that a certain group or audience will enjoy. I’m not saying Iggy is good, but she made a catchy song and garnered the attention”
^ go learn about suggestive marketing, that wasn’t popular demand to keep playing iggy’s song, HHDX HAD THE ARTICLE THAT TOLD Y’ALL CLEAR CHANNEL HAS A PROGRAM FOR THAT
There’s urban(RAP/HIPHOP/R&B aka BLACK) music, country, pop, etc. IGGY WAS THE CHOICE FOR URBAN MUSIC, not Quan, Rapsody, Bronson, Audio Push, iAmsu, Vic Mensa, those OTHER rappers you wonder why they ain’t up there. Your comment is speculative nonsense.
You have no idea what’s going on and how they’re manipulating media right in Y’ALL FACES and you say nothing about it.
DEAR GAMBINO,
IS RIFF RAFF EATING?
everything this weirdo said is true
so they’re saying that blacks need to be inferior. hmm… so it’s ok for blacks to stand up and say THEY are superior, but god forbid a white man ever said he is superior. Is that EQUALITY? No. Equality would mean every race and/or ethnicity is treated the exact same – no one is superior, no one is inferior. Their entire conversation on race is completely tainted.
To even have to explain self confidence to you is an L for me.
and I meant that typo too that’s how much of an L I took
Music get wack on the radio. About that base is mad wack and promotes racism in its video.
When did he ever call out Drake or Kendrick? LMAO y’all acting like this nigga is all over the media, shit I ain’t never heard a word from him
gambino is so awful people don’t even know the diss track he is referring to. he called out other rappers and nobody even gave a shit.
drake is leagues above these hasbins. 1 album and kendrick is compared to the king who sells out toors sells more albums has more hits broke more records. Drake shits on kendrick with his accomplishments. All kendrick has is a bunch of internet nerd fans while drake has a wide variety of fans. Drake runs this rap game everyone else is irrelevent
you left a little bit of his semen on your lip
you salty nigga
Stop sucking Drake’s dick, also I don’t believe accomplishments should define a career, because all the media wants to hear now is stuff that’s catchy not real rap, that’s why Kendrick has a high internet base and low global ranking, they’d rather (like Gambino said) listen to pop as rap instead of just rap, but Izzy isn’t a rapper she just knows what the media wants, and that’s a fat ass and catchy lyrics, old Nicki used to be a great rapper now she’s just a wannabe sex symbol
youre the only guy on this website that is not a closet fag. its blows my mind that people still don’t understand drakes the greatest to do it
“No he’s still sleepin like your pseudo 5% ass”
^ I’d rather listen to them than your sorry ass at least they’re trying to address what’s going on
but to address your ignorance, my pastor even speaks on the same ills of society. Guess that makes you a heathen in need of some guidance and spiritual cleansing.
“As a black person, I constantly have to know what a person is assuming about me.”
That’s some real succinct stuff right there.
you mean like literally every human being on earth?
Drake folds above Chiild’s gumbo. He’s criticizing them to get some hype tring to sell mills when even 100K was too much
Co-sign 100%.
trying*
Stop blaming white people.
No…
IS this guy for real? Drake doesn’t know you even exist. If he heard your rant, he probably laughed it off. Your not even in the same hemisphere as Drake or TDE. They are leagues above you. Your trying to rob Drake’ s sound anyways but your shit songs make him sound as hard as Rakim. Wack wack lyrics out of this clown. As far as his rambling about white people – black people, he sounds like a complete crackhead. An embarrassment to us black folk really. Reminds me of those bougie middle-class college-educated black kids, so freaking confused about race but he will be first one chasing some white tail, fronting that he’s down with Malcolm X. It’s so obvious he is just saying stuff to get a rise out of people and see what happens. he’s like a confused 13 year old. This is what happens when hiphop leaves New York and becomes embraced by suburban black kids from GA who shop at Macys and wear flip-flops. People think Drake is bad, this guy is so much worse
drake is garbage kid… so are all these new heads. he is right… hip hop is for white people now. this shit is a packaged product now like nsync. dont you see it!? its compromised art for corporate gains… not a true raw reflection of the struggle as it was intended.
there are nothing but white kids at every show…
“drake is garbage kid… so are all these new heads. he is right… hip hop is for white people now.”
Some 14 year old Puerto Rican kid who thinks he’s knowledgeable about hip hop
Long as I can remember…plenty of hiphop shows we’re filled with whites. Nothing new there at all. Even Public Enemy shows were filled with whites back in the day. Iggy and Macklemore are not really respected like Eminem and Beastie Boys – nor even House of Pain – because they are not very skilled lyricists. The songs are pseudo-revolutionary. Macklemore’s self-deprecating humorous shtick ala “poppin tags” has already been done before (see Pharcyde) . As far as hiphop being a “reflection of the struggle” … Not sure I agree that hiphop was ever necessarily intended as such. I’m not sure I feel that is fundamental. De La Soul and say the Beastie Boys are indisputable legends but struggle was not a prevailing theme there . Once again, this kind of “sounding of the alarm” is as old as hiphop itself. There is always this fear that hiphop is getting commercialized. It happened with the rise of gangsta rap, the rise R&B laced hooks ala Biggie Smalls/Puffy, the move to Southern hiphop etc. the list goes on. Now it’s Drake and the rise of white rappers . Personally, I think it comes down to innovation. If the artist isn’t doing something innovative and true to themselves, that’s when hip hop loses its way. Drake looks like he belongs in a boy band but when you look at his music in an unbiased way- he’s actually risky and innovative. I think he’s good for the culture. He’s pushing the boundaries and daring to break the mould of what is traditional ascribed to hiphop. This was what NWA did, Outkast did etc. If hiphop stayed with that New York style, it would have died. I’m not sure I see the innovation with Macklemore and Iggy so I’m not sure they will be really cherished and remembered. Innovative artists are remembered regardless of everyday popularity. childish Gambino is just corny to me. I don’t really feel like that cat really knows and studied hiphop. Like if you through on Black Moon or Mac Dre that he would even know what it is.
^Drake isn’t risky or innovative. He’s not pushing any boundaries and he’s not breaking any mold. He plays it safe all the time, he’s not good for the culture. He’s not doing anything similar to NWA, Outkast, etc. Stop dickriding.
Have Drake & Kendrick Lamar explained how much they couldnt care yet?
one of the dumbest hip hop interview i have ever seen, i now understand the reason behind his stage name ffs. even if i can understand his whole racism point, his arguments are so bad and non sense that just make him look dumb and greedy af
is this a joke? literally every artist that’s blowing up right now is young and black. he was just talking about TDE. the only people who listen to gambino are white. what a fucking idiot.
Yall niggz weak af wtf
How are blacks superior? How can you know what someone is assuming? I didn’t even know who this clown was until he was introduced to me by a friend? He lost a semi fan. Everyone gets judged by their dressing style. Black people are not the reason this country great. Being musical and good at sports is not that important. Band aids are brown idiot. Blacks are unique yet most of them act gangsta. There was a white kid shot in the streets the same week as that black kid. Stop loving the rough image you portray when it’s beneficial and hating it when it’s detrimental.
You completely missed the fucking point of what he said. Like swing and a miss dude. He’s saying that minorities have to work harder than white people, and he’s right. All minorities are still fighting for equality. They just want white people to see them as a man, woman, straight, homosexual, whatever it is that they are without someone looking down on them and holding that race, gender, etc. against them with disdain.
this nigga saying his favorite rappers are Kendrick, Drake, And SCHOOL BOY Q.. speaks volumes of his dickrider-ness/ level of homosexuality. so many other great artist worthy of the BEST title and this nigga picks those three.. the popular artists arent the best any artist knows that
Kendrick might worth it though. The other 2 go 2 hell
Gambino I used to love you.
faggot
Thank me latter
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I’ve been a fan for a long time but my boy is doing himself no favors lately. I like weed as much as the next guy so I can’t believe I’m saying this but Donald, you have been smoking entirely too much reefer.