Childish Gambino Teases New Music Premiere Sunday Night
Childish Gambino announced plans to release two new albums while debuting some unreleased material on his GILGA Radio livestream. We discuss it here!
Donald Glover poses on the red carpet at the 30th Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
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By: Joshua Martin
Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino kept his promise following a tweet on Sunday, where he promised new music in a stream on Instagram Live. The 40 year old shared with fans that his highly anticipated project will be two albums not just one.
“We’re releasing Atavista, but after that, there’s the final Childish Gambino album, a soundtrack for the fans.”
He later announced the final Gambino record would be titled Bando Stone & The New World, which will double as the soundtrack for his upcoming film by the same name. A radio-style ad for the project indicated that the soundtrack is coming this summer via RCA.
Before the ‘Atlanta’ star hosted the GILGA Radio stream on IG, a fan took to X/Twitter to ask if he’d be debuting new music.
GILGA Radio tonight @ 11pm pst.
— donald (@donaldglover) April 14, 2024
live streamed on instagram @ @donaldglover
Earlier this year, Glover teased that he would be releasing a new version of his 2020 project 3.15.20, now titled Atavista. He also previewed new music during the stream, a previously leaked song titled “Human Sacrifice” and a few updated tracks from 3.15.20. A completed version of the song “Little Foot Big Foot” (formerly known as “35.31”) featuring Atlanta rapper Young Nudy was also played and will soon get a music video.
“My fans are great and have been so patient and are starving—this album is for you guys.”
The book is set to be released this fall on October 8th. E-book and audiobook versions will be available upon release. Sean’s next album is also set to drop later this year and it’ll be his first since 2020’s Detroit 2.
2024 has been an eventful year for ‘Sean Don’. His current single “Precision” has eclipsed over 3 million Spotify streams and he also recently performed on one of the most recognizable stages in music today, teaming up with NPR for a special Tiny Desk performance.
Big Sean: Tiny Desk Concert
Glover’s latest music came in 2023 in the form of features. Teaming up with Summer Walker on her track “New Type” and DJ Quik and Jason Martin’s “MORE DOLLARS, MORE SENSE 1994.” He also contributed to several songs on the 2022 EP Swarm. Recently, he popped up as a surprise guest during Tyler The Creator’s Coachella set, where the duo performed “Running Out of Time” from Tyler’s 2019 album, Igor.
Glover has also been quite busy in front of the camera as well, most recently appearing in the Amazon Prime series, Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
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21 Savage Announces New Album 'American Dream' and Biopic Set To Release
21 Savage is set to release his third solo album, American Dream, and a biopic starring Donald Glover and Caleb McLaughlin. We discuss it here!
21 Savage attends the Red Carpet at the 2018 Billboards Music Awards at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada USA on May 20th 2018
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By: Omar Cook
It’s been since 2018 that Atlanta rapper, 21 Savage, released his last solo LP, I Am > I Was. For 21 Savage fans…the wait is over. Today, he announced the imminent release of his latest album, "American Dream," scheduled to drop this Friday, January 12. 21 Savage is looking to mirror the success of his last solo project which hit number one on the Billboard 200 chart and also was RIAA-certified Platinum in 2020.
The year is just beginning and 21 Savage is coming out with a bang. On Monday, 21 Savage revealed plans for a biographical movie titled American Dream: The 21 Savage Story, featuring Donald Glover and Caleb McLaughlin. This is pretty dope as a young artist to tell his story to the world.
american dream: the 21 savage story | Official Trailer
21 Savage’s last two projects were joint projects, including SAVAGE MODE II with Metro Boomin, and Her Loss with Drake which is currently in the running for Best Rap album at the 2024 Grammys. With a movie and a new solo album on the way, you can expect a heavy dose of success for 21 Savage this year and some hot new music on the way.
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Childish Gambino Drops New Music Video to His Single "This is America"
Childish Gambino delivers a politically motivated music video with his song "This is America".
By: Abina George
The music industry hasn’t heard from Donald Glover since his 2016 release of “Awaken, My Love!” Childish Gambino, as he is known within the music world, has remained quiet without a hint of new music. Yet, his time spent during this hiatus was dedicated to the cultivation of the single “This is America.”
Whilst the country decries scenes depicted in much of hip-hop as obsessed with the sexualization of women and the promotion of extreme party life, Glover has delivered a scathing critique of society in a mesmerizing video.
The music video opens with a man in white pants and light beige shirt walking towards a chair centered in the middle of an empty warehouse. As he picks up the guitar laying in the chair and takes a seat, the camera pans slightly to the background where Childish Gambino stands facing away from his audience. “We just want to party. Party just for you.”
He begins to dance. Glover’s moves are controlled and calculated. He dances with complete focus on his movements and glides over to the guitarist, now devoid of guitar and head covered like a hostage, pulls a pistol from the back of his trousers, poses, aims, and shoots the seated man.
His actions move from beautiful to grotesque while his shooting pose is highly reminiscent of the “Jim Crow” figure of earlier American advertisements. Childish Gambino’s dancing is only an act to sate viewers and distract from the atrocities the occur. A group of adolescent dancers then moves behind him, joining Glover in the execution of dances. While the group entertains with their coordinated routine, chaos erupts in the background.
The scene cuts to a shot of a choir praising. Childish Gambino enters through a door dancing his way in front of the choir. He is tossed a gun from off camera and guns down the singers, echoing the violent church massacres that have plagued the United States in recent years and placing the gruesome capability of automatic weapons on display all at once. He bounces away as weapon wielding protesters and a police car blur behind him.
Childish Gambino - “This is America” Music Video
The guns in the video are always carefully and respectfully handled after each shooting. They are laid gently on red cloth and carried safely away. These tools treated with more care than any of the people. Glover gives such care and effort to his movements, a testament to how he tries to please the audience among all the homicide and violence behind them. He sings “I’m so pretty” shortly after someone falls presumably to their death in the background.
Children mingle on the rafters above all the turmoil, observing the destruction and videotaping all the transgressions of their elders prepared to follow the path of those that came before them.
As Gambino and the accompanying school children perform the latest dance crazes, the white horse of the apocalypse gallops in the distance behind them provoking conclusions of the antichrist descending upon the nation and producing war. The scene ends with the children running and Glover resting in a position resembling firing a handgun. He pulls out a joint, self-medicating from the horrors he is experiencing and continues as society expects of him.
Donald Glover climbs onto a car with a hooded figure in the foreground and begins to dance again. “Get your money Black man.” he sings, and the camera pans out, insinuating that we are still expected to perform despite the horrors and abuse that engulf society. Keep performing and get your money. Ignore the atrocities that unfold before you.
The video concludes with Donald Glover and other African Americans running from a wrathful stampede. His eyes are engorged as he exerts himself for fear of his life. The fear and terror madden him, and he races for his life. This is America.