All of the Lights by Kanye West / Childish Gambino

[Wesley Akwuobi]

Submitted by Nicco: 

This song speaks for itself. It has big harmony as well as syncopation that we can feed off for a stellar arrangement. Where we can differentiate ourselves from other groups that perform this song is by adding the verse from CG's cover (Break).

Another one of Kanye's most popular songs, if we arranged and performed this by playing to the strengths of our group, not only would it sound amazing, people would love it.

The lyrics to CG's verse are, needless to say, explicit. We would need to modify it slightly for performances.

Kanye Version

Childish Version

[dre...@gmail.com]

I'm usually not one for rap, but I actually really like this song. It could be cool for a lot of the reasons you said, syncopations and lots of melodic parts going on. It would need to be arranged in a way that it isn't too long either, 5 minutes might be pushing it. We could probably shorten the intro. The rap would be super impressive for the audience and I love the idea of bringing Gambino's verse into it. His wordplay is always great. I would be so sad if we got rid of the heading West and blowing Kanye line though haha.

[Wesley Akwuobi]

I'm really feeling this. I think it would definitely diversify our repertoire, and this would do it in a cool way. This arrangement could be dope, I think we could combine elements of both versions to make it more dynamic, and I like the idea of having a rap solo along with someone singing the hook, we've never really done that before...though I am partial to the Childish version. I think they would just be more impressive to perform. We could alter the raps a little to fit 8bar (and the soloist obviously) Also perc on this would be fucking sick. I wanna do this shit. 

[nicc...@gmail.com]

I at least want the Kid Cudi part in there, as well as the rest of the hook. Kanye's verses are too average tbh. 

-Buckets

[nikol...@gmail.com]

I really feel these songs. We need more stuff in our repertoire like this...certain parts just get people riled up because it doesn't seem like it's something an audience would expect at an a cappella concert. This goes under the list of untapped skills and talents that our group has but doesn't capitalize on.