Childish Gambino strongly delivers

Some may know of Donald Glover, former writer for NBC comedy "30 Rock" and star of the popular television show "Community" on NBC. Some may know him by his alias rapper, singer and songwriter, Childish Gambino. His rapping skills have recently landed a record deal with, an independent label, Glassnote Records, in which he dropped his most recent album, "CAMP" on November 15^th. Although this will be his debut album to many people he previously released three studio albums and many EPs, making this technically his fourth album.

"CAMP" is many things, fusing rap into just about every genre, showing more versatility than many of the rappers out. The album is mainly about Glover's story growing up and the difficulties he had reaching his success.

"Everyone hated me, I'm more Hip-Hop than you'll ever be," he raps on his track "Sunrise" showing how his status, place and relationship in Hip Hop.

One of Glover's issues that he raps about in his albums is the fact that he got bullied as a child. Even though he is an African American, others of the same race picked on him because he spoke properly or dressed in a certain way, an issue within the African-American community that many children growing up now are dealing with. He advocates against bullying and tells everyone to be who they want to be and do not let anyone try to change them.

There are no features on Childish Gambino's album, an extremely rare case for many new artists in the current music scene. The lead single for his album, "Bonfire" is a very unique sounding track, very reminiscent to the lead single of his latest EP "Freaks and Geeks."

On the track "You See Me," Gambino puts his rapping skills to the test in a lyrical minefield showing how amazing he truly is. One of the many things Glover enjoys talking about is Tumblr, the micro blogging site in which you can post texts, pictures, quotes, audio and more.

Although the album is mainly about his downfalls, it is very uplifting. In a world filled with barely any real instruments used in music anymore Donald Glover and his production team bring that essence back. Many celebrities attempt to crossover from acting to music or from music to acting and are very unsuccessful. Not only has Childish Gambino managed to crossover but he has put out one of the strongest and best debut albums in a very long time.