I respect Donald Glover a lot. I've long wanted someone as young, creative, innovative, and multi-talented as him to emerge from my own community so I can have someone like him to stan.
To be clear, I haven't listened to 3.15.20 yet, but his hitting average just isn't there, mostly when it comes to music. I've listened to everything from Camp onwards, and he just can't nail down a musical identity (or even identities) or come with a consistent project (if anything, Camp was the most consistent). I know This Is America was this whole cultural phenomena that convinced the world he's a genius, but the song was garbage. Still can't believe anyone listened to that more than once in absence of the video.
I used to hate on the dude for being a soulless Wayne/Kanye amalgamation because.. he was.. but he was always doing some really interesting things in and out of music amongst all of his mediocre efforts (Atlanta, his AOTL Remix, This Is America and various Because The Internet videos) and I felt with Awaken, My Love! he actually started progressing towards his own sort of style. He's just not there yet. He's had potential for the better part of the decade, but I don't think he's quite there yet. Which is okay, since I think his music is basically his means of figuring his own weird ass out, and that's half of why younger fans identify with it in the first place.
