Donald Glover’s hip-hop lives in the shadow of his comedy

Joke rapper and Atlanta native, Glover, takes his rhymes seriously, despite his day job as a writer for 30 Rock”“

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Atlanta native Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) cut his teeth on comedy. He has written for “30 Rock,” acted on NBC’s “Community,” and has a Comedy Central special. But just because comedy seeps into his rap (oh yeah, he’s a rapper too) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take him seriously. Glover said to the Village Voice:

“I never go into an album thinking, ‘This needs to be a little funnier.’ I only look at scripts or jokes that way. There’s no winking at the culture of hip-hop. I’m dead serious.”