He just wants to party, party just for you (Picture: Childish Gambino)

Now this is how you defend the honour of your artist.

Childish Gambino’s co-manager Fam Udeorji has heard enough of the chatter over the sonic similarities between Gambino’s This Is America and Jase Harley’s 2016 track American Pharaoh, which blew up a fair section of the internet yesterday.

A quick recap: after American Pharaoh resurfaced online, some people on Twitter and Reddit quickly alleged that Gambino, aka Donald Glover, ‘borrowed’ elements the song from Harley – a claim that Harley didn’t dispute, as he wrote in an Instagram comment: ‘I always felt my song inspired it lol from the first time I heard it.’

He later addressed the furore further in the above Instagram post, writing: ‘I feel extremely humbled to be recognised and labeled as one or the original inspirations for one of the most important pieces of music and visual art of our time.’




And here are the two tracks in question – do you think they sound similar?

However, Fam Udeorji – who also goes by the name Fam Rothstein, and leads the creative agency Wolf + Rothstein that Glover is part of – has had enough of the noise.

Taking to Twitter, Fam defended Gambino by claiming that the origins of This Is America pre-date the release of Harley’s song – and that they have the Pro Tools files from 2015 to prove it, too.

‘The internet is a place of no consequences,’ Fam wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

‘I hate that Toronto Akademiks/every white blogger can say something as gospel and y’all take it.

‘This song is 3 yrs old, and we have Pro Tools files to prove it.’

Case closed, then?

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