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7 months ago
7. Freaks and Geeks
11 months ago
1. Accent
1 year ago
Video for "Freaks and Geeks".

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  • jonathan alexander 11 months ago
    Donald you are so awesome and creative. lookin forward to the EP and the tour !
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  • Will H 11 months ago
    this is incredible.
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  • Danny Ray 11 months ago
    Phenomenal
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  • Danny Ray 11 months ago
    Better yet, Phenawesome
  • Teo Barrault 11 months ago
    Awesomenal?
  • Danny Ray 11 months ago
    nah dude
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  • Brendan Rice 11 months ago
    Your sincerity shines through on every track. This video is a real testament to that. Fuck yeah.
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  • Janessa Smith 11 months ago
    I'm really vibing off the energy on this one man. You are so talented and I love your music! Hope to catch you on the tour!
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  • Luke Marvin 11 months ago
    Nice performance.
    Big in the wide shot.
    Subtle in the closeup.
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  • Danny Ray 11 months ago
    just found out that this was shot on your 5D... you sir, are my hero haha for many reasons though
  • DeShon Dixon 11 months ago
    Do You Know What Lens This Was Shot With ?
  • Alex K. Palmer plus 11 months ago
    Canon 24-70 L
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  • Danny Ray 11 months ago
    1shot = Untouchable
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  • Ravi Vora plus 11 months ago
    such a rad song, such a meh video :(
  • Griffin T. Jones 11 months ago
    I agree, but it's his first, so I'll give him a break.
  • Gabrielle 11 months ago
    I don't know what you're talking about man. Considering that this was all shot on one take is pretty dope.
  • Nic Stanich plus 11 months ago
    ive been to a few of his concerts. at first i was like, meh, but the more i watch the more awesome it gets. its simple. and its him. thats all its meant to be, and its dopeness.
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  • Griffin T. Jones 11 months ago
    Phenomenal.
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  • Rocky Nguyen 11 months ago
    Anyone know where he got his hoodie?
  • Evan Bowen-Gaddy 11 months ago
    Looks like an American Apparel sweatshirt.
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  • Mike Favata 11 months ago
    Can't wait for you to come to Boston! Shit is going to be crazy!
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  • nickythegreek 11 months ago
    great vid, great energy!
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  • Adam Gillikin 11 months ago
    Sick one take.
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  • The Color Machine plus 11 months ago
    [picking chin off of floor]. not bad.
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  • K.T.F 11 months ago
    This shit go!
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  • Kurt Burks 11 months ago
    Dope!
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  • Matthew Stubstad 11 months ago
    Always raising the bar! Great performance! And stellar stuff Luddie! :D
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  • Dani Brantley 11 months ago
    damn.
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  • Bernard 11 months ago
    Epic
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  • Ro'Shine 11 months ago
    Bananas!
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  • melody love 11 months ago
    Yesss facetime <3
    haha
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  • Bellographix 11 months ago
    Not sure what everyone's raving about, it's just a dude singing a song????
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  • Christopher Desrosiers 11 months ago
    My gay crush on you just quadrupled. This is fantastic.
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  • Patrick Kosmowski 11 months ago
    crazy
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  • Caleb Siep 11 months ago
    40K views in a day? Dayum dude! Looking forward to the tour.
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  • kristina goatley 11 months ago
    ee cummin HER FACE
    WORD
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  • mike 11 months ago
    That was amazing!
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  • Steve Young 11 months ago
    If it wasn't for illroots.com i wouldn't have even kno u rap i was already a fan of your acting on the community n now im a bigger fan keep up the good work hommie your work excites me
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  • Jeff Stevens 11 months ago
    really good!
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  • Omar Nour 11 months ago
    Is this supposed to be ironic?

    If not, I'm disappointed, man. Expletives used intelligently can actually emphasise a point but this was just crass.

    I expected better, Donald. Your comedy work I'm a big fan of ... this, not so much.
  • Jake Lodwick plus 11 months ago
    It's not *supposed to be* anything, it's just awesome.
  • Omar Nour 11 months ago
    LOL hyperbole, much? The Grand Canyon is 'awesome', sunset on Copacabana is 'awesome', the Northern Lights are 'awesome'.

    The beat is catchy and the single-shot take is praiseworthy but it's let down by crude lyrics. Like I said, that's a disappointment because Donald is clearly an intelligent comedian.

    Falls far short of 'awesome', IMHO.
  • Evan Bowen-Gaddy 11 months ago
    The lyrics may be crude at points, but they are clever nonetheless.

    "ee cumming on her face, now that's poetry in motion."
    "Took the G out of your waffle, all you got left is your ego."
    "An Elephant never forgets, so my dick remembers everything."

    I thought it was great. To each his own.
  • EthanAlexLane plus 11 months ago
    Check out Rap Genius. There's a lot more in his rap than expletives. Evan got it ;)
    rapgenius.com/lyrics/Childish-gambino/Freaks-and-geeks
  • Omar Nour 11 months ago
    Evan, I'm not saying I don't appreciate the references, I'm just saying the guy could do it without the explicit sexual imagery.

    Again, I'm far from a prude but I feel you can go too far sometimes, to the detriment of the song even. It's not like I'll stop listening to him altogether in protest (lol), I just hope for better next time.

    Ethan, thanks for the link. As a Briton, the only ones that were beyond me were the Eggo's Waffles and the Ariel Pink references.
  • SCketch TV 11 months ago
    its rap man...if you want it clean talk to will smith
  • Omar Nour 11 months ago
    *Whoosh*


    That's the sound of my point going over your head.
  • SCketch TV 11 months ago
    No. i get your point, you feel the cursing and "crude" references to sex and genitalia detract from the song...but compared to most of the hip hop out there, this song is relatively tame. See play by david banner. While not a great song, shit some would argue its not even good, it is one of the most graphic out there. Some of the best hip hop songs are as graphic if not more so than Freaks and Geeks, like Xxplosive by Dr. Dre or Shimmy Shimmy Ya by ODB.
    Hip Hop ultimately derives from blues. There were blues songs as far back as the 1930s (and even earlier) called "Pet your poodle" and "Your southern can is mine", all based around sexual double entres. I'd say that if you leave that out of hip hop, you're denying the music its lyrical and societal roots.
    Plus, its just words man, lighten up and get over yourself.
  • Omar Nour 11 months ago
    I appreciate you trying to introduce context but the existence of other, more explicit songs doesn't, IMO, justify an artist of Don's calibre and intelligence resorting to such low tones. Maybe I'm wrong but I think he's better than that.

    FWIW I believe hip hop's roots lie in articulating the state of what was often seen as societal urban anathema by politicans (drugs/crime/poverty etc.) in the late seventies. Even if we were to attribute its roots to blues, so many genres could be said to have been derived from blues that it would be unfair to cite one or two specific examples from that genre to legitimise more widespread use of such imagery in this gnere when other 'related' genres have succeeded without it.

    FTR, like I said I'm far from a prude and there's nothing to 'get over'. I still have the 'g' in my waffles ;) .
  • / /\ / /\/ plus 2 months ago
    Well, it's straight up sexist and has a frat boy hyperbole sorta vibe. Like I don't think date rape exists in this musical universe or other negative real events that it seems to encourage. "Fuck a bitch to pass the time" - Real classy.
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  • Paul Dourado 11 months ago
    tyler the creator is that you????
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  • RG FILMS plus 11 months ago
    This is so good. Love the video and the track. I think the performance is what makes it so good. Oh, and of course one shot ;)
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  • Alex Smith plus 11 months ago
    Mystery Team!!!
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  • CDM 11 months ago
    Donald you are a true Renaissance man. Can't wait for you to do some stand up.. or a Childish Gambino show in Toronto
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  • Kevin Rice 11 months ago
    Amazing Donald, true soul, passion, and love come out in all forms through this song. So excited to see you in Boulder!
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  • Daniel Lee 11 months ago
    Stupid Awesome!
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  • John Nailer 11 months ago
    I need the lyrics
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  • Paulton 11 months ago
    Sick song Dong Lover! After hearing this it made me go buy Community on DVD.
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  • Issa Rae 11 months ago
    I watched this video at least 15 times yesterday, then woke up this morning and watched it again. Whoever said this video was "meh" is tripping BALLS. The simplicity of it is what makes this so damn EPIC.
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  • Mary Katherine 11 months ago
    Those lyrics are SICK AS SHITTTTT
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  • Nick Faiello 11 months ago
    Gonna be huge in 2011.
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  • John Nailer 11 months ago
    Awesome!
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  • EthanAlexLane plus 11 months ago
    It's hard to appreciate everything in just one viewing, despite the simplicity. And on top of that it's just plain awesome.
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  • Philipp Heidrich 11 months ago
    So awesome!
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  • Georgi Andinov 11 months ago
    nice :D
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  • Sean Christiansen 11 months ago
    ugh, cliché phrases and an annoying voice. fabolous' freestyles go 10x harder than this. and its weird to see this dude say "nigga"
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  • ryan mat 11 months ago
    apc swag.
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  • Lime 11 months ago
    WOW. This music video, makes me love that rapper, dude!
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  • Edward Lee 11 months ago
    joined to say this shit's ridiculous.
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  • Jeremy Ylagan 11 months ago
    amazing.
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  • Gagan Singh 11 months ago
    crazy good
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  • Isaiah Headen 11 months ago
    Damn son, bring it. Feel'n it.
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  • Javier Luis Crespo 11 months ago
    :O it's like if i just saw levar burton. come to MIAMI, please.
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  • Sean Christiansen 11 months ago
    tyler the creator who?
    just kidding, this video sucks camel dicks in hell.
    swag me out
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  • Max 11 months ago
    Hey, that was exceptional. I can see you being extraordinary in the near future. If you would like more beats like this, you should contact me Glover.

    “Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”
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  • Keenan Lynch plus 11 months ago
    Check Out this video its to Got this Money by Childish Gambino vimeo.com/20279931
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  • Kontrol 24/7 11 months ago
    this video was simplistic and that why I consider it dope
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  • Nic Stanich plus 11 months ago
    the eggo/ego lyrics #cangetit
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  • Corey Davidson 11 months ago
    Can't wait for the EP to drop,
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  • iVlad 11 months ago
    Whether I'm watching this Sloppy Drunk or Whiskey Neat...this is the fucking BOMB!!!
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  • Flying Around 11 months ago
    This is fucking amazing
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  • Jonathan Gass staff 11 months ago
    'Chillin with my n-words, say that like a white kid
    Yes you're booty's big as hers, say that to my white bitch
    So she don't get embarrassed'

    Classic!
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  • Edel Tripp 11 months ago
    All we need now is a remix to "Unregistered Sex Offender" and I'll be good on music for the rest of the year.
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  • Official Hype 11 months ago
    "Freaks and geeks" got featured on officialhype! Great video.

    officialhype.blogspot.com/2011/03/donald-glover-freaks-and-geeks-video.html
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  • Fave 11 months ago
    Did you just SMASH that track?! Damn, Donald.
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  • Jon Lall 11 months ago
    Dude definitely has skill but it just feels like an imitation of what's hot right now (his style lyrically, not the video - video is dope).
    But if Adam Sandler could do folk why can't Donald do rap right?
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  • Rasmus Jarborg 11 months ago
    Awesome. Simply awesome. Both the instrumentals, the speed of the rap, the Danny Glover fantastical lyrics and the video. Man, the video. Who knew putting a guy in a red hoodie in front of some lights and a camera could turn out so good. I’m putting this on high rotation and wide distribution.
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  • Andy Bonilla 11 months ago
    For those who think his lyrics are crude, you have to think about where he is in life right now. He won an Emmy, is on a pretty popular TV show and his career is just taking off. He is in the confident state of mind, so his lyrics reflect that. Dude is so incredibly talented its scary.
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  • seoulfully 11 months ago
    dope vid, dope song, loving the EP. commenting to use time clip: 3:13
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  • nicole rochin 11 months ago
    i'm really loving this song. it's so raw and the lyrics are on point. keep doing what you're doing! :D
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  • Karen Abad plus 11 months ago
    <3
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  • Eric Brownrout plus 10 months ago
    love your music, man. refreshing as hell. your lyrics are insane. keep doing what youre doing, por favor.
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  • Alex Bleyer 10 months ago
    Comediean, actor, AND rapper? You're quite a threat, my friend. Awesome song!
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  • kitsuney plus 10 months ago
    Clean shot, nice lights, playback seems off though at some point ...
    But like the shot very much
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  • codemaker 10 months ago
    I hear a motorcycle engine revving in the background on this track. Nice touch. When I first heard it I paused the song and looked for a motorcycle outside of my window :)
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  • timmy robinson 10 months ago
    Sickk
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  • LncasP 10 months ago
    In "Community" you're "génialissime", and as singer, you're simply the best!
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  • Irving Briscoe plus 9 months ago
    jizz in my pants
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  • Ren Brrrrrrrrrrr 9 months ago
    new favorite artist :O
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  • 1000ml 9 months ago
    Dope !
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