Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. By Michael Saponara. Copied to clipboard. Click to copy. Artist Mentioned. Stream EP at midnight. Watch Now. After graduating college in , Glover took a break from rap when Tina Fey hired him as a writer for her now-famous 30 Rock. The show quickly became his main focus. According to Kangas, it was only when the Writers Guild Of America strike put 30 Rock on hiatus that Gambino suddenly found himself with time to produce more music.
Poindexter came out a year later and showed a marked improvement in his musicianship, particularly in the production department. Lyrically, the album was somewhat of an improvement from Sick Boi , but the subject matter faced some of the same criticisms. Why is he rapping about Tina Fey? That's not going to get you any street cred,'" Glover told the L. Looking back, the unpolished nature and under-the-radar release of these early albums makes sense; they were simply side projects for a successful television writer yearning to be more.
In the same L. Times interview, Gambino said that at the time, "Rapping was just something I liked. Part of the problem is, people want the persona of the rapper to be hungry, like, 'I gotta make it.
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