Best New Bands » lupe fiasco https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Album Review: Childish Gambino – Camp https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-childish-gambino-camp/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-childish-gambino-camp/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:15:07 +0000 I resisted listening to this album for a long time, because yay another actor made a hip-hop album. We all remember that Jamie Foxx fiasco from a few years ago and who could forget William Shatner’s disastrous foray into making awful, if not comical, music for the masses. Then I started hearing rumblings. My friend

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