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After he hosted Saturday Night Live earlier this month, Donald Glover dropped an incendiary music video for This Is America by his rapping alter ego Childish Gambino. The general consensus behind the meaning of the song is it is a condemnation of gun violence and racism in America.

During an interview with the Sun to promote his role as Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story, Glover isn’t ready to talk about why he made the song or what it points to on his upcoming fourth studio LP. “I just wanted to make, you know, a good song,” he says.

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But with This Is America— in which he sings, “Yeah, this is America/ Guns in my area/ I got the strap/ I gotta carry ’em” — shaping up to be the song of the summer, we wanted to know which five albums Glover would want with him if he was stranded on a desert island.

His face, which bristled slightly at the mention of This is America, immediately brightens.

“This,” he says pausing for effect, “is very important.”