Author: Eliott C. McLaughlin / Source: CNN
(CNN)Childish Gambino is back with another video that has folks talking, but rather than the political overtones that dominated “This Is America,” the latest conversation revolves around a host of cartoon cameos.
“Feels Like Summer” is a laid-back R&B track with the hook, “You can feel it in the streets, on a day like this the heat, it feels like summer.” It touches on some political points — climate change, lack of water, dying bees — but nothing as overt as “This Is America,” which tackled police brutality, gun violence, media misdirection and the use of African-Americans as a brand shield.
According to Genius, a website that features annotated rap lyrics, the video is meant to symbolize Childish Gambino leaving the hip-hop community.
Some of the appearances make sense: Kodak Black, who was arrested earlier this year for house arrest violations, can’t come out to play with Lil Pump and Trippie Redd when they knock on his door.
Other references are head scratchers: Why is Azealia Banks in a tree?Fam Rothstein — the music supervisor for the hit show, “Atlanta,” created by Donald Glover, the name by which Childish Gambino was better known before his music career took off in 2011 — credited the video’s animation to Justin Richburg, whose artwork has appeared in “Atlanta.”
Yeezy appears in a Make America Great Again hat, no doubt a reference to him controversially championing President Donald Trump earlier this year. As West weeps, former first lady Michelle Obama appears from the darkness behind him and embraces him.
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