This one of the cult classics in hip hop

Flight of the Navigator is my favorite Bino track of all time

fun fact he actually leaked the album early on purpose “because the internet” but near the end of the last song he cut it short mid sentence maybe like a min before the actual end (the biggest troll). i still vividly remember that moment lol

Flight of the navigator makes me cry every time I hear it.

Flight of the navigator one of my favorite songs of all-time. Timeless.

John the entire album came with a movie script, maybe worth reading along to it while listening to the album thats definitely part of the reason it sounds all over the place...

Just wait until he listens to Me and Your Mama lol he’s going to put on those shades when it drops

here’s a rundown on all the supplementary material for this album: -the screenplay + video clips -yaphet kotto and [no mouth emoji]: videos that announced the album -clapping for the wrong reasons: features the mansion where the album was created -3005 lyric video: basically lost media at this point -the various music videos: some of which weave a narrative where glover becomes infected by something and becomes a monster. this narrative is later continued in the “sober” music video -a couple of interviews from this period where glover assumes the persona of “the boy” from the screenplay accompanied by some amazing freestyles. people have included even more content from this period in the replies

...because the internet. Hands down my favorite album. Everything that went into to... the memes, the guerrilla marketing, Donald becoming the boy for about 2 years.... all amazing. Roscoes Wetsuit

Time Staps: The Library - Intro I.Crawl 0:59 II. Worldstar 2:07 Dial Up II. The Worst Guys ft Chance the Rapper 4:37 II. Shadows 6:13 III. Telegraph Ave. ("Oakland" by Lloyd) 8:13 IV. Sweatpants 9:38 3005 12:01 Playing Around Before the Party Starts I. The Party 13:39 II. No Exit 14:16 Death by Numbers 15:48 I. Flight of the Navigator 15:57 II. Zealots of Stockholm 17:45 III. Urn 19:00 I. Pink Toes ft Jhene Aiko 20:18 II. Earth: The Oldest Computer ( The Last Night) 21:50 III. Life: The Biggest Troll 22:45

Oakland, 3005 and Flight of the Navigator are some of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard

Zealots Of Stockholm is one of the greatest pieces of art ever created.

whoever requested this, you have my blessing.

One of the best albums of the decade to me, surely one of my favorites ever! This is incredible, Donald is a genius. Flight of the Navigator is so underrated

Came as soon as I got the message glad you’re listening to it 🙏🏿

Can't wait to see Flight of the Navigator reaction

in the top ten albums of the decade for me..... crazy that you get to experience this for the first time right now i’m jealous

Love this album, here's the track list and time stamps The Library (Intro) - NA I. Crawl - 0:58 II. Worldstar - 2:06 Dial Up - NA I. The Worst Guys (feat. Chance the Rapper) - 4:36 II. Shadows - 6:13 III. Telegraph Ave. ("Oakland" by Lloyd) - 8:12 IV. Sweatpants - 9:37 V. 3005 - 12:00 Playing Around Before the Party Starts - NA I. The Party - 13:37 II. No Exit - 14:12 Death By Numbers - 15:47 I. Flight of the Navigator - 15:54 II. Zealots of Stockholm (Free Information) - 17:44 III. Urn - 18:59 I. Pink Toes (feat. Jhene Aiko) - 20:17 II. Earth: The Oldest Computer (The Last Night) (feat. Azealia Banks) - 21:49 III. Life: The Biggest Troll (Andrew Auernheimer) - 22:44

100k muthafukaaaa!! Well deserved Jon.

second half of this album (from the party and on) is some of my fave songs of all time.flight of the navigator is just... amazing to zone out to.

one of my favorite albums of all time. ive heard it hundreds of times and it gets better. every. single. time.

I'm not sure if you've already done a reaction to this one, but man I can't wait until you hear his next album after this one, Awaken My Love. But man this one hits me different every time I listen to it. It's kind of a classic for me and the time period I listened to it. Awesome to see your reaction to it.

The first ever rap album i've ever possesed... That's a masterpiece and maybe my fav album of all time! WE NEED YOU TO COME BACK GAMBINO!

I remember running to best buy and buying the physical copy of this album after work. I bumped it on my way back home in heavy Chicago afternoon traffic. Instant classic, I love it

JON AT THE BACK POST GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLL HE DOESN'T MISS WITH THESE REACTIONSSSS

Life: the biggest troll will always be my favorite Childish Gambino song everyone abt it is perfect

great reaction to one of my favorite pop-rap albums of the 2010s! you should listen to some of the loosies he dropped around the same time as this album, too: centipede, yaphet kotto, what kind of love, secret track, etc. these songs really help contextualize his head space during this era outside of the album’s world, imo, especially yaphet kotto and centipede

Man after watching your reaction to Mac Millers “Swimming” album I’ve been coming back like crazy bro. Love your content Jon! And thank you for reacting to one of my favorite albums of all time!

I laughed Everytime u were thrown off balance lol

I wish I could go back in time to listen to this for the first time 🙌🏻

One of my favorite albums of all time ✨

I clicked like as soon as I saw that you were reacting to this.

One of my favorite albums ever, stunning, cohesive, and beautiful.

This is mad was listening to this album yesterday thinking will jon ever react to it

So excited to see you doing this one - it's one of my favorite albums. I've probably listened to this more than almost any other album, it's just SO good. I'd love to hear your thoughts again after a few listens!

SO GLAD YOU DID THIS REACTION. exactly why this is one of my favorite albums. i really listened to this album in the early stages of my teens. it blew me away musically. it was weird and like you said was challenging to listen to and a very psychological album. i think thats why i became a donald glover fan. i’ve always been someone who likes to digs deeper as far as media goes. and donald truly makes art and things that have layers.

Thank you! 280 likes and 0 dislikes. That's awesome, Jon. You are amazing

This has been my favorite album since my first year in college 2014! I absolutely loved this reaction! Much love 🥳🥳😎😎🧡💜❤️

Great reaction as always Jon and congrats on 100K we made it ! 250k here we come

literally reacted the same way to urn and OMG it still gets me everytime, the song literally soothes my soul like no other

Yessssir, I love childish, great vid, this album is overlooked af, hyped for the next reaction 🔥

I'm so fucking happy!!! Thanks for being such a good channel jon I appreciate you going back to these "modern classics" (this is a top 3 album of all time for me). It's awesome to see a person experience this for the first time.

John...JOHN! We deserve a second reaction to this album. Maybe on a livestream. Theres so much in this. I want to see how you take this album in after you consumed everything around it and really dissect everything once you comprehended the under layers of it.

Congrats on 100k you are the man. Love this album so glad to see this

100k congratulations! Well deserved man. Here’s to another 10 more!

Zealots of Stockholm is the ultimate running song

No cap one of my favorite albums of all time. It helped me process emotions in that early period of the internet in a way I cannot accurately describe and will be forever grateful for this man!

Finally, reacting to the GOAT

Your ability to articulate your feeling of the albums in your reactions allows me to damn near relive hearing it for the first time. Love it man keep it up.

*jon hears guitar “This is very Elliot Smith”

HEY CONGRATS ON 100K SUBS MAN!!! Been a big fan for a long time and it's awesome to see both you and your channel grow and evolve. Keep up the great work!!!!

Oh my god, what a pleasant suprise, I asked you and Simon to do a few songs from this ages ago

Congrats on 100k Jon. Plaque on its way!

I usually don't sit through full album reactions but I really enjoyed this! Appreciate your content!

I'm so glad when you got to flight of the navigator. Thats the exact reaction I had the first time I heard it all those years ago. I didn't really pay attention to gambino but after that song I was sold, I listened to the whole album and it became one of my favourite of all time.

just rewatched this. One of my favourite albums and your reaction released on my birthday

congratz on 100k! This is my favorite album!

great video! one of my favorite albums of all time

The Dissect podcast on Spotify dissected this album with the screenplay and Glovers life at the time that lead to this album and its incredible. I had a 9 hr drive today and almost listened to all of it and it honestly is life changing knowing all of thay

This is why this is the best reaction channel on KZfaq. I don't think it could be more tailored to my taste in music. Got so excited when this popped up on my timeline.

You are now one of my favourite reactors, quality stuff big ups!

Love this album and literally just got the vinyl + script for it last week, so I'm super excited to see what you think.

I'm so happy you did this one. This album means a lot to me and I used to listen to it religiously, like the whole thing every time. It's slightly too weird for a casual listen now but it'll still be one of my top albums

My favorite album of all time, glad to see your reaction of it.

This is tied with 808s & Heartbreak for my favorite album of all time, I'm really glad you're listening to it

Congrats on passing 100k subs Jon! Keep up the good work man

been waiting for this one! because the internet is dope, and the manuscript that comes along with it is an ok read aswell.

Hella fkin happy that you got 100k subs man! Congratulations and I’m loving the consistency Jon

Congrats on 100k my man this album is one of my all time faves Gambino truly a genius check out the mini movie he made about this album clapping for the wrong reasons a great and Trippy 20 min film

We need a Piñata and Bandana reaction 🔥🔥

This is the definitive album of my adolescence. It came out my junior year of high school, and I listened to my CD of it so much it is completely scratched up by now. It was the soundtrack to so many moments when I was becoming an adult. It helped me through random high school shit, carried me through my first experiments with psychedelics, and in general provided me so much joy in a time I was not at my happiest.

This my second favorite album of all time (Wolf by Tyler first) it came out on my birthday too. Changed my life and taste in music

You should definitely check out the interviews he did during this time I feel like they add to the album experience especially if your interested in his psyche because there are sometimes in the interview where he seems to embody the character from Because the Internet because he dressed in similar ways to the characters he played in his music videos at the time and to me just gave off a different vibe than the Donald Glover before this album (but he also could have been going through something during that time) or maybe he was trying to something like Kanye where he changes as a person every album since he took inspiration from him

Because the internet is my favorite album off all time and flight of the navigator also ranks really high on the album for me. I think it doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves.

I’m glad that you understood (some of) the deeper meaning behind 3005, that song is genius and complex lyrically

100k subs dude congrats!

congratz on 100k!

100k bro big respect 🙏🏽❤️

Please do the royalty mixtape! Its what he released just before this album and has some of his best rapping on it. And if you do more of his stuff also do the stn mtn/ Kauai mixtape/ep. Both of those projects are awesome.

The guy on guitar on the Worst Guys is the co-producer of the album, Ludwig Gorransson, Oscar-winning composer who did the scores for Black Panther, the Mandalorian, the Creed movies, Venom, Community (how they met), and the upcoming Chris Nolan movie, Tenet. He has co-produced all of Bino's music since his mixtape, Culdesac. Both those guys were ahead of their time with their music.

I been waiting on this one

my favorite album, thank you

flight of the navigator is extremely underrated is such a beautiful song

Jon tell me you've listened to the DISSECT podcast on this! Will make you love the album 3489087x more

You've gotta react to his first studio album camp, almost a decade old and still amazing

this one is huge, one of my all time favorites EASILY

Yo so I first heard this album in like 2014, I wasn't big into music back then i enjoyed it. Looking through the comments now seeing he had a lyric video with Abella Anderson, and the Clapping for the wrong reasons short film has just completely changed how I hear this album. I'm so confused how I've never heard about any of this 😂 it just shows how ahead of his time Gambino was with the rollout of this project and how great he really is

Dude you have to react to “Awaken, My Love!” by Gambino. His most experimental & best album in my opinion!

Don’t know if you’ve reacted/listened to them, but would love to hear you react to Tame Impala, especially Currents!

Congrats on 3k, Jon!!

ive never clicked so fast. this album is masterful. also, this is not music related.. but, if youve never seen Atlanta (starring Donald Glover) 100% go watch it immediately.

My favorite album. Glad you liked it!

16:06. would love to see some sort of video on Elliott

Life: The Biggest Troll is such a hard underatted track.

This is my fav artist I already know this is a classic reaction no I haven’t watched the vid yet

Saw this video & automatically hit play. This record is one of my favorites of the last decade. I went from thinking it was okay to not liking it to loving it as it aged with me. Weird to think I was a Junior in high school when I bought this on iTunes. Also, the screenplay is like a hyperbolic extension of Donald & where he was in his life. It starts off as a pseudo-sequel to "Camp", piggybacking off the monologue in "That Power, where he's the last kid on the bus after a humiliating situation with a girl. The script takes an aburdist turn when the kid is picked up by his dad (Played by Rick Ross, btw) in a limo & continues down the rabbithole from there. Again, the script's incredibly weird & absurd but the feelings of loneliness & depression portrayed by "The Boy" (The script's protagonist) mirror many of feelings & problems plaguing Donald's mind at that point in his career. Most of the interviews during this time paint that picture as well. Donald saw "The Boy" as a toxic phase in his life with problems he saw in others (a reason why the bars a huge whiff of deprecation, either towards others or himself) so he created a character, molded in his own self image, to create somewhat of a cautionary tale. Something that spoke to the automative social media age we were entering but also spoke on the issue of us becoming desensitized & detached to world around us (Big reason why he credits himself with his govt. name on the last track. Life has made him disassociate with himself to point where he doesn't really know who he is anymore.) I know I rambled a lot but this record really is something incredibly dense and interesting to dissect. It took me damn near 3 years before I even came to this conclusion & I feel like BTI is just gonna continue to change & re-contextualize in my mind as I grow older. I'm glad you enjoyed it as you did. PS - Here's a link to the script & the short film he made along with it, "Clapping for the Wrong Reasons". The Boy's house in the script is based around the house in the short & many of his friends are modeled after Donald's actual friends in the short. The Script: drive.google.com/file/d/0B7fe7ljMOHssZkJPaWNGSWp1ZjQ/view Clapping for the Wrong Reasons: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMWSgrF9yKuceXU.html

14:01 JOHN YOU'VE PLAYED HOTLINE MIAMI?! The Party definitely reminds me of the the Fans' party from the beginning of 2

If u haven’t heard it, you should react to Awaken my love. It’s definitely his best album. It’s completely different from this.

I've liked this album for a while but It's recently become one of my favorites of all time

Not sure I’ve you’ve seen but Dissect podcast has taken on this album this season. I’ve listen to this album at least 100 times start to finish and there’s still a lot of things I didn’t know that I’ve learned from the podcast.