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Childish Gambino Seemingly Disses Drake On New Song “Yoshinoya”

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Childish Gambino raps on his new album, Bando Stone and the New World. Not as much as you’d think, though. The artist intersperses bars with sonic experiments and electronic flourishes. “Yoshinoya” is a rare exception to this. The track sees Childish Gambino drop aggressive rhymes over a trunk-rattling instrumental from producer Triangle Park. He takes aim at some undisclosed target in his verses, but fans have been quick to point out clues that suggest the target is in plain sight. The theory is that the rapper is the latest to attack Drizzy Drake.

The biggest piece of evidence to suggest that Childish Gambino is targeting Drake is in the first verse. “I put your boy in the seat. You got your biz’ in the streets,” he raps. “I wash my hands when I eat. I never hand her the key.” The use of the moniker the “Boy,” evokes the nickname that Drake has used over the last decade. Genius even posits Gambino’s wording as a means of schooling the 6 God, hence putting him in a seat (the annotation is, notably, unreviewed). The next few lines have also been theorized to be about Drake. “I don’t know no one BD,” he raps. “But they dependent on me.” “BD” is baby daddy, which technically applies to the Toronto rapper. Drake also scored a hit single in 2023 with “Rich Baby Daddy.”

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Childish Gambino And Drake Have Had Issues In The Past

The rest of the song is peppered with slights and comments that could easily apply to Drake. Childish Gambino mentions finding a house “on the app,” which evokes the iconic imagery of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss. The rapper also suggests that his unnamed target has untrustworthy people in his circle. “They plottin’ hard when you slatt,” he spits. “Thеy got a gun in your back. This who you trust when you sleepin’ at night.” There’s even an “AK” bar. “AK not silent like knife,” Childish Gambino raps towards the back end of the verse. The reference applies to a loud firearm, of course, but could just as well apply to DJ Akademiks and the fact that he serves as Drizzy’s mouthpiece.

Childish Gambino and Drake have not had the closest relationship over the years. The latter infamously criticized Gambino’s “This Is America” during a 2018 concert in Chicago. He posted a user comment that read: “The overrated and over awarded hit song ‘This Is America’ was originally a Drake diss record.” It’s also worth noting that fans have compared Childish Gambino’s sound on the new album to Drake. Many social media users have compared Bando Stone and the New World to the 6 God’s recent releases, and there’s definitely similarities. We won’t know if “Yoshinoya” is a diss unless Gambino confirms it, but we know there isn’t love lost between him and Drake.

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Childish Gambino Heaps Praise On Yeat After Their Bold New Collab

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Childish Gambino is an experimental artist. He’s found incredible mainstream success, but at the end of the day, he likes to tinker with established formulas. It’s what makes him such a consistently engaging artist. Gambino is also smart about who he aligns himself with in the studio. He only works with people who generative creative sparks, as evidenced by the eclectic feature list on his new album. The most unexpected feature on Bando Stone and the New World has to be rage phenom Yeat. That said, the rapper claimed that Yeat was the one who impressed him the most.

Childish Gambino sat down with Apple 1 host Zane Lowe to discuss the new album. He touched on the album’s themes and aesthetic in detail. It was the topic of Yeat, however, that drew the most praise from the rapper. Childish Gambino and Yeat collaborate on the song “Cruisin,” which is wild blend of tempos and sounds. Lowe asked about the process behind the song, and Gambino heaped praise on his creative partner. “He’s a workaholic, he’ll make something so fast,” the rapper stated. “I’m just super impressed with him, and he loves music. He’s the man.”

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Childish Gambino Was Impressed By Yeat’s Work Ethic

Childish Gambino elaborated on the making of “Cruisin,” and revealed that the collab came together in Paris. He recalled being shocked by how adaptable Yeat was to different working conditions. “We were in Paris working together,” he explained. “I’m just surprised by how resourceful he is.” Gambino was wowed by the fact that Yeat didn’t have to resort to plug ins or additional software to get the sound he wanted. “I was like ‘What are you using?’ and he’s using all the stuff that comes with the stuff,” the rapper stated. “He’s not getting like ‘Oh I need this plug in.’”

Childish Gambino is not the only one who has taken notice of Yeat’s talent. While him and Zane Lowe laughed about Yeat’s cult status among fans, the artist is slowly building up his profile. In addition to being on Bando Stone and the New World, Yeat has linked up with some of the biggest artists in the world. He scored a hit with the Drake collab “IDGAF” in 2023. He has also landed collabs with Gunna, Young Thug and Don Toliver. All signs point to him leading the new wave.

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Did Childish Gambino Diss Joe Budden On ‘Bando Stone And The New World?’

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The end is here: Today (July 19), Donald Glover released Bando Stone And The New World, which he says will be his final album as Childish Gambino. He didn’t go out quietly, either, as it looks like he might have cultivated some beef on the project.

Did Childish Gambino Diss Joe Budden On Bando Stone And The New World?

Since the album’s release, some have speculated that Glover references Budden on “Survive.” On the track, he says, “They in the minor leagues, but I’m pro-black / I bet he hate his mom, how you know that? / You got a podcast ’cause you can’t rap / You on some Fresh And Fit sh*t, talking body counts / I count a body every time I’m on tracks.”

Budden, of course, is a retired rapper who now hosts The Joe Budden Podcast. As HipHopDX notes, Fresh And Fit is a podcast whose hosts have had run-ins with Budden, while Budden his talked about “body counts,” a term meaning the number of sexual partners a person has had, on his show.

It’s been a busy 24 hours for Budden, as Cardi B went off on him just yesterday.

Check out some reactions to Gambino’s “Survive” below.

Childish Gambino Releases Sixth Studio Album ‘Bando Stone and The New World’

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Childish Gambino Releases Sixth Studio Album ‘Bando Stone and The New World’

Childish Gambino has released his highly anticipated sixth studio album, Bando Stone and The New World, via RCA Records. The 17-track LP showcases Gambino’s versatility and creative evolution, blending various genres and styles.

The album opens with “Hearts Are Meant To Fly,” a roaring electro-hip-hop cut co-penned with Ammaarae. This glitchy and twisty track sets the tone before transitioning into the moody psych-funk single “Lithonia,” written by Gambino himself. “Lithonia” evolves into a full-on operatic rock anthem, demonstrating Gambino’s range.

The summer-ready “Survive” features Gambino’s melodic vocals, flowing seamlessly into the ethereal “Steps Beach,” a guitar-laden track featuring Grammy-winning artists Steve Lacy and Fousheé. The duo returns on the alt-punk pop track “Running Around,” showcasing their collaborative synergy.

Gambino’s lyrical prowess shines in “Talk My Shit,” featuring Flo Milli, where his sharp bars and dynamic delivery take center stage. The album’s diversity continues with “Dadvocate,” highlighting Gambino’s reverence for blues, folk, and country.

Tracks like “Got To Be” and “Real Love” blend electro-pop, dance, and rap, while “Yoshinoya” boasts bold, unrelenting bars. The collaboration with Yeat on “Cruisin’” adds another layer of innovation, wrapping up with the Max Martin-produced anthem “A Place Where Love Goes,” which melds the album’s sonic diversity into a cohesive finale.

Bando Stone and The New World is abundant in sounds, exhibiting the plurality of Childish Gambino’s artistry. This latest project reaffirms his status as a boundary-pushing artist, offering fans a multifaceted musical experience.

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Donald Glover Says Being Known as Childish Gambino is No Longer ‘Fulfilling’

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Donald Glover’s days as Childish Gambino are over. Speaking with the New York Times, Glover reveals why he is dropping his rap name.

“It really was just like, ‘Oh, it’s done.’ It’s not fulfilling,” Glover said. “And I just felt like I didn’t need to build in this way anymore.”

That makes his upcoming album the ending of the Gambino era.

Donald Glover hosted an exclusive listening party for “Bando Stone & the New World,” ahead of the July 19 release at New York’s cozy outdoor venue, Little Island. 

Manhattan’s Little Island was packed for the event, tickets sold out within minutes despite the humid 90-degree Saturday night.

Onto the show … Glover performed 15 tracks from “Bando Stone & the New World” in a non-sequential order, showcasing styles from the hard rap of “Camp” and “Because the Internet” to the experimental, pitched-up vocals of “Awaken, My Love.”

Get this, two tracks that had the audience nodding along to the powerful bass were “Talk My Shit” and “Yoshinoya.” The former features Flo Milli and includes a pitched-up verse that Glover described as his favorite on the album. After a brief technical issue with the bass speakers, Glover returned to “melt faces off” with “Yoshinoya,” spitting verses with intensity and dispelling any notion that he’s merely an actor who raps.

Move over North West, as one standout track, “Can You Feel Me?”, featured touching lyrics from Glover’s young son, Legend. The duo sings together over a chorus reciting the ABCs, with Glover reflecting on his father’s death and themes of family and fatherhood.

When it comes to other notable collaborations on “Bando Stone” include Steve Lacy and Fousheé on the sentimental, stripped-down track “Steps Beach.” Both artists sat in the front row at Little Island, with Lacy playing gentle guitar riffs as Glover sang a soothing melody. Fousheé returned for “Runnin’ Around,” a lively party anthem. Though not present at the listening party, Yeat features on “Cruisin’,” a dramatic track from 2014 that Glover recently completed, and Jorja Smith and Amaarae contribute to the groovy “In the Night.”

Sounds like it was a Donald Glover type of night.

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Childish Gambino Is Eclectic As Ever On “Bando Stone And The New World”

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Childish Gambino marches to the beat of his own drum. He’s never made the same album twice, whether it be the pop-rap opus Because the Internet or the funky Awaken, My Love. The sounds are different, and the themes wildly varied. This pattern is upheld with the latest (and possibly last) Gambino album. Bando Stone and the New World is a wildly eclectic collection of music, blending and melding genres at every turn. It may be Childish Gambino’s most ambitious album to date. However, it may take a few listens to fully click with fans.

The off-kilter approach is evident from the opening track. “H3@rt$ W3re M3@nt T0 F7¥” is a glitchy, bass-heavy banger with unhinged vocals from Gambino and Amaarae. It doesn’t follow a conventional song structure in the slightest, but it is compelling. The rest of the album is easier to listen to, though not significantly. “Steps Beach” is a gorgeous acoustic number that evokes Childish Gambino’s tropical attire on the album cover. A similar mood is evoked on “Real Love,” which could have been a hit for an indie pop band circa 2012. These palatable moments are broken up, however, by musical left turns. “Happy Survival” is a lush instrumental piece with a repeating mantra. “Got to Be,” meanwhile, is a techo nightmare with Uncle Luke samples. Gambino, regardless of where things go, is having fun challenging his fans.

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Listen To Bando Stone And The New World By Childish Gambino

  1. H3@rt$ W3re M3@nt T0 F7¥ (featuring Amaarae)
  2. Lithonia
  3. Survive (featuring Chloe)
  4. Steps Beach
  5. Talk My Sh*t (featuring Amaarae & Flo Milli)
  6. Got to Be
  7. Real Love
  8. In the Night (featuring Amaarae & Jorja Smith)
  9. Yoshinoya
  10. Can You Feel Me
  11. No Excuses
  12. Cruisin (featuring Yeat)
  13. We Are God
  14. Running Around (featuring Foushee)
  15. Dadvocate
  16. Bad One
  17. Happy Survival (featuring Khruangbin)
  18. A Place Where Love Goes

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Donald Glover Might Have Survived ‘Hot Ones’ Due To An Unintended Secret Weapon From Joel McHale

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Donald Glover is gearing up for the release of his “final” Childish Gambino album and visited Hot Ones for the occasion. He fared better than, say, Ice Spice did, and also compared his decision to retire the Childish Gambino name to The Office. And after more than 20 minutes of hot-sauce torture, Glover (who had joked that he would die during this episode) revealed a tidbit that might explained why he handled these wing-shenanigans pretty well.

As it turns out, Glover has eaten plenty of hot sauce over the course of his career, and that would be due to Community star Joel McHale’s dastardly influence. Yes, for real:

“[In] Community, first season, I really looked up to Joel, and like Joel was literally only eating espressos and eggs. That was it because he wanted to get in shape, he had a shirt-off scene, and literally, he was like, ‘Hot sauce will help you, it’s the only flavor you can really [have],’ so I started with hot sauce, and then we got into a thing together. And then I realized, ‘Oh yeah, that must have boosted my tolerance’ because I remember putting tons of hot sauce on eggs.”

See, McHale recently claimed the blame for the Community movie’s delay, and Donald paid him back with a hot sauce story. There, now they are even, and you can here that story after the 21:30 mark below:

Donald Glover Compares Retiring The Childish Gambino Name To ‘The Office’

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Today is, in a way, Donald Glover‘s last day as Childish Gambino. Bando Stone & The New World, which comes out on Friday, July 19, is being billed as Glover’s final album with the Wu-Tang Clan name generator-assisted moniker he’s had since the late 2000s. While appearing on Hot Ones, the Emmy-nominated Mr. And Mrs. Smith star discussed his decision to retire the name.

“I always knew like Childish Gambino was like a character, on some level I wanted it to end. I feel like the Childish Gambino character is almost like the boss from The Office,” he said, referring to Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell. “It’s like yeah, that worked 10 years ago. It’s like oh, it’s a little sad but it’s also like wow, the cycle kind of continues, which is great I think.”

It’s an understandable decision from Glover. Would you want to be associated with something you did in 2008? Probably not.

Later in the Hot Ones interview, Glover talked about the unlikely legacy of the lemon pepper wet wings on Atlanta. “When we did Atlanta and we had the joke about the lemon pepper wet… it was literally just like a silly joke,” he said. “I didn’t know culturally that it would take on that kind of life or that people even cared that much, but that was the whole Atlanta experience to be honest, like to make that. It was a really good lesson in not worrying about the destination and just enjoying the journey really.”

Bando Stone & The New World is out 7/19 via RCA Records. Find more information here.

Why Is Donald Glover Retiring The Childish Gambino Name?

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Tomorrow (July 19), Donald Glover is releasing Bando Stone And The New World, which is being billed as the final album by his long-running musical identity, Childish Gambino. We’ve known this for months, but it still begs the question:

Why Is Donald Glover Retiring The Childish Gambino Name?

In a new New York Times interview (as NME notes), Glover spoke about realizing his days as Gambino were coming to an end while he was recording, saying, “It really was just like, ‘Oh, it’s done.’ It’s not fulfilling. And I just felt like I didn’t need to build in this way anymore.”

Glover also cited the “continued decline of album consumption” and “disruptions in the touring business” as other reasons for leaving the Gambino name behind. He also said, “Success to me is, honestly, being able to put out a wide-scale album that I would listen to. For this album, I really wanted to be able to play big rooms and have big, anthemic songs that fill those rooms, so that people feel a sense of togetherness.”

While this is the final Gambino album, it’s not the final Gambino endeavor: A couple months ago, Glover announced a massive Gambino world tour that runs from August 2024 to February 2025.

Childish Gambino Reveals Tracklist For “Bando Stone And The New World”

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Childish Gambino does not do anything halfway. If anything has been gleaned from his decade plus in the limelight, it’s that he commits to whatever he’s doing. Bando Stone and the New World, his brand new album, and last under the Gambino name, is no exception. The album is being touted as one of the most ambitious of his career. The singles, “Lithonia” and “In the Night,” bear this out. With the release date right around the corner, though Gambino finally blessed fans with the official tracklist.

Bando Stone and the New World has 17 songs and multiple features. As expected, both of the lead singles are present in the tracklist. An unexpected detail, however, is that Amaarae, the singer who is featured on “In the Night,” is also present on two other songs. The R&B singer will appear on the album opener, “H3@RT$ W3RE M3@NT TO F7Y,” and the Flo Milli collab “TALK MY SH*T.” Other features on the album include Chloe, Khruangbin, Yeat and Foushee. The versatility of these artists suggests the range of sounds that fans will hear on the album.

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Childish Gambino Will Experiment With Different Sounds

While previous reported collaborators like Jorja Smith and Foushee are listed on the album’s tracklist, others are absent. Steve Lacy and Kamasi Washington were two artists who attended the Bando Stone listening party in. Lacy was reported to have worked on the song “Steph’s Beach,” while Washington provided horns on a track called “Survivor.” Both are listed on the final tracklist (“Survivor” has since become “Survive”), but we can assume that both artists are merely uncredited.

What are your thoughts on the tracklist for Bando Stone and New World? Are you excited to listen to the album? Does this have the chance to be Childish Gambino’s best album based on all the information we have? We would like to hear what you have to say, so leave your thoughts in the comments. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Logic. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.

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