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By 2018-05-11 13:52:33 UTC If there is one piece of pop culture that will define 2018, it's Donald Glover's music video for his song 'This Is America.' The video, released as Glover's rapper alter ego Childish Gambino, debuted on Saturday when Donald Glover was doing double duty on SNL, hosting the show and performing as the show's musical guest. In less than a week since 'This Is America' was released, the video has already garnered more than 63 million views and has been analyzed by everyone from Doreen St.

Felix at to Dear White People creator Justin Simien. But 'This Is America' is not the first time Glover has used music videos to make salient critiques of pop culture and American culture. Glover began making mixtapes as Childish Gambino in 2008 and his first studio album Camp debuted in 2011.

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Since then, the rapper has sporadically released music videos, many of which feature strange twists to them. For instance, in 'Telegraph Ave,' Glover depicts what seems to be a romantic vacation.until the rapper is hit by a car and remerges as a tentacled monster. But even with those trippy scenarios, Glover's music videos have been filled with themes and ideas that the rapper is highlighting in 'This Is America.' Here are three older Donald Glover music videos you should watch to help you understand 'This Is America.' A big theme explored in 'This Is America' is the question of who is seen and what pain is acknowledged. In that video, every time Glover shoots someone, the gun, which is delicately placed on a cloth, is treated with more care than the actual victims, who are dragged away.

But Glover actually broached idea that certain people and certain pain is invisible in 2011 in his music video for his song 'Bonfire.' The video is directed like a horror movie. At the start Glover wakes up in a forest with a rope around his neck and he coughs up blood.

T ry, if you can, to watch This Is America, the new music video from Childish Gambino, while keeping your eyes off the man in the camera’s gaze. It’s not easy. You may have to watch it twice.

In the distance he sees a bonfire with campers sitting around it, one person telling a story. As he runs toward the bonfire, he also notices another person in the woods walking towards the group holding a noose and a knife. Donald gets to the campers and tries to warn them but none of them are able to see Glover. The man with the knife then jumps out of the woods and it's revealed that it was all an elaborate ghost story. At the end of the video, as the camper walks away, Glover falls to the ground, and once again wakes up with a noose around his neck, suggesting that the victim of the story was Glover himself. Big country crossing.