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This Is America is a song by American rapper Childish Gambino. Writt and produced by Gambino and Ludwig Göransson, with additional writing credits going to American rapper Young Thug,

It was released on May 6, 2018 at the same time that Gambino was hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live. The song features background vocals from Young Thug alongside fellow American rappers Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd, BlocBoy JB, Quavo of Migos, and Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage.

The lyrics and accompanying music video, reflecting the core of the Black Lives Matter movemt, confront issues of ongoing systemic racism, including prejudice, racial violce, the ghetto, and law forcemt in the United States, as well as the wider issues of mass shootings and gun violce in the United States. Originally, Gambino intded it to be a diss record towards fellow rapper Drake.

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This Is America became the 31st song to debut at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming both Gambino's first number one and top t single in the country. It has also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The song won in all four of its nominated categories at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Music Video. This made Gambino the first hip-hop artist to win Record of the Year and Song of the Year, and This Is America the first rap song to win these awards.

The song features a gospel-style choir and background contributions from various American rappers. Young Thug, Slim Jxmmi, BlocBoy JB, 21 Savage and Quavo each deliver an ad-lib.

Pitchfork's Steph Kearse described the song as a represtation of the tightrope of being black, with the song built on the sharp contrast betwe jolly, syncretic melodies and macing trap cadces.

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Bryan Rolli of Forbes calls it a vicious, urgt take on modern trap music, as Glover adopts the clipped, percussive flow of his contemporaries atop crackling 808s and rumbling bass.

Media outlets reported that a number of listers accused Gambino of plagiarism over This Is America, pointing out the similarities betwe the song and American Pharaoh by Jase Harley.

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 influced by his song. At the time, he did not have an issue with this.

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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,

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 happing in the world.

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The video contains many sces involving violce. It starts off with a shirtless Gambino dancing through a warehouse, interacting with a series of chaotic sces. 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.

Choreographed by Sherrie Silver, Gambino and his tourage 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 momts of violce. 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 be 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.

In both sces a child appears from off-scre holding a red cloth, on which Gambino gtly lays the weapon used, while the bodies are simply dragged away. A group of childr in school uniforms join Gambino in dancing, only to panic and scatter wh the music imitates the sound of gunfire and Gambino positions his arms as if firing a gun, after which he lights a joint. Other schoolchildr are se on a catwalk above, using their cell phones to record the chaos happing 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 be used as tools to broadcast police shooting, rioting against, or choking black people in this country. 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 d of the video, seated atop one of these vehicles. The video ds with Gambino in a darked portion of the warehouse, fearfully running towards the camera while being chased by several white people.

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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.

The music video received widespread critical acclaim. Spcer 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 rect memory.

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 differt sound worlds. Part of the brilliance of the prestation is that you go from this happy major mode of choral singing that we associate with South African choral singing, and th after the first gunshot it moves right into the trap sound.[32]

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Will Gompertz, arts editor of the BBC, asserted that This Is America was a powerful and poignant allegorical portrait of 21st Ctury 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.

The music video won the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video,

Glover hosted the May 5 episode of the 43rd season of Saturday Night Live, and performed two new songs as Childish Gambino on the same episode, 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 referces, introduced the song's performance.

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Several artists attracted atttion and millions of views for creating covers of the song and music video with altered lyrics and themes, retaining the song's instrumtal and the geral structure of its music video.

Bay Area rapper Lil B featured a remix of his own on his Options mixtape titled This Is the BasedGod in October 2018.

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 Jeps's Call Me Maybe, Earth, Wind & Fire's September and Banda Blanca's Sopa de Caracol were some of the most viewed.

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The song is interpolated into a sce in the film Guava Island (released 2019), which was directed by Hiro and features Glover and Rihanna.

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.

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