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    This Is the End: Childish Gambino Honors Late Father at Concert Finale 

    The time has come. Childish Gambino told us he’d be retiring following his fourth studio album. However, after an RCA deal was announced in late January 2018, folks started side-eyeing the claim, according to Billboard. Shortly after winning his first-ever Grammy (Best Traditional R&B Performance for hit single “Redbone”), he reconfirmed his music moniker’s retirement,…

  • Black Life, White Wife and the Art Caught in the Middle

    Over the weekend, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, dropped a video for a new song called “This Is America.” You are reading this, which means there’s a better than 90 percent chance that you’ve both seen the video and had a discussion about it already. Probably several. I assume, based on the imagery and visuals…

  • Donald Glover: Hip-Hop's Most Adept Chameleon 

    Donald Glover has more titles to his name than you’d likely find in your favorite local celebrity’s Twitter biography—comedian, actor, artist, writer, producer, director, rapper, singer, and songwriter. The 33-year-old Stone Mountain, Ga., native is able to transition between so many different creative roles thanks in no small part to his ability to make his…

  • 10 Thoughts About Childish Gambino’s “Awaken, My Love!” Album

    Last Friday, Donald Glover,  who is having the best.year.ever. under his nom de plume (the cool kids all have them, get you one), Childish Gambino, dropped a project titled, Awaken, My Love! There’s a better than fifty percent chance that you’re aware of this because I skimmed the social medias and it was littered with…