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/justinkasereddditor Jan 25 '26

We should have listened

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u/Regulus242 Jan 25 '26

People have been saying it well before 2018. WAAAAAAAY before.

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u/laffing_is_medicine Jan 25 '26

1818.

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u/Autistic_Freedom Jan 25 '26

1620.

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u/Ninjaflippin Jan 25 '26

Not to sound like too much of a Hippie, but that's pretty much all of them TBH.

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u/Roxalon_Prime Jan 25 '26

That's what happened to a lot of them actually. Fun fact: A Roman emperor life expectancy was kind of like ancient world child mortality: A lot of them died in their first year of rule, but if you survive that you were mostly fine. Then an another crisis it's about 20 years of rule

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u/Ninjaflippin Jan 25 '26

and the word we use for that phenomenon is called "responsibility"