Screv6 - The Genius of becausetheinter.net [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

It is the middle of the night, and I sit staring at page 73 on becausetheinter.net, having scrolled down the site for the past two hours. I am impressed. Thoroughly

After spending three full days with the album, I was already impressed with because the internet. The album shocked me; not in the way that Yeezus shocked me and not in the way that INNANETAPE shocked me, but something like a mixture of the two. With instrumentation ranging from abrasive to serene, and vocals spanning the same spectrum, Gambino delivered a uniquely diverse album. But it isn’t diverse for experimentation’s sake - it is sincere and honest. Clearly an expression of Gambino’s emotions. I was already considering putting this album in my top five of 2013 when becausetheinter.net went live

I was a huge fan of “Clapping for the Wrong Reasons,” for reasons I’m not entirely sure of, but probably because of its honesty and realism, and the glimpse it afforded into what I assumed to be Gambino’s life (or at least a spin-off of it). So when becausetheinter.net identified this short film as its prelude, I was excited

The first stroke of genius in the screenplay (aside from the ingenious conception of the multi-media piece itself) is the very first line: You can’t live your life on a bus... The setting is a church parking lot, where a boy follows three girls off a bus. This picks up right where Camp left off, continuing the vulnerable story with the resolution that Gambino “got on the bus a boy and.... never got off the bus.” Throughout this whole screenplay which accompanies Gambino’s new album, the protagonist is referred to as “The Boy” (which is quite fitting: the lesson learned on the outro to Camp was to “cut out the middle man,” which Gambino certainly does with this screenplay by streaming the whole album). It is a story of maturation, where the maturation never actually happens - at least not as we expect it to

But it does happen, in a way, with The Boy building a strong relationship with a girl and accepting life and its nature after a long journey which seems to bear no rhyme or reason. It is a roller-coaster of a screenplay, but beautifully written and constructed. The screenplay matches the album in its ability to tap into a wide range of emotions

Earlier this year, I complained about the “over-saturation” of hip-hop, and commended Vic Mensa for transcending it. With the whole package of Because the Internet, Childish Gambino/ Donald Glover does even more than that: he transcends the whole entertainment paradigm. He did something no one has ever done before. He released a screenplay and an album (and I’m not even sure which accompanies which, they’re both so independent yet complementary) for mass consumption, while at the same time satirizing the very medium he uses to do so in a way that only one intimately familiar with the Internet could do. It’s beautiful

I had no expectations for this album. I hadn’t heard any singles or even releases from Gambino this year (aside from the "Bed Peace" remix, which I admittedly loved).My only exposure to Gambino this year had been “Clapping for the Wrong Reasons” and my brother telling me that the snippets for the album didn’t sound very good. Plus, I could not discern any direction Gambino was taking with his music, with how different Royalty was from Camp. It’s safe to say I was pleasantly surprised. I now consider Gambino among the foremost artists in hip-hop, alongside the likes of Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco. He is an artistic genius, and I love it