That Power by Childish Gambino Song Info
Questlove plays the drums on “That Power”. Camp may have been self-produced by CG (along with long time musical collaborator Ludwig), but Roots boss man and late-night TV star Questlove played the drums on album closer “That Power”. The idea for the song actually came from a freestyle Childish spat when hanging with Questlove, and his verses on that song are also the favourite he’s ever written, in part because he had “to find the beat” as he hadn’t made it himself. The lyric he’s most proud of is… Childish has a lot of punchlines. His raps are laden with double entendres, dick jokes, and hyper-personal confessions, so it’s kinda surprising that the lyric he’s proudest of writing is: “Cause I ain’t Mumford / I ain’t tryin’ to have sons / All I wanted was / Some more like Ashton” He describes that one as “cute and fun” but also mentions what is, in my eyes, a more worthy candidate, and one goddamn clever double-entendre: “So it’s 400 blows to these Truffaut n****s”
