This Is America (song)

The song features a gospel-style choir and ad-libs from Young Thug, Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd, BlocBoy JB, 21 Savage, and Quavo.{{Cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/music/2018/05/childish-gambino-this-is-america-ad-lib-list|title=Here Are the Rappers Who Contributed to Childish Gambino's "This Is America"|last=Espinoza|first=Joshua|date=May 6, 2018|website=Complex|access-date=May 8, 2018}} Young Thug returns to supply the song's outro, garnering him writing credits. The lyrics primarily address black culture in the United States and gun violence in the country.{{Cite news|url=https://mashable.com/2018/05/06/childish-gambino-donald-glover-this-is-america/#XHmh8LIO9sqw|title=Donald Glover tackles gun violence in powerful video for 'This Is America,' his new single|last=Tesema|first=Martha|date=May 6, 2018|work=Mashable|access-date=May 7, 2018}} It also touches on the subject of police brutality and misconduct.{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/ab99774f8b5c4b9cbb803e6900c75fe5|title='This Is America' seals Glover's rep as protest artist|last=Holland|first=Jesse J.|date=May 9, 2018|work=AP News|access-date=May 10, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/entertainment/childish-gambino-this-america-video/index.html|title='This Is America': The Childish Gambino video explained|last=France|first=Lisa Respers|date=May 7, 2018|work=CNN|access-date=May 8, 2018}} Pitchfork's Stephen Kearse described the song as a representation of the "tightrope of being black", with the song "built on the sharp contrast between jolly, syncretic melodies and menacing trap cadences".{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/childish-gambino-this-is-america/|title="This Is America" by Childish Gambino Review {{!}} Pitchfork|website=pitchfork.com|access-date=May 11, 2018}}

Glover has stated that the idea for the song "started as a joke," elaborating in a video interview with GQ: “To be completely honest, ‘This is America’ — that was all we had was that line. It started as a Drake diss, to be honest, as like a funny way of doing it. But then I was like, this s–t sounds kind of hard though. So I was like, let me play with it.”{{Cite web |title=Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters |url=https://www.gq.com/video/watch/donald-glover-iconic-characters |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=GQ |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |date=2023-04-05 |title=Donald Glover Says 'This Is America' Was Originally a Drake Diss Track |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/donald-glover-this-is-america-originally-drake-diss-track-mentoring-malia-obama-1235298386/ |access-date=2025-02-04 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}} (As Childish Gambino, Glover had a mostly one-sided feud with Drake that began in 2014; he has since clarified his 'bravado' was just part of the gig and no hate was intended.)

A number of listeners accused Gambino of plagiarism over "This Is America", pointing out the similarities between the song and "American Pharaoh" by Jase Harley.{{Cite news |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/childish-gambino-collaborator-denies-this-is-america-plagiarism-allegations/ |title=Childish Gambino Collaborator Denies "This Is America" Plagiarism Allegations |last=Strauss |first=Matthew |date=June 25, 2018 |work=Pitchfork |access-date=June 28, 2018}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2018/06/childish-gambino-accused-of-ripping-this-song-for-this-is-america/ |title=Childish Gambino Accused of Ripping Song for "This Is America" |last=Miller |first=Kai |date=June 25, 2018 |work=XXL |access-date=June 28, 2018}} CBS News stated, "The tracks have a similar sound, and share similar themes in the lyrics." Harley stated that he felt "This Is America" was influenced by his song. At the time, he did not have an issue with this.{{cite web|url=https://www.thestranger.com/music/2018/06/26/28262793/genius-donald-glovers-this-is-america-sounds-like-a-rip-off-of-jase-harleys-american-pharaoh|title=Genius Donald Glover's This Is America Sounds Like a Rip-Off of Jase Harley's American Pharaoh|last=Mudede|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Mudede|date=June 26, 2018|website=The Stranger (newspaper)|access-date=January 18, 2023}} However, when Gambino did not acknowledge him at the Grammys, Harley was upset and called Gambino a "house slave".{{cite web|url=https://www.theroot.com/this-is-shots-fired-jase-harley-calls-childish-gambino-1832566037|title=Jase Harley Criticizes Childish Gambino After Grammy Win|last=Stidhum|first=Tonja Renée|date=February 12, 2019|website=The Root|access-date=January 18, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/12/childish-gambino-house-slave-jase-harley-grammy-win-this-is-america/|title=Childish Gambino Dubbed a 'House Slave' by Jase Harley After Grammy Win|date=February 12, 2019|website=TMZ|access-date=January 18, 2023}} Glover's manager, Fam Rothstein, denied any plagiarism.{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/childish-gambino-accused-plagiarism-this-is-america-Jase-Harley-american-pharaoh-2018-06-26/ |title=Childish Gambino's manager denies accusation of plagiarism over "This is America" |last=Park |first=Andryea |date=June 26, 2018 |work=CBS News |access-date=June 28, 2018}}

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The music video was directed by Hiro Murai and released on YouTube simultaneously with Gambino's performance of the song on Saturday Night Live. The video received about 12.9 million views in 24 hours,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2018/05/09/childish-gambinos-this-is-america-breaks-youtube-record/|title=Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' Clocks 55 Million Views In Just Four Days|last=Klein|first=Jessica|date=May 9, 2018|website=www.tubefilter.com|access-date=2019-01-08}} and has over 900 million views as of April 2024.{{Citation|last=ChildishGambinoVEVO|title=Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Music Video)|date=5 May 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY|access-date=2019-01-08}} In an interview with the New York Times, Murai discussed his upcoming season for Atlanta, a show created by and starring Glover. He stated: "There's sort of a world-weariness in both this season and the music video. They're both reactions to what's happening in the world."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/arts/hiro-murai-Atlanta-finale-this-is-america-interview.html|title=Hiro Murai on the 'Atlanta' Finale and 'This Is America' Video|last=Coscarelli|first=Joe|date=2018-05-10|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

The video contains many scenes involving violence. It starts off with a shirtless Gambino dancing through a warehouse, interacting with a series of chaotic scenes. According to Murai, the video was inspired by the films Mother! and City of God. Prettyman states "The video tests us, taunting us to keep pace as we try to decode every gesture and calculation".{{Cite journal|last=Prettyman|first=Michele|date=2020|title=The Persistence of 'Wild Style': Hip-Hop and Music Video Culture at the Intersection of Performance and Provocation|journal=Journal of Cinema and Media Studies|language=en|volume=59|issue=2|pages=151–157|doi=10.1353/cj.2020.0008|s2cid=214502969|issn=2578-4919}} Choreographed by Sherrie Silver, Gambino and his entourage of young dancers perform several viral dance moves including the South African Gwara gwara and "Shoot" popularized by BlocBoy JB, who is one of the ad-lib contributors on the song. Gambino's dancing is contrasted against moments of violence. Only 53 seconds into the video, Gambino shoots a man in the back of the head with a handgun, while assuming a comical stance similar to a Jim Crow caricature. The first person depicted as being shot in the video, a guitarist who had been accompanying Gambino's singing up to that point, was musician Calvin the Second. This first shooting also marks a transition in the music, from an African "folk-inspired melody" to "dark, pulsing trap".{{cite web |last1=Amoako |first1=Aida |title=Why the Dancing Makes 'This Is America' So Uncomfortable to Watch |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/this-is-america-childish-gambino-donald-glover-kinesthetic-empathy-dance/559928/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=6 February 2019 |date=2018-05-08}} At a later point, Childish Gambino uses a Kalashnikov patterned automatic weapon to gun down a church choir. File:This Is America video screenshot.png, received general controversy by the media.]]

In both scenes a child appears from off-screen holding a red cloth, on which Gambino gently lays the weapon used, while the bodies are simply dragged away. A group of children in school uniforms joins Gambino in dancing, only to panic and scatter when the music imitates the sound of gunfire and Gambino positions his arms as if firing a gun, after which he lights a joint. Other schoolchildren are seen on a catwalk above, using their cell phones to record the chaos happening in the video as Gambino sings the lyrics "This a celly / That's a tool". Martha Tesema, writer for website Mashable, stated that "cell phones have been used as tools to broadcast police shooting, rioting against, or choking black people in this country". The word "celly" might also be a reference to a prison cell, making the line a reference to the disproportionate incarceration of black Americans.{{original research inline |date=October 2024}} Throughout the video, numerous vehicles from several decades ago are featured, many of them with their hazard lights flashing and the driver's side door ajar. American singer SZA makes a cameo appearance towards the end of the video, seated atop one of these vehicles. The video ends with Gambino in a darkened portion of the warehouse, fearfully running towards the camera while being chased by several white people.

The dance moves were choreographed by Rwandan-born Sherrie Silver based on various African dances such as the Ghanaian Azonto, Nigerian Shoki, and the South African Gwara gwara, as well as gyration or walking moves from Angola and Ivory Coast.{{Cite web|url=https://www.qz.com/africa/1280777/childish-gambinos-african-pop-dance-moves-were-created-by-this-rwandan-choreographer/amp/|title=The choreographer who brought Africa to Childish Gambino's 'This is America' had a clear message|first=Lynsey|last=Chutel|date=17 May 2018 }}

The music video received widespread critical acclaim. Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic described the initial reaction on Twitter as "a gushing river of well-deserved praise" and the video as "the most talked-about music video of recent memory." Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone commented that the video "is a surreal, visceral statement about gun violence in America".{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-childish-gambinos-caustic-new-video-this-is-america-w519862|title=Watch Childish Gambino's Caustic Video for New Song 'This Is America'|last=Kreps|first=Daniel|date=May 6, 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=May 7, 2018}} Pitchfork awarded the song the distinction of "Best New Track". Billboard critics ranked it 10th among the "greatest music videos of the 21st century."{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/8466543/100-greatest-music-videos-of-the-21st-century |title=The 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 21st Century: Critics' Picks |date=July 24, 2018 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=July 24, 2018}} Mahita Gajanan of Time quoted music history professor Guthrie Ramsey at the University of Pennsylvania:

{{Blockquote|text=He's talking about the contradictions of trying to get money, the idea of being a black man in America. It comes out of two different sound worlds. Part of the brilliance of the presentation is that you go from this happy major mode of choral singing that we associate with South African choral singing, and then after the first gunshot it moves right into the trap sound.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/5267890/childish-gambino-this-is-america-meaning/|title=An Expert's Take on the Symbolism in Childish Gambino's Viral 'This Is America' Video|last=Gajanan|first=Mahita|date=May 7, 2018|magazine=Time|access-date=May 24, 2018}}}}

Will Gompertz, arts editor of the BBC, asserted that "This Is America" was a "powerful and poignant allegorical portrait of 21st Century America, which warrants a place among the canonical depictions of the USA from Grant Wood's American Gothic to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, from Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware to America the Beautiful by Norman Lewis".{{cite news|title=Will Gompertz reviews Childish Gambino's This is America video |newspaper=BBC News|first=Will|last=Gompertz|author-link=Will Gompertz|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44062444|date=12 May 2018|access-date=29 December 2018}}

In December 2018, Billboard ranked "This Is America" as the 6th best song of the year.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2018/8489483/best-songs-2018-staff-picks|title=Billboard's 100 Best Songs of 2018: Critics' Picks|magazine=Billboard|date=December 11, 2018| access-date=13 January 2019}}

The music video won the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video,{{Cite web|url=https://camerimage.pl/en/laureaci-energacamerimage-2018/|title=EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2018 WINNERS – Camerimage 2018|website=camerimage.pl|access-date=2019-01-08}} as well as the Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 61st Grammy Awards.

On May 5, 2018, Glover hosted the nineteenth episode of the 43rd season of Saturday Night Live. Childish Gambino was the musical guest in the same episode, and Glover performed two songs as his alter ego, the second of which was "This Is America". Daniel Kaluuya, best known as the star of the film Get Out (which the music video reportedly references), introduced the song's performance.{{cite web|url=http://hollywoodlife.com/2018/05/06/snl-childish-gambino-performs-this-is-america-video-watch/|title='SNL': Childish Gambino Delivers 'This Is America' With Intro By 'Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya|first=Scott|last=Baumgartner|date=May 6, 2018|work=Hollywood Life|access-date=June 4, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/this-is-america-breaking-down-childish-gambino-s-powerful-new-music-video-20180510-p4zee0.html|title=This Is America: Breaking down Childish Gambino's powerful new music video|date=May 9, 2018|work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=June 4, 2018}}

Several artists attracted attention and millions of views for creating covers of the song and music video with altered lyrics and themes, retaining the song's instrumental and the general structure of its music videos.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44140500|title=YouTuber defends Gambino 'women's edit'|date=May 16, 2018|publisher=BBC|access-date=June 4, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/17/nicole-arbours-feminist-makeover-of-childish-gambi/|title=Nicole Arbour's feminist makeover of Childish Gambino's 'This is America' sparks backlash|last=Ernst|first=Douglas|publisher=The Washington Times|access-date=June 4, 2018}}

Bay Area rapper Lil B featured a remix of his own on his Options mixtape titled "This Is the BasedGod" in October 2018.{{Cite web|title=Listen to Lil B's New Mixtape and "This Is America" Cover|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/598eyn/listen-to-lil-bs-new-mixtape-and-this-is-america-cover|access-date=2022-02-04|website=www.vice.com|date=18 October 2018 |language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2018-10-17|title=Lil B Drops New Mixtape Options: Listen|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lil-b-drops-new-mixtape-options-listen/|access-date=2022-02-04|website=Pitchfork|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Lil B Reworks Childish Gambino's "This Is America" on New 'Options' Mixtape|url=https://www.complex.com/music/2018/10/lil-b-options-mixtape-stream|access-date=2022-02-04|website=Complex|language=en}}

The music video also spawned popular Internet memes, particularly those in which the audio was replaced so that Childish Gambino appeared to be dancing in time to another song. Versions using Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" and Banda Blanca's "Sopa de Caracol" were some of the most viewed.{{cite web|url=https://mashable.com/2018/05/13/childish-gambino-this-is-america-carly-rae-jepsen/#47v_x1Y30aq2|title=You can't shut down 'This Is America' memes. That's what 'This Is America' is about.|first=Adam|last=Rosenberg|date=13 May 2018 |publisher=Mashable|access-date=June 4, 2018}}{{cite web| url=https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/this-is-america-call-me-maybe-parody/|title=Childish Gambino's "This is America" x "Call Me Maybe" Mashup|date=June 4, 2018|work=Highsnobiety|access-date=June 4, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-44198683|title=Watanegui consupu: qué significa realmente el estribillo de Sopa de Caracol, el éxito musical de Honduras que dio la vuelta al mundo|trans-title=Watanegui consupu: what does the chorus of Sopa de Caracol, the Honduran musical hit that went around the world, really mean?|language=es|date=May 24, 2018|work=BBC Mundo|access-date=June 3, 2022}}

The song is interpolated into a scene in the film Guava Island (released 2019), which was directed by Hiro and features Glover and Rihanna.{{cite web | title=Guava Island: Fans respond to Donald Glover and Rihanna's new film | website=BBC News | date=14 April 2019 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47925954 | access-date=22 January 2023}}

Covers and parodies of the song were generated around the world, including:

• "This Is Nigeria" was released by Nigerian rapper Falz released on May 25, 2018, highlighting the nation's issues with corruption and organized crime in Nigeria, among other themes.{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/1292249/this-is-nigeria-by-falz-explains-africas-largest-economy-like-childish-gambino-on-america/|title=The hit "This is Nigeria" video tackles the country's worst problems one reference at a time|date=30 May 2018 |publisher=QZ|access-date=June 4, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/01/615805868/a-nigerian-rappers-take-on-donald-glover-s-this-is-america|title=Nigerian Rapper Goes Viral With His Take On 'This Is America'|website=NPR |date=June 2018 |access-date=June 4, 2018|last1=Unah |first1=Linus }}
• "This Is Sierra Leone" (June 2018){{YouTube|VChKR1RmtcA|"This Is Sierra Leone" - Xzu B (Childish Gambino - This Is America) Cover}}. Published June 7, 2018.
• "This Is Barbados" (June 2018){{YouTube|rTbfYj8ONuc|"Jabari Browne - This is Barbados (Official This is America "Bajan" Remix) by CROWD response}}. Published June 1, 2018.
• "This Is Malaysia" (June 2018){{YouTube|q6XwJfF_IKA|Chinese Gambino - "This is Malaysia" (Parody)}} Published 13 June 2018.
• "This Is Iraq" (January 2019) parodies the US-led invasion of Iraq.{{YouTube|EwBYKYmOraE|"This is Iraq"}}. Published by Middle East Eye, January 19, 2019.
• "This is The Philippines" (August 2018){{YouTube|ALnW-6PzjaI}} by Mikey Bustos
• "This Is Not America" (March 2022) by Residente ft. Ibeyi
• "This Is Australia" (January 2023), by Australian dance company Marrugeku, with vocals led by Noongar rapper Beni Bjah, features many local references, and criticises Australia's treatment of refugees, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and migrants.{{cite web | last=Cain | first=Sian | title=This Is Australia: First Nations dancers remake Childish Gambino's This Is America | website=The Guardian | date=17 January 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/17/this-is-australia-first-nations-dancers-remake-childish-gambinos-this-is-america | access-date=22 January 2023}}

"This Is America" debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the 31st song to do so in the chart's history. It debuted with 78,000 downloads sold and 65.3 million US streams in the first week. Its music video accounted for 68% of the song's streaming total. "This Is America" is also Gambino's first top 10; he previously reached number 12 in August 2017 with "Redbone". "This Is America" overtook Drake's "Nice for What" from the top position for two weeks. Gambino is also the second Emmy Award-winning actor to reach number one on the Hot 100, the first being Justin Timberlake, who topped the chart with "Can't Stop the Feeling!" in 2016.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8455823/childish-gambino-this-is-america-no-1-hot-100|title=Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' Is No. 1 On The Billboard Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|last=Trust|first=Gary|date=May 14, 2018|access-date=May 15, 2018}} It topped the Hot 100 for two weeks, and left the top ten after five weeks.

Credits are adapted from Tidal.{{Cite web|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/88432758|title=This Is America / Childish Gambino|website=Tidal|date=6 May 2018 |access-date=May 7, 2018}}

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• Slim Jxmmi – backing vocals
• BlocBoy JB – backing vocals
• Ludwig Göransson – production, composition, recording engineer
• Alex Tumay – recording engineer
• Riley Mackin – recording engineer
• Kesha "K.Lee" Lee – recording engineer
• Dru Castro – recording engineer
• Dacota G. Fresilli – recording engineer
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