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Vince Staples Joins Childish Gambino For October 2018 Tour Dates

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The GRAMMY winner adds tour dates to his upcoming fall tour
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Apr 30, 2018 - 12:02 pm

Childish Gambino — aka Donald Glover — won Best Traditional R&B Performance at the 60th GRAMMY Awards for "Redbone," performed "Terrified" during the telecast and last month he announced a national arena tour with Rae Sremmurd. On April 30 new dates were added to this tour, so fans can catch the music, movie and television star before he retires his Childish Gambino persona.

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Rapper Vince Staples will be joining Gambino for October dates — adding Denver, Nashville, Tenn., Phoenix, and San Jose, Calif., to the tour as well as a return engagement at the Los Angeles Forum on Oct. 3. In addition, Rae Sremmurd will help Gambino hold down a second date at Madison Square Garden on Sept. 15, added the night after their previously scheduled New York date.

Pre-sale tickets go on sale May 1 via Ticketmaster. Sales of new engagements open to the general public on May 4.

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Childish Gambino Releases Two-Tune 'Summer Pack' EP

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"Summertime Magic" and "Feels Like Summer" keep the heat feeling groovy
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Jul 11, 2018 - 1:50 pm

GRAMMY winner Childish Gambino released his Summer Pack EP on July 11 — two new tracks to keep you locked in the groove while it's hot. The audio-only singles "Summertime Magic" and "Feels Like Summer" were produced by the artist with long-time collaborator and GRAMMY nominee Ludwig Goransson.

Childish Gambino is, of course, the musical persona of singer/songwriter, actor and TV producer Donald Glover. His schedule feels as accelerated as the Millennium Falcon, fresh off his appearance on the BET Awards, prepping for his tour starting September, and sharing the Austin City Limits Music Festival headliner bill with Paul McCartney this October. If that weren't enough, an additional appearance was just announced on July 11 — he'll also be performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival on Sept. 21 in Las Vegas.

Gambino's "This Is America" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 after he released a video for the song and  performed it on "Saturday Night Live." Behind his SNL performance of the new song "Saturday," viewers could spot a smiling Ludwig Goransson on guitar. Those two songs plus the July 11 Summer Pack make up four tracks from what fans expect will be his upcoming album, while they cross their fingers that it won't be his last. After his GRAMMY win in Jan. 2018 backstage, he ominously added weight to rumors his musical persona will be terminated by saying he liked "endings" and advocating the benefits of contracts having a "death clause."

Meanwhile, Glover is currently voicing Simba for the upcoming The Lion King remake. Fans, with their fans turned on, can enjoy the Summer Pack songs while waiting for an audio release of his second song from SNL, "Saturday." One of the most versatile and surprising of entertainers, he's bound to keep everyone guessing at what's coming next.

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Star Wars 2018: Donald Glover Takes Us Inside The Millennium Falcon

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In advance of 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' hitting theaters later this month, the maestro behind Childish Gambino and "Atlanta" shows us inside the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
May 2, 2018 - 3:18 pm

In 1975, Parliament's "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" advised us to "free your mind and come fly with me. It's hip on the mothership." The final countdown to fly with Han Solo and Lando Calrissian is now in progress with the impending May 25 release of Solo: A Star Wars Story. On May 2, Donald Glover took us on a tour of the mothership, the Millennium Falcon, no doubt whetting the appetite of Star Wars fans who are waiting impatiently for the Ron Howard-directed film.

Last September, Glover took home his first career Emmy wins for his work on "Atlanta." More recently, 60th GRAMMY viewers were enthralled on Jan. 28 when Glover took the stage in his Childish Gambino persona to sing "Terrified." He won Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Redbone" at the 60th GRAMMY Awards and, during an interview after the show, addressed his plans to retire Gambino.

Now, in a galaxy far, far away, Glover will take on the identity of Lando Calrissian, perhaps the slickest space gangster in one of the most popular movie franchises of all time. Solo … comes into the series' timeline while Lando still owns the ship — before he loses it to Han Solo in a bet — and it's got a cape room!

As Glover points out in the tour video, Lando knows how to take care of his ride — we get to see it new before Solo and Chewie roughed it up as a result of all those Imperial entanglements. Of course, the natural follow-up question is how much of what Glover shows us comes standard on all Corellian YT-1300f light freighters versus what are Lando's customized modifications? It's clear we can't run out and buy one soon, but the conversation has moved forward since Parliament's 1975 single invited us to fly in space.

In addition to his big debut as Lando Calrissian on the big screen, Glover recently added new Childish Gambino dates to his upcoming tour and he's preparing to host "Saturday Night Live" on May 5.

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Donald Glover Confirms Impending Retirement Of Childish Gambino

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The eventual end of Childish Gambino looks more certain as Donald Glover confessed GRAMMY night, "I like endings"
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Jan 30, 2018 - 4:03 pm

Although Childish Gambino's body of musical work has now been recognized by the GRAMMY Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for his hit "Redbone," that may not be enough to change Donald Glover's plan to give Gambino only one more try before retirement. Billboard zeroed in on the will-he or won't-he question of how long Glover's alias has left to produce, following up on the news Glover made discussing Gambino's final project last summer and his need to keep things "fresh."

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Glover definitely kept things fresh on Music's Biggest Night when he took the GRAMMY Stage. He was joined on stage for his performance of "Terrified" by child actor/singer JD McCrary. Unlike Gambino, Glover believes McCrary has an inspiring future. "He's just a natural talent. It was really nice to be able to share that with him," said Glover, saying songs are an escape from the "machine" of the music industry. "To him it was just, 'I get to sing.' So it was really inspiring."

In the same backstage interview in which it seemed that the future retirement of Childish Gambino was set in stone, Glover declared things felt "surreal" and that he would give the following advice to his younger self. "Nothing is what it seems, everything is made-up, so you have to control your destiny and your narrative," Glover imagines himself saying — perhaps a clue to the fate of Childish Gambino.

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Vince Staples

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Vince Staples To Tour North America In 2019

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The West Coast rapper will embark on a headlining tour starting Feb. 1, shortly after closing out dates in support of Childish Gambino
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 11, 2018 - 1:47 pm

Rapper Vince Staples announced today, Dec. 11, he will be kicking off the "Smile, You're On Camera" tour across North America in Feb. 2019. Before starting off his 37-show headline trek, he is set to finish up several shows this month as support for GRAMMY winner Childish Gambino, whose final tour (under that moniker) got pushed back due to a foot injury.

Staples' headlining tour begins in Tucson, Ariz. on Feb. 1 with dates eastbound across the U.S., showing Florida some love with three shows around Valentine's Day, stopping in New York City on Feb. 21, followed by a few more East Coast dates, including Washington, D.C. on Feb. 22.

He also has several concerts planned for our neighbors up north, including a Montreal show on Feb. 28 and a Toronto Show on Mar. 5. The Southern California rapper eventually makes his way back to the West Coast, including a show in Los Angeles on Mar. 30, and closing it all out on April 3 with a show in Pomona, Calif.

All show dates can be found in Staples' Tweet. Fellow SoCal rappers Buddy and JPEGMAFIA will be offering opening support. The tour follows the release of Staples' latest (surprise) release, his third studio album, FM!

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Select dates go on sale tomorrow, Dec. 13—visit Ticketmaster for more info.

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