Questlove Goes Crazy Over Childish Gambino’s New Album

When Questlove writes a paragraph about an album, you know it must be something special. Like the time last month when he typed out his thoughts on A Tribe Called Quest’s final album We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service.

In the early hours of this morning, the Roots member took to Instagram once again, this time to tell the world how much he was freaking out over Childish Gambino‘s new album, Awaken, My Love!. He woke up D’Angelo at 4am to tell him about it, and even referenced Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On in his post.

Check it out below, and listen to the album HERE to see what all the fuss is about.

Dude I'm so fucked up right now. I can't even form the proper hyperbolic sentence to explain to D'angleo why I woke him up at 4am to listen to this. I'm like—when is the last time someone sucker punched me on this level…..I mean I knew #AroundTheWorldInADay was coming & it was a left turn—I'm about to blow the wigs off music historians… but I thought I was getting some fresh millennial 2016 hip hop shit and I got sucker punched. The last sucker punch in black music I remember in which NOONE had a clue what was coming was Sly's #TheresARiotGoinOn—read my IG about it (the flag)—I'm writing in real time cause —Jesus Christ the co-author of #WearwolfBarmitzvah just SONNED the shit outta me. In the best way possible. I was NOT expecting a trip to Detroit circa 1972 at United Sound Studios. I haven't written or been stunned by an album I wasn't expecting since that time I got an advance of #BackToBlack. The music is so lush man, I can see the kaleidoscope color mesh of the #Westbound logo. Dude I can't curb my enthusiasm. All I know is if #P4k try to play him again with these ratings there WILL be a riot goin on.

A photo posted by Questlove Gomez (@questlove) on Dec 2, 2016 at 12:52am PST

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