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Childish Gambino and Ravyn Lenae

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Key Takeaways:

• Childish Gambino previewed his new monitor, which options Ravyn Lenae, on GILGA Radio.
• Their newest collaboration builds on previous work and highlights Lenae’s emotional storytelling.
• The launch hints at Gambino’s potential return to music regardless of his earlier retirement announcement.

Donald Glover may not be retiring his Childish Gambino moniker in any case. On Sunday (July 6), the multi-hyphenate artist previewed a brand new report that includes Ravyn Lenae through his personal GILGA Radio.

“Caught in a moment, nobody has to know / Moments are forming, eternity spending alone / Gave up the late night for mornings that felt the same / We are forever whenever I say your name,” Gambino croons over the sun-drenched instrumental.

After the “Redbone” hitmaker’s comparatively easy refrain, Lenae brings a bit of heat to the following verse. She sings, “I watch you closely to know you’re smart enough / You’ll answer, surely, there must be a God above.” Listen to the snippet beneath.

Gambino and Lenae aren’t strangers within the studio. The two beforehand collaborated on “One Wish,” one of many deeper cuts from the Chicago singer’s sophomore LP, Bird’s Eye. At the time, she called it “one of the most important songs on the album” as a result of it explored the difficult relationship she had together with her largely absent father.

Either means, new music from the “Atlanta” star is a nice shock, particularly since he made it clear he’d retired the alias following final 12 months’s Bando Stone and The New World. “It really was just like, ‘Oh, it’s done,’” he informed The New York Times. “It’s not fulfilling. And I just felt like I didn’t need to build in this way anymore.”

That being mentioned, Bando Stone and The New World was greater than a becoming farewell. Fans bought “Lithonia” and “Yoshinoya,” plus actually thrilling collaborations with Yeat, Chlöe, Flo Milli, Jorja Smith and Amaarae, who appeared on the LP twice.

At the second, it is up within the air whether or not the brand new Lenae-assisted monitor alerts Gambino’s official return to music or if the report will keep tucked away like his Ye and Kid Cudi-assisted “Say Less.” Regardless, there’s no such factor as an excessive amount of materials in the case of somebody as multifaceted as Glover.