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Donald Glover has everybody talking.

The award-winning artist and entertainer, whose musical stage name is Childish Gambino, made his "Saturday Night Live" hosting debut this weekend. He also performed his new song, “This Is America” and later released an accompanying music video online.

And that's when social media exploded.

The video is packed with symbolism and satire. The song deals directly with race, gun violence, police brutality and the concept of freedom in a chaotic world.

Glover is at the center of it all, dancing shirtless in a massive warehouse. He transitions from scene to scene, committing acts as heinous as murder and as joyful as playfully dancing with a group of kids in school uniforms.

By Tuesday morning, the video had amassed more than 32 million views on YouTube.

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It opens with Glover dancing alone to lyrics like "We just wanna party," before he casually shoots a man who had just been playing the guitar.

The next lyrics are simply, "This is America" — a seemingly brutal nod to how normalized gun violence has become.

Next, a man enters the screen and takes Glover's gun away with a soft cloth. The gesture left some wondering if Glover was trying to show how guns are treated more delicately than people.

And that's just the opening minute.

Several users weighed in online on other themes of the video:

As I said on #ThisIsAmerica. He is clearly rapping (and showing) how self-destructive behavior of Black Americans is not only tolerated/celebrated, but carefully curated. It’s how this country was designed for us.



It’s when he steps away (with a blunt) that he’s hunted... — Aaron T. Starks (@StarkyLuv73) May 7, 2018

No one caught the fact that at 2:13, a man jumps to his death. It shows how we don’t care about suicide in America, yet are all in when it’s a dance/trend. This Is America. #thisisamerica @donaldglover pic.twitter.com/OXhFMUjX6V — iris (@siriouslyyy) May 7, 2018

Childish Gambino had me shook once I noticed this stance in his “this is America” video and the lyrics #BlackTwitter. #ThisIsAmerica pic.twitter.com/eeYfBpNzlk — Mocha_Doll (@NaiyaDuckett) May 7, 2018

In another part of the video, an all-black choir is singing and dancing when Glover quietly enters the "room." He dances alongside them and then kills them with an assault weapon. The brutal scene was an apparent reference to the 2015 Charleston church shooting, in which nine black parishioners were shot and killed during Bible study at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

This scene reenacts Charleston shooting. Black people praising Lord killed for no reason. Look at the background, you see people running towards the area and "rioting" for change and cops running after them, just b/c it's their "job"



#ThisIsAmerica pic.twitter.com/sX0KqozbPU — Kanisha J (@KaniJJackson) May 7, 2018

There's so much happening in the video, some commented it was hard to even notice some of the awful things occurring in the background.

Others thought this may have been by design.

Me when I realized that gambino's dance moves distracted me from all the craziness happening in the background and that's exactly the point he's trying to make... #ThisIsAmerica pic.twitter.com/ZlMxE2VwZV — Claudia Gonzales (@claudiag0292) May 6, 2018

Summed up: The American fabric is selling distractions and superficial livelihoods, while in reality avoiding gross systematic issues that we ignore because it’s easier to live a lie than to confront the truth. #ThisIsAmerica Childish Gambino Donald Glover #PoliticsNation pic.twitter.com/rPuu5Ycsc4 — Tony (@ImKnotTheOne) May 6, 2018

Donald Glover in the music video for "This is America." Donald Glover/YouTube

Some observers questioned if Glover's "killing" scenes and other acts of violence were necessary.

I''m unsettled by the narrative presented in of Donald Glover's/Childish Gamino's "This is America." I'm not sure what is liberatory about reenacting the shootings of black people. I really wonder if, at this point, shooting black people is still shocking to anyone. — Blair LM Kelley (@profblmkelley) May 7, 2018

Erasing white people from white violence is not my kind of art but y’all go on ahead. — Mia McKenzie (@miamckenzie) May 6, 2018

Kanye West, who Glover poked fun of during a "SNL" sketch, shared "This is America" to his more than 28 million Twitter followers.

Singer Erykah Badu called Glover a "genius," while Bruno Mars and Adele offered praise on their social media accounts.

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