“Bando Stone & The New World” will mark the end of Glover’s rap career as Childish Gambino, throughout which he released five albums.
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Donald Glover’s fifth and final album under his stage name, Childish Gambino, titled “Bando Stone & the New World,” releases at midnight and will mark the end of the rapper persona that launched Glover’s music career and won him five Grammy Awards.Key Facts
“Bando Stone & The New World” is Glover’s first album of all-new material since his 2020 album, “3.15.20,” which was reissued under the title “Atavista” in May.
The new album features collaborations with singers including Chlöe, Amaarae, Jorja Smith and Fousheé, as well as rappers Yeat and Flo Milli, according to the tracklist Glover posted on Instagram on Wednesday night.
The album does not appear to contain collaborations Glover had previously teased with Kanye West and Kid Cudi (which some fans lamented in Glover’s Instagram comments).
The album serves as the soundtrack to an upcoming film of the same name that Glover wrote and directed—he posted the trailer on his YouTube account two weeks ago.
For the film and album, Glover assumes the persona of Bando Stone, a famous musician in a post-apocalyptic world in which there are no people, aside from a woman and her child that he meets, as they are threatened by violent creatures.
Glover has already released two songs from the album: “Lithonia,” which released July 2, and “In the Night,” which released Tuesday. Why Is Glover Retiring His Childish Gambino Stage Name?
Glover had long suggested that he would eventually retire the Childish Gambino name, as early as in 2017, when he said during his Governor’s Ball music festival performance that the next Childish Gambino album would be the last.
