Childish Gambino Lights Up The Week's Video Game References In Hip Hop

Childish Gambino and Black Milk both get to rapping about video games in the past week's hip hop releases.

Nov 05, 2011

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We keep our ears tuned into hip hop day in and day out; that's us pointing out the obvious. But nothing makes us hit rewind with more satisfaction than when a rapper drops a gem about video games. This is a countdown of the past week's hottest hip hop tracks doing just that.

Childish Gambino (it's Donald--Mr. Glover, if you're nasty) is on some ol' Toe Jam & Earl on the first video for his upcoming CAMP album, while Black Milk and Danny Brown clocked in overtime, lacing this week's countdown with two appearances.

Lyric: “No Xbox 360, but the game twisted.” (3:13)
Complex says: Again we'd like to clarify: For our intents and purposes during each week’s countdown of video game lyrical references in hip hop, if you say you’re not talking about video games, then you are talking about video games.

Lyric: “Like Dance Dance Revolution / I'm for the advance and there’s probably restitution” (Danny Brown) (0:24)

Complex says: This is the first of two entries from the Black and Brown album. Danny Brown goes from calling Dance Dance Revolution gay a split second before, to calling for revolution and promoting restitution for slavery. He's all over the place.

Lyric: “Hanging in the islands, looking for Earl like ToeJam” (0:55)

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Childish Gambino Lights Up The Week's Video Game References In Hip Hop

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