Childish Gambino - Royalty Mixtape Review | DEHH
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Childish Gambino's Royalty finds him taking a step in a different direction this time choosing to work with other artists in the hip hop culture. Once the announcement was made he was dropping a new mixtape, many were excited and anxious to listen to it. Many of you have hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, and here asking for a review of Gambino's Royalty. We took a listen to Gambino's Royalty mixtape and share our thoughts on the project. If you haven't seen the Camp review, you can catch it here: • Childish Gambino - Cam... .
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Not even gonna lie, this mixtape grows on u like crazy. At first when I heard it I thought it was wack, maybe because I wasn't expecting it from Gambino. But years later, I think it's great. It really shows Gambinos versatility as an artist.
Facts
this project was not a sell out commercial chasing album it was him doing something different. bino hangs with a lot of rappers so he made some shit with them and he listens to a lot of trap shit so that was most likely the influence. it was an experiement.
I never thought Royalty was such a huge suprise, Gambino always had that Trap Flow but was a little more sentimental on the EP & Camp. Listen back to the mystery team ep or even just the I am just a rapper mixtapes. Sure they're not as bragadoshis but he's always had that style in his arsenal
I've been with Gambino since Sick Boi. Donald wanted to play the role and have some fun with this mixtape. He used his current success with BET and gaining new fans through different ways, and his newly made friendships with some of the hottest rappers out. It's not him abandoning who he is. He's just wanting to have fun and play a role because he can. I'd probably do the same thing.
i think childish gambino did royalty to broaden his fan base a little for his new album because people didn't believe he could rap hard but on his next album he is going to drop more of his style again so that more of his new fans can can hear what he is really about
Sekou Moriels spot on
Myke has some really good points. Gambino is pulling back from what got him here in the first place because of critics. I feel like it is happening in other ventures in his life like the fact he is leaving Community. Regardless, as a fan you want him to progress as an artist and not be one dimensional BUT we have seen a glimpse of a "old" C.G. on his new track, Centipede. I hope we get a project from him before the summer is over.
I hated Royalty when I first heard it because it wasn't him, but it was mostly to get more popular with fans and features. It grew on me, just glad he went back to his style on his next album.
I felt the same way. I'm he abandoned that style.
kens beard is asymetrical
this is why i was deeply looking forward to this review, i love the dynamic you guys have different point of views, and once again i felt the same way myke does. I felt all his lines were not as clever as they were on camp and i hope this mixtape is just a HEY I CAN THUG IT OUT. I loved camp it was one of last years top 5 for me. The features were really well done but he didnt stand out compared to them, toxic was my fav because danny brown went hard. Thank you guys for reviewing this. Nas next?
I definitely understand where Myke's point. I just think that since Childish Gambino has proclaimed that he is diverse he can put out this type of mixtape. If it was an album I would be a bit disappointed; only because, I would have loved to see the other "sides" of his artistry. Being that Royalty is a mixtape and we've seen what Gambino can do. . . .it's not that big of a deal. I liked the mixtape, but hey I'm a southern chick. lol
This was my first project listening to Gambino and i liked it a lot
I feel that some of the reviewers aren't letting him have his creative freedom as an artist
As long as he doesn't do a whole 360 then its okay to switch it up
I think some mixtapes are analysed too much, it's just a bit of fun.
"Gambino my mandigo we should do a movie, groupies lookin like the yakuza in my jacuzzi" that line was tough
Marcel Javae fandango*
I liked Royalty. To me he showed making that kind of "boom" music is easy. However, I do agree his previous work is better. I've been listening to Because The Internet lately. Great album.
Myke C Town always speaks the truth!
chance the rapper's verse on "they dont like me" was enough for me to check that dude out and he is amazing.
I love R.I.P.
S/o the cameraman!
Awesome review, i felt the same thing when listening to this mixtape as C-Town.
Camp was totally different, slow songs, real stuff.
The only track which i like on the album was: we ain't them.
I hope he was just experimenting and not listening to critics that his sound wasn't black enough.
I wonder why he got Beck on there but he killed his verse
And I think Bronchitis is the best song on this mixtape. Beck's production was flawless.
i didnt like this mixtape when it came out but now two years later and with the context of Because The Internet I can appreciate for what it is and the experimentation he used.
I will be worried if this style starts to dominate his next project. I think it's cool and fine for an artist to experiment. I can't wait to see what else he embarks on, because I know he's passionate about his artistry and it will be dope.
He was going to do Royalty anyway. Check his "Black Rock" Fuse interview, he said after Camp he was going to drop "bangers."
I totally agree. I really think he did it on purpose to say I CAN do this shit, just to reel the urban crowd in, then I think he is going to give them his other shit. Like C-Town, said he wasn't getting attention from the broader Hip Hop community. Camp (and his previous tapes) flew under the radar a bit. Sure enough, on my facebook feed all my mainstream music friends were sharing "Royalty"... thats all it takes. He wanted his skills to be recognized. We will see what the future holds though.
I know my pic gives it away, but I'm sad they didn't discuss the chance bino collab here.
AQGOAT24 IM WAITING ON BOTH THEIR ALBUMS & COLLAB!
Exactly! That's my issue, if he would have come out like this from the start, I wouldn't have had a problem. Hell, if he didn't stress how unique he was on all his previous works, I might have accepted this transition a little more, but what made love Gambino is like what Myke says, "I can see myself in Gambino's lyrics"....same for me I'm a suburban black kid who lies boom-bap and other genres of music...idk maybe I get too connected with the music haha.
His wordplay was were there put he added swag instead of what i would expect. In all honestly him rapping over Grizzly Bear was amazing as well the Run this Town freestyle he's capable of do anything he wants. He does have room for experimentation to some degree while he still be himself for me i love all the shit that made him popular All the Shine is an all time favorite.
myke was hurt af lmao
Firefly was a song on Camp that was released as a single after Royalty. It wasn't on Royalty, that was when he had already changed his sound.
Do a STN/MTN & Kauai EP Review
Please don't, they already botched this one.
Myke reviewed it and loved it.
+Tha Swami he liked Kauai only
Kauai I felt was better than STN/MTN
Only time where I agree more with Feefo than Myke.
I think something that ALOT of people are missing is the fact that Gambino himself said that this is an experiment. He's experimenting working with different artists making different beats. I'm sure his next album will have a lot of elements from Camp with a couple elements from Royalty. Plus, I thing this is Gambino's best project for showcasing that he can actually rap. I mean come on "Fandingo my mandingo, we should do a movie; groupies looking like the Yakuza in my Jacuzzi"
Thus was a very important tape for me. First time I ever heard Chance, Ab-Soul, Q, Nipsey, Danny Brown, etc... fire verses from RZA, Bun B, and mf BECK. Greatly expanded my music taste and got me thru a awkward transition as a person.
I get the concept of the name Childish Gambino, but he was ALWAYS Childish from his first album "Sick Boi" all the way to "Camp", and then he does something completely polar with Royalty. The only song he's done this year that was like his earlier stuff was "More than Normal" with Alan Wilkis. Everything else, "Favorite song" with Chance, "Young, Rich, Fly and Famous" with Cyhi, "FDB" with Young Dro, "Think of me" with DJ Premiere were all like Royalty. I just hope you're right about his next LP
gam is an artist who enjoys pushing and pursuing other creative boundaries (comic, writing, rapping) and he does the same within the genre of rap. He is displaying how easily he can go between alternative rap to the more mainstream sound with ease. It's more of a testament to his artistic range rather than a complete abandonment of his previous sound.
I think Gambino was trying to match up to the features on the album. Guys like ScHoolBoy Q, Danny Brown, Bun B, Ghostface, they don't really match the aesthetic Gambino usually has in his song. I don't know if it's a permanent change or not, but he definitely was trying to come across more urban to match the features on the album.
In my personal opinion i've been a CG fan for four years now and i feel ROYALTY was an experiment that work out in some ways but, also left me puzzle. However, i did enjoy it overall i like some of the productions like Shoulda Known, Bronchitis,We Aint Them, One Up were great. He was due for a feature project so i don't feel like he'll change commercial at all.
As a huge Childish Gambino fan I felt that Royalty was a experimental album. On Camp, EP,Culdesac,IAJAR 2 he didn't have any features.I think he wanted to learn from people that he looked up to.I didn't like Royalty as much as Camp, but it was still a solid project. Hopefully he will take what he learned from everyone and put it on the next album.
"Waka, Jeezy, and Future got the streets locked down, copycats making sure TIP keep that crown"
On another note, I feel like Gambino did totally change up his style, which I did feel some kind of way about. With this being said, like Feefo said, I believe he did down south better than most other artist, and he isn't even a "down south artist"... Kudos to CG
I totally agree with this review. I thought Camp was a much better and polished product. However i still place this project in my top 5 of the year mainly because i still enjoyed the tape. The sound was completely different however in my eyes i see this as gambino experimenting with different sounds. Im just waiting for his next project now and see where he goes from there because i only got that true "different" gambino sound on a couple of tracks. Overall good product but he can do much better
I get what Myke and Kinge are saying about him changing, but on the songs that Gambino was alone, or with someone like Beck, he was his regular self. This factor tells me that on his next project, if he's alone for the most part, he'll be doing the same stuff that he used to do, which I am very hopeful for.
I felt like this wasn't as great as earlier projects, but it wasn't bad at all. The features were great, the production was banging, and his rhyming fit well for this type of style. I felt like he did made this mixtape to show people that there's a different side to him, that he can do this type of hip-hop better than most artists these days. Overall, it felt like he was experimenting, and I'm sure Gambino doesn't care about gaining new listeners, he's already made it big with Camp.
I'm really surprised how yall are gravitating towards Bino, I thought yall would rip into him. This review and the one on camp conveys great open mindedness. Good job guys.
what i think his plan was to give you what people dont really do on albums such as Camp and then put out something that attracts attention to the REAL hip-hop fans then bring them into a world such as Camp so i think he got it under control, but i think he is right about him not having a big audience
I can definitely agree with myke on some levels he can still spit but idk why he tried sounding more G on this I miss nerdy gambino now he's swagged out gambino fuckkk
Please, listen to the first track on Royalty. He explains why he made the mixtape, and it actually does have a deeper meaning that seems to pass people by. Donald started from nothing, and now he's something, hence, he's "Royalty". It makes sense why he would made this mixtape. I agree there are some throwaways, but you'll like it more if you learn the concept behind the project.
I'd like to see see them do a mini flashback review of this project. Royalty is dope
Man I wish Gambino and XV did a mixtape together. Those pop culture punchlines would be CRAZY
Royalty was a mixtape. He wasn't charging money for it and he was trying something new.He was proving to everyone that said he was a punchline rapper that he was more than that. I enjoyed a style switchup and I'm sure he'll go to old Gambino for the album.
Nah, man. I've been literally following Gambino since Sick Boi. I have his mcDJ stuff that was released forever ago. I'm a huge fan of this guy, I'm just not gonna get upset at him for wanting to try something different. Living as a black male in America is contradictory in itself. You gotta fight to be who you are while fighting to be who you are among the people that look like you and fighting against everyone else who doesn't get it. This reflects that dual citizenship of sorts.
I'd like to see an episode about your favorite Hip-Hop instrumental albums.
In my opinion, I think Gambino did this mixtape to prove that he could rap on this style of production and content, better than the rappers who do it on a consistent basis, that's what I got from it. I will agree though that his content was far different on this project than what it usually is. This project reminded me of Wale's Back to the Feature where it was very collaboration heavy and it was a bunch of emcees just rapping. If that's what you as a listener are a fan of you'll like this tape
I definitely feel Myke's and Kinge's points on this mixtape, but I do like Royalty. It shocked me but I think this will be an experimental phase. Also, I think it's just another style he can pull off.
He's experimenting with his music. Yeah it wasnt great compared to his other projects but it was still good because it showed that his willing to experiment. And a good rapper no artist isn't afraid to experiment.
Going from one mixtape style to another style doesn't make the project bad. So you telling me a person can't start with a style then try something new? I disagree with that...
they can but it wasnt that good
+Jawaun Monger yeah it was...but music is a opinionated and personal preference
Austin Robinson ok
If a rapper's gonna dramatically change his sound, I've got no problem with them doing it on a free mixtape.
That said, I thought a lot of the features on this mixtape were either weak or average (aside from Ghost, Danny, Ab, and Q), and I completely agree with Myke that it sounded unfinished. It really irritated me on Bronchitis when the song cut out after 40-45 secs, especially since that was sounding like one of the better Gambino verses on the mixtape.
I never listened to Camp so I had no opinion of Gambino heading into Royalty. I think that's why I enjoyed the project as a mixtape alone. Its on my ipod, but i give it a listen every now and then. I think I'm going to go listen to Camp so that i can understand the conversation better.
I think it's fair. People listen to certain MCs for certain things. I don't want to hear Rick Ross try to sing about relationships like Drake and I don't want to hear Nas try to make a trap banger like 2 Chainz.
After watching this I thought I would hate Royalty. But then I heard it and thought it was INCREDIBLE! Sure he changed up his style but this was still an awesome mixtape for that sort of style.
Myke took all the words from my mouth. I was excited for this mixtape, now I'm just back to his old stuff.
The third guy/fifth guy.... are they fuckin' serious? I mean really? These guy's critiques are so subjective. When critiquing music you have to be objective. By the way, don't think that because Gambino "acts nerdy" on Camp that he can't have any other qualities within his personality. Hell, many people think I'm a nerd, BUT in that same breath I have a nuanced swagger that would make most of these guys who think they are "hip" nowadays look like a fuckin' "Goofy" as they they like to call'em. Also, much of what people consider "nerdy" about him actually isn't being nerdy, it's simply him being his own man and following his own dream and being introspective about it while creating new culture. People only call it nerdy because it doesn't fit snug within the parameters of how THEY live life and how they think other people should act or exist. Go take a look at a Chief Keef video... now that guy is goofy. Oh yeah... Gambino doesn't give a fuck about a "black card". Most of the guys who claim to hold one aren't black.... .they're slaves(mentally).
Yeah but he still brought that substance in his other two mixtapes, just a more concentrated burst of it on the albums, so we expected it to exceed those two and it didn't. He didn't make every beat, otherwise it wouldn't have said "Produced by" on the side of every track and had many different producers. Beck was great on it too. But many of the songs and his execution of them did sound very commercialized, even though he did it well, he was still talking about general rapper stuff.
Thanks for the reply too! you guys really are cool thanks for always putting out great vids
I definitely agree with you on that point. Camp and EP are Gambino classics/hall of fames. But I can enjoy royalty.
I would love to be in on these discussions. Very few friends of mine are hip hop heads. It's so chill and shit. Actual intelligent conversations regarding hip hop, whats not to love about it?
We get paid to keep y'all hype....that's that turnup green is a good punchline
I agree. And yeah, I'll have to keep listening to Camp, EP, and Culdesac, but I get your points though. You really do have to meet it were it's at.
I'm very happy that ya'll reviewed this mixtape, i've been waiting for this lol :)
Okay,
I see a lot of people saying "Camp and before is for white boys." No, it's for intelligent kids who have been through it. I really got into Gambino with Culdesac. Because it was relateable. Let's face it, Royalty wasn't very good, with an exception for a few songs. I'd rather he stay true to himself and forget what the critics have to stay.
I love anything old Gambino. There was passion and power behind his lyrics. In royalty yes to me it sounds like some commercial stuff that I don't particularly care for, but like most artists Gambino experiments and waits for feedback using these mixtapes. Whether he sold out or not is dependent on what he comes up with in the next few years. Hopefully more of his unique style and less of this mainstream money and bitches crap.
If you were to listen to the album not knowing CG, you'd probably like it. But since he completely changed the style people hate cus it's "not him" dont let the beat distract you from the lyrics. His flow in this mixtape is the same just changed up to suit the beat. Plus he's always going to be that nerdy Oreo but he's in a different stage in life experiencing new things so people change thus, changing the topic of his flow.
Like he says, " "Rest in peace to them niggas who was dead wrong
Toni Braxton to them niggas, that's a sad song
Cry a river, Timberlake the whole industry
Record the whole album in my living room in Italy,
Niggas who wasn't feelin' me secretly want a handout
Keep your mouth shut, I can probably help your man out" them refrences, his delivery, his flow, amazing for his first time!
Oh I perfectly understand that, I'm a musician too, I know doing the same thing over again will get boring, the artist has to grow and mature with their music. I liked the mixtape, but the only thing I didn't like was that I liked him because he is different and what he had done with Royalty sounded like any other southern gangsta rapper's mixtape. If I wanted that I could just listen to the radio. I'd like to see him grow and change in a more unique direction, but I did like the mixtape.
I feel like he did change his sound to a more "gangster rap" sound but he still has some of the Camp sound on it like Silk Pillow and some of his verses still had that sound if you listen to the lyrics.
Prolly one of my fav gambino mixtapes and ive listend to every tape by him
One thing about the features he said on I think Dj Sway that he wanted to get rappers featured that haven't really been out for a while like rappers that he listened to when he was young.
First time i've ever disagreed with you mike. It takes getting used to hearing donald do this style, but i digged it mostly because of the TDE/Danny Brown features and the hardcore production. The beats were sick. Bumps in the whip. His lyrics were not as memorable on this mixtape, but i still digged it.
Do a review on because the internet
i really liked the mixtape, it was something different from culdesac and camp, its nice to hear old gambino but sometimes you just have to break away from the "i was poor when i was a kid and i am a nerd" style that was in those two and he did it here, this was him on his "ATL" swag and it showed and I liked it, wasn't my favorite, but i still liked it especially "won't stop, unneccessary, arrangement and shoulda known" of course if you were expecting emo gambino you would be upset
Guys we have to rally to get these guys to review some older classics. It could be a new segment.
One guy is afraid of change!!! Looks like his girl is rockin that Gambino Girl forever bracelet that she brought online stop the hating #Gambino is dope period!!!
The dude with the dreadlocks is completely right. Childish kept saying earlier on that he would always do him, regardless of what critics said-he had basically told Pitchfork to go fuck themselves in one song. But it's pretty easy to tell from this entire mix tape that he really took the shit talked about Camp to heart and drastically changed his sound to please them. It's a shame that he copped out like that 'cause in turn he's lost that unique flair that all his older stuff had.
I totally agree with the third guy, very great analysis of Gambino's music
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When I first listened to this mixtape, I just listened to it at face value, not thinking about the fact that it's Gambino and not really paying too much attention to the underlying meaning. Then after I finished listening the first time, I thought, hey this is good sounding mixtape... Then I remembered it was Gambino and that everything Myke and said came to me. I could not quote on this album. So basically I liked the album but it was not a Gambino record and I've been a fan since Culdesac
He made like every beat on that mixtape, and even experimented with other producers and did a song with Beck. Also you forget that Culdesac and Camp were albums .
I'm kinda on the fence with him. To me, he comes close to being a great musician, but he can improve on his rhymes a little more, and I agree with Mike on using artist like Girls and Grizzly Bear on a beat, I thought those tracks were cool, wish he'd go further in that direction...
Damn I have yet to listen to the mixtape. I just got into Gambino and bought his Camp album, money well spent
I thought it was really good. the songs fxcking bump! and i loved all the singing he did on Camp and Camp in general but this was something different for CG a breath of fresh air so i liked it
Gambino said himself this was a experiment he hasn't changed he just wanted to try 'black rap' or show he can do that, which he did do better.
The Culdesac and Camp Gambino will be back!
Not sure if you noticed, but Ken was in this video as well and actually brought up the point that I cosigned on. Did you happen to see that? Why is everything directed at me like I'm the only one speaking?
ROYALTY is his new crew... He says that this MIXTAPE was an experiment he wants to b a Diverse artist... Don't worry Myke he ain't sellin out.... I fuck wit this MIXTAPE it bumps in the whip
It was, "Wake, Future, Gucci got the streets lock down. Copy Cats making sure Tip keep that crown.", in the line before he was talking about how he was talking to his brother about what Atlanta wants music wise.
I can totally understand Mike's opinion, but I still liked Royalty a lot. But I want to see the "Camp Gambino" on his next album.
cuz hes the best in the game at the moment and he really went hard and ripped a whole generation apart thats why
ill say this. I liked royalty... for awhile. then I got tired of it.But I can always go back to camp or the ep. like those two are timeless
Its not that it had to be the same as his other works, it was that it sounded the same as any other rapper's mixtapes. It was commercialized and didn't have the substance that he brought in Camp and Culdesac.
Danny Brown, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul... only heard Toxic and Unnecessary but all their verses were killin Gambino's, prob cuz it sounds authentic. Gambino has flow, alliteration, enunciation, and punchlines. Some of my friends like this guy and he def has talent but...doesn't bump in the phone.
his beats were still inventive to me, prime example the tracks with beck. But most of it is that happy kind of yeah we on top kind of music so i can understand you not liking it, like when you said you prefer sad music to happy and that the happy makes you sad and the sad makes you happy. Anyway i do appreciate that you replied to me and don't get me wrong i like you mike and usually i side with you. I'm more of an introvert but if i'm good mood (also im 17 just graduated high school) i'll put
Gambino
2008-2009 - nerdy swag
2010-2011 - more nerd less swag
2012 - less nerd more swag
i liked this mixtape though. thats how his life was changed after camp. more people noticed him, contacted him, etc. he is learning to be a better artist from others.
this reflects his life after camp, i guess.
i dont think Myke can judge this because like most fans said, if you followed him you expected the mixtape to be different from everything else. Its not his best work but i still liked it. I can completely understand where Myke is coming from with his arguement but its an experiment and as an artist Gambino should be allowed to change his sound when he wants.