Childish Gambino Collaborator Denies “This Is America” Plagiarism Allegations

Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino, March 2018 (John Shearer/Getty Images)
Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino, March 2018 (John Shearer/Getty Images)

One of Donald Glover’s creative partners has denied claims that Glover “stole” the music for his No. 1 singleThis Is America” from a March 2016 song called “American Pharaoh” by New York rapper Jase Harley. Fam Rothstein is a co-principal of the creative agency Wolf + Rothstein (which is comprised of himself, Donald Glover, and Wolf Taylor), and he also co-produced the music video for “This Is America.”

This morning, in response to a user who claimed that Glover “stole the song,” Rothstein tweeted: “The internet is a place of no consequences. I hate that Toronto Akademiks/every white blogger can say…

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