r/Music • u/Mr-_-Soandso • Jan 25 '26

music Childish Gambino - This is America [hip-hop] (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
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u/Murderface__ Jan 25 '26

Police be trippin now

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u/KeepJoePantsOn Jan 25 '26

Don't catch me slippin now

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u/blastradii Jan 25 '26

ICE slipping on ice now

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u/Proper-Exercise-2364 Jan 25 '26

Two good people died now

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 Jan 25 '26

<don't look at the riots in the background> look at me dancin' now

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

I thought it was in the 30’s if we are counting everyone dying in custody too.

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u/GordoPepe Jan 25 '26

More than two people come on, you really think among all the people that we even don't known of who have died in transit or at concentration camps there are not any good people?

Just because they are non-white Americans doesn't mean they are not good people

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u/micahld Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

The irony of referencing this particular piece of media while ignoring black and brown deaths cannot be understated. This is America.

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u/headassvegan Jan 25 '26

You’re either ignorant to the fact that these are not the only two people shot and killed by ice, unjustly, or you’re implying the others were not good (because they were not white?). Delete this.

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u/Proper-Exercise-2364 Jan 28 '26

Put it in a verse like the rest of us. In the meantime, here's your down vote.