This is America is one of the most popular songs released this year, speaking about injustices in America among other topics. At the time of writing this article, it had almost 300 million views on YouTube.
It is, therefore, a shock to learn that Childish Gambino may have stolen the song from someone called Harley Jase. Jase released a song called American Pharoah in 2016 off the album Free Pxrn: The Memoir of an American Heathen, which currently has just 12,000 Spotify plays.
On Instagram, Jase is pretty calm about the entire thing saying he just wants a shoutout.
Check out his replies below
We also think they’re quite similar but take a listen and share your thoughts with us in the comments section.
for real?
Everybody be stealing everybody’s songs these days. ISSOKAY