The new album Bando Stone & the New World, billed as a soundtrack to a coming film, revives some of the anarchic spirit of Donald Glover’s earliest work as Childish Gambino. Pavielle Garcia/Courtesy of the artist
Pavielle Garcia/Courtesy of the artist
Near the end of “Yoshinoya,” a punchy cut from the album Donald Glover has called his last as Childish Gambino, Bando Stone & the New World, he makes a subtle yet pointed observation about the state of the rap ecosystem: “Man, the blog era over, takin’ all our stars.”
The first half of the sentence is easy enough to