So why are so many bothered that LA’s Childish Gambino has never slung drugs to make ends meet, and that he didn’t come up the hard way? That he broke through as everything else before stepping out as a rapper? First a writer (30 Rock), then an actor (Community), both in the comedy field, the man born Donald Glover’s reputation in his on-screen-and-behind-it endeavours is impressive indeed. Missy Elliott and OutKast showed, years ago now, that flamboyance, a distinct detachment from the everyday, reaps substantial commercial and critical dividends. Rap’s evergreen obsession with realness would be its undoing if it wasn’t palpably evident that message-boarders talking shit on the Internet don’t directly influence what rhymes make the mainstream and which ones miss.
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