Despite the recent success of Awaken, My Love!, which received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, Donald Glover has confirmed his plans to retire Childish Gambino.
Glover shared the news during a Q&A at Sunday’s (January 28) Grammy Awards. The entertainment powerhouse seemed optimistic in his decision to let Childish Gambino go, speaking on the power of endings.
Frazzled fans can take solace in the fact that Glover still plans to release one more project.
“I’m real appreciative of this,” Glover said. “And I’m still making another project right now. But I like endings. I think they’re important to progress. I think that if a lot of things had death clauses in them, we wouldn’t have a lot of problems in the world. To be honest. So, I think endings are good ’cause they force things to get better.”
News of Glover retiring his Wu-Tang Name Generator-created moniker came last year, during his June performance at New York City’s Governor’s Ball Music Festival.
“I’ll see you for the last Gambino album,” he informed the audience at the conclusion of his set.
Glover (as Glover) has found continued success with acting, with his hit FX series Atlanta returning for a second season in March. He’ll also star as Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Star Wars Han Solo spinoff movie.
May the G.O.A.T. Rest in Peace, Childish Gambino
More wack singing instead of straight forward hiphop. Fuck Donald! Hail Gambino!
sound like you gotta dick in the booty.
That acting money must be real good
More like that executive producer and writer and director money. Atlanta show was a game-changer for him.
a actors money is always better than a singer or rapper to many strings attach in the music biz but acting check on time money good no recoup before you get paid
Not really true it’s harder to make a career off being a actor unless you’re a top tier actor or you wanna grind in do like 10+ roles a year and even then you have to be wanted. Actors don’t make as much as people think. The thing is to try to land on a show on a major network like cbs, nbc, abc, fox try and hope that your show doesn’t get cancel after first season. Rappers and singers don’t even need to be popular but just have a decent fanbase and you can tour forever some hip hop groups that came out in the 90’s can book anything from like 20-60 shows a year and even if your in a 4-5 man group and you get like 3k-5k a piece a show that can crack 6 figures a year just off shows alone. Some good actors can go a year or 2 without even landing a average paying role.
Good point I should have gone into detail on this subject you left out that new artist that have sign them messed up 360 deals are just slaves to the label but we on the same page
Was rich before hand dudes
His music was only good when he was ripping off Funkadelic and Prince anyway. Good to see he’s decided to play to his strengths.
Cool, concentrate on Atlanta and movies and bag more acting awards!
I think he is just getting rid of the title Childish Gambino. He just signed a deal with RCA so I cannot imagine he will no longer be making music
Ah so maybe just release non-rap music under a new name. Works for me. he’s cool as a rapper, but i like his weirder stuff better. I feel like he’s entering his Andre 3000 era.