Last night, Childish Gambino went on a Kanye-like rant about race, Twitter, and activism.
Childish, who is not new to controversy, started his poem off with a bang, saying, “I wanna be a white rapper.”
Check out what came after that below:
“childish gambino is a white rapper”
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i wanna be a white rapper.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i wanna be so white im the biggest rapper of all time.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i wanna be so white i can have a number one song with cursing and parents are fine with it.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i wanna be so white and so big i get eat dinner with the koch brothers.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i hope I’m so big and white i can go to clippers games and it not be a statement.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i hope I’m so white they let my friend out of jail sooner.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i hope I’m so big and white my cousin wasn’t shot and stabbed twice in the neck twice last month.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i wanna be so big. so white.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i wanna be so big and and so white that white dads feel comfortable sending their daughters,
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
who are home for the summer from Stanford, to my show.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
and after the performance they come hang with me on my bus and we smoke and then we fuck to young dro
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
and she holds my face in her hands and her eyes roll back in her head.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
then she goes home and her dad says “how was the show?” and she says “it was fun. they had lasers.”
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i hope i become so big and and so white that G-Eazy will say “damn, this nigga is white” and everyone will agree and nod.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i want to be so big and white that people are scared. “what if this spreads?
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
what if everyone starts to get big and white? what if this works for everyone and everyone can experience this whiteness and this bigness?”
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i hope i become too big and too white.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
but i am just a black male. i am a nigga.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
twitter activism is wack. marches don’t work anymore. police should be forced to wear recording devices.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
*Drops Mic*
A couple of hours ago, Gambino went back to Twitter to kind of explain where he was going with his poem last night:
i want people to understand i wasn’t under any influence last night.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
after hearing a friend sobbing and after talking with my mom, i wrote that poem.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
I’ve been threatened by police twice this year, hand on holster. “and i’m childish gambino”.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
so when someone calls me a “white rapper”, i wanna make sure they understand i don’t have all the benefits.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
twitter isn’t wack. activism isn’t wack. twitter activism is wack to me. it’s only half of activism.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
this is not an apology.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
“when ur turn comes, please listen” – my mom on the police. i don’t think it’s fair she has to feel that way.
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
i honestly don’t give two fucks if you hate me. none of this was ever about me. and i hope you understand that
— childish gambino (@donaldglover) August 14, 2014
What do you think of Gambino’s latest stunt?
SOURCE: Twitter | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
