Car Lyric of the Week: Sweatpants by Childish Gambino

"Ain’t nobody sicker and my Fisker vroom vroom, ho

Ain’t nobody—(Fiskers don’t make noise when they start up, just so you know)"

In the second verse of his head-bumping track from his sophomore effort "Because the Internet," actor Donald Glover, who goes by the stage name of Childish Gambino, spits about Fisker, a failed start-up car company. The company, which produced the Karma, an electric luxury sedan designed by famed Henrik Fisker, went bankrupt in 2014 before it could release a wagon called the Surf and a smaller, cheaper sedan dubbed the Atlantic. The company was bought by a Chinese conglomerate and is attempting a comeback this year under the name Karma Automotive. Gambino claims that his Fisker is going "vroom vroom," before correcting himself by explaining that the electric engine would not make that noise. This parody of the classic bravado rap tradition of bragging about one's car is just one example of Gambino's quirky, unorthodox style. However, if he did want a Fisker that went "vroom vroom," he could purchase a VLF Destino, which is a heavily adapted Karma. VLF is a company started by former GM chairman Bob Lutz, and the Destino uses the V8 from the Corvette and rear wheel drive to propel itself to 60 mph in a claimed 3.9 seconds.