BBC Radio 1 has convinced all sorts of artists to cover tracks for its Live Lounge video series. Haim took on Miley Cyrus, Angel Haze did Beyoncé, and now Donald Glover has taken his turn. The former Community star known as Childish Gambino turned in a solid cover of P.M. Dawn’s 1992 hit “I’d Die Without You.”
Samantha seamlessly mixes by way of vinyl using a variety of genres, including 80s, 90s, Dance, Electronic, Hip Hop, Indie, R&B and Soul.This girl's got it all. And she's coming for the world next.
Her 2010 mixtape entitled “Cruel Summer” garnered significant attention, leading to clients such as Casio G-Shock, Complex Magazine, Steven Alan and Vans.
In 2011, Samantha began to hit the national and international circuit, playing along the East Coast, and as far as Singapore and Paris. She has had the opportunity to open for artists like Boyz II Men (Decca Records) and Dam Funk (Stonesthrow Records).
SOSUPERSAM is perhaps most familiarly known as the tour DJ for Childish Gambino (Glassnote Records). Her latest mixtape "This Way Up," was released on October25, 2011, shortly before Samantha joined Childish Gambino's "The Sign Up" tour.
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This is a quick and very insightful interview with an intelligent and talented young black man who wants nothing more than for "black" to be the least-defining of those traits. Definitely worth the read.L+T: Much of your music deals with people’s stereotypes, their assumptions and the labels they put on others. It’s like you’re trying to say that the average young black person is a lot more complicated, and complex than a lot of people would give him or her credit for. Right?DG: That’s exactly what it is. I think you touched upon it with labels. That’s exactly what it is. People want to label you because it’s easy to understand. It’s easy for someone to see a black person and assume they like all these things because then you don’t have to learn anything and you don’t have to find out who that person really is. It’s the same thing with me doing comedy and rapping. It’s easy to be like, “Oh OK, Donald Glover is a comedian and every time I see him he’s going to be funny.” That’s easy to do and I think we’re in a way more complex world. No one does one thing, ever. No one’s ever done one thing. People are different things at the same time. Sometimes I’ll get girls that’ll be like “your lyrics are misogynistic” and I’m like “yeah, they are.” Sometimes I’m misogynistic, [but] like who isn’t? Everybody’s racist sometimes. Everyone—black people, white people…
