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Childish Gambino – “Awaken, My Love!”

Donald Glover has been proving a lot recently that he is one of the more prolific creative minds out there today. He’s a successful stand-up and comedic performer, a skilled dramatic actor, a writer/director/producer/star of an acclaimed new television show Atlanta, and of course, a rapper/hip-hop artist. Under the stage name Childish Gambino he already has a handful of releases under his belt, gaining scores of fans with his unique and frenetic style. His latest offering, however, is completely out of left field. After keeping the recording process a virtual airtight secret, he has surprised everyone with a big departure from his alt. hip-hop style we’ve come to know. His third full-length record “Awaken, My Love!” is steeped in soul, R&B, funk and psychedelic rock. It bares a deep resemblance to the funkadelic movement of the ‘70s that combined the popularity of psychedlia in rock ‘n’ roll music with the[...]

April 14th

April 19th marks the 20th year human beings have been able to buy and/or steal Nas’ seminal album Illmatic. To celebrate the glory of himself, the MC has launched a multi-city tour, which you are doubtless aware of if you found yourself pondering your life’s ambition at Coachella over the weekend. Illmatic XX, a reissue of the 1994 record featuring freestyles, remixes, and demos will be out April 15th, or tomorrow as we like to say around here. This will then be followed by a documentary chronicling the making of the Greatest Hip-Hop Record of Forever and Always titled Time is Illmatic, which I guess can loosely be defined as an admission that everything Nas has done since 1994 exists on the spectrum between abject shit and could-be-worse. As an artist, he has offered little of value in a modern world where everyone has a favorite Jay-Z song but can’t even think the name[...]