Childish Gambino, Justin Timberlake, and Kanye West will be headlining Coachella next year, according to 'informed sources' close to Hits Daily Double. Gambino, Timberlake, and Ye are rumored to be closing out Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, respectively. The festival is set to take place in April of next year.
Gambino announced last week that he was rescheduling the remaining dates of his This Is America Tour for December after suffering a foot injury. Childish performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival the Friday before the announcement of the postponement was made, despite arriving to the venue in a wheelchair and leg brace, according to TMZ.
Following a two-month stint in Europe, Timberlake’s Man of the Woods Tour continued the North American leg after a short break. The tour will conclude on January 29, 2019 in Denver, Colorado.
Earlier today, Kim Kardashian revealed that Yandhi’s delay would be much longer than expected. Kanye’s upcoming album will not be released until Black Friday, which falls on November 23. West explained the reason behind the delay when he stopped by TMZ. 'I didn't finish it,' he said. 'A person from my management staff, our management staff, had suggested because the album is so good, it's my..I started incorporating sounds that you never heard before and pushing it, and having like, concepts that people don't, you know, talk about.' Kanye says he plans to go 'to Africa in two weeks to record.'
After dropping two albums in 2018, Kanye could be ready to take those new songs, and the rest of his catalog, on the road next year. Timberlake and Gambino will be done with their respective tours well before Coachella, supporting HDD’s report.
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If you somehow haven’t seen Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” video yet, you’ve certainly read about it. Culture publications have dedicated tens of thousands of words to the video, which serves as a scathing indictment of America’s racism and obsession with — and subsequent desensitization to — gun violence, all to the tune of ebullient choir singing juxtaposed with booming trap beats.
Writers on this site and others have discussed at length the symbolism in “This Is America” with more depth and authority than I ever could. But the song and video also deserve to be evaluated in the context of Childish Gambino’s entire discography. It’s a hard pivot away from the retro funk and soul of his last album, 2016’s “Awaken, My Love!”, but it’s also the most authentic musical evolution of his career.
Childish Gambino wasn’t always a critical darling. The musical alter ego of former 30 Rock writer and Community actor Donald Glover made for an easy punching bag for critics when he released his debut full-length album, Camp, in late 2011. Hip-hop purists doubted the authenticity of a successful actor and writer rapping about his struggles. Glover acknowledged his outsider status on songs like “All the Shine,” rapping, “Pitchfork only likes rappers who crazy or hood, man.”
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Glover was neither. Ram leela full movie watch online english subtitles. His music, a tender combination of rapping and singing over slick pop hooks, took cues from Kanye West and Drake. Rap labels wouldn’t touch him, so he signed with indie label Glassnote, which was better known for artists like Mumford & Sons and Two Door Cinema Club. And while Glover proved self-aware on Camp, his astute observations often landed alongside misogynistic boasts and gag-inducing punchlines, all delivered with a grating, nasally sneer. Glover was an underdog in the rap game, but he performed with an exaggerated chip on his shoulder that, coupled with his obvious creative versatility, made him sound precocious rather than genuine.
Still, despite its obvious flaws, Camp had a lovable charm and several indelible pop-rap gems, including “Fire Fly,” “Bonfire” and “Heartbeat.” Glover upped the ante on his sophomore album, 2013’s Because the Internet, a sprawling, richly produced smorgasbord of rap, R&B, funk and ambient soundscapes. He also released a short film called Clapping for the Wrong Reasons and 72-page screenplay alongside the album, successfully wedding his talents for writing, acting, directing and making music.
The screenplay that accompanied Because the Internet centered around a protagonist called The Boy, who lives in a mansion and whiles away his days tweeting at celebrities and posting on WorldStarHipHop. Glover embodied The Boy on Because the Internet’s promotional campaign and subsequent Deep Web Tour, using his new album as a multi-sensory commentary on the ubiquitousness of the internet. Childish Gambino had reached a new creative peak, but he did it by creating a universe separate from Donald Glover.
After toeing the pop-rap divide for years, Childish Gambino released the combined mixtape/EP set STN MTN / Kauai in 2014. The former took cues from modern-day southern hip-hop, while the latter explored Glover’s sweetest pop tendencies, as on the sensual slow jam “Sober.” They were fun, if insubstantial, entries in Gambino’s discography, but they proved to be a red herring in his musical trajectory, as evidenced by his next full-length, 2016’s “Awaken, My Love!”
You could crudely describe “Awaken, My Love!” as the album where people decided Childish Gambino was actually good. Glover abandoned his hip-hop roots in lieu of psychedelic funk and soul in the vein of Parliament-Funkadelic. (The album credits even reveal collaborations with George Clinton, Eddie Hazel, Fuzzy Haskins and Bootsy Collins of the legendary funk collective.) Bolstered by three excellent singles — the explosive “Me and Your Mama,” and sensuous R&B thumpers “Redbone” and “Terrified” — “Awaken, My Love!” earned several Grammy nominations, and “Redbone” took home the award for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
“Awaken, My Love!” was a masterstroke of musical virtuosity, but it was also, by default, a nostalgia record. It showcased Glover’s exponentially matured singing voice and ability to submerge himself in other genres of music, but it didn’t necessarily reflect Glover’s own views on the present or his take on modern musical trends. In the same way an actor can deliver a brilliant performance in a period piece without giving fans a glimpse into their own lives, Glover created a brilliant album that proved difficult to evaluate in the overall body of his creative work.
“This Is America” changes all that. Musically, it’s a vicious, urgent take on modern trap music, as Glover adopts the clipped, percussive flow of his contemporaries atop crackling 808s and rumbling bass. Director Hiro Murai — who has worked with Glover on his brilliant FX drama Atlanta — gives the video a grotesque surrealism, while Glover’s own dead-eyed delivery and possessed dancing make it nearly impossible for viewers to look away.
Critically and commercially, “This Is America” is already an unequivocal success. But it’s also the most that a Childish Gambino project has ever felt influenced by Glover’s other creative endeavors. He’s honed his unflinching social commentary and macabre sense of humor over two seasons of Atlanta, and he’s keenly observed the changes to the hip-hop landscape since he last dabbled in the genre himself. He’s funneled all these outside influences into one cohesive, exhilarating, altogether unforgettable audiovisual experience.
Glover recently signed to RCA Records and inked a new publishing deal with Kobalt Music that will cover his next album, which he claims will be his last as Childish Gambino. “I like endings, I think they’re important to progress,” he told the press after his Grammy win in January. If the rest of Childish Gambino’s next album reaches the heights of “This Is America,” then it makes sense why Glover would want to retire his alter ego. Perhaps they’ll finally become one and the same.
Childish Gambino stays winning. Following the universal viral success of his new song and video 'This Is America' which debuted during his appearance on Saturday Night Live last week (May 5), the sales for his previous albums have gone through the roof and reappeared on the Billboard 200 chart.
According to Billboard, by the end of last week, Gambino's catalog sold 11,000 copies and his songs were clicked more than 100 million times. His album Awaken! My Love moved to No. 45 on the Billboard 200 chart, Because the Internet jumped to No. 61 and Camp clocked in at No. 197. All in all, the entirety of his album sales went up 419 percent according to Nielsen Music's numbers.
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Since 'This Is America' was released, it has sparked a nationwide narrative about the Black experience of the nation and the debate surrounding gun control laws. Sims 4 play now no download. The song quickly shot to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it his first-ever No. 1 song, and has gone completely viral online, sparking a number of remixes from all different genres.
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Producer for the video Ibra Ake went on to discuss some of Gambino's ideas behind the video and song, which included a modern take of 'We Are the World' in using different rappers ad-libs on the song.
'You know, there's a bunch of rappers featured, but he just kind of wanted to make a 'We Are The World' song with rappers. And really not them rapping, just their ad-libs. Just kind of reducing the features to jazz,' Ake explained.
Unfortunately, Gambino has said that his next album will be his last. Young Thug confirmed that as the truth, and also said that he'll be featured on Gambino's final body of work.
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