5/23/2023 0 Comments Stay woke by childish gambino![]() ![]() Pretty, pretty excited to see more of this in Australia over the next couple of months. Check out the clip above and be prepared to hit replay a few times. Backed by his live band and a choir, the performance cements Gambino’s chameleonic vocal abilities and makes you appreciate his new works so much more. ![]() Channelling some serious Prince/Lenny Kravitz energy, Gambino is front and centre in a pair of delightfully sparkly pants (and nothing else) while he flexes that falsetto. By now, we probably all know just how sexy this track is but the Atlanta creator was bound to up the ante with the IRL performance and boy, he does not disappoint. It gained mainstream popularity when it was used by the Black Lives Matter movement during and after the 2014 Ferguson riots. The phrase Stay woke is slang for stay awake, and encourages social or political awareness. We’ve very recently been blessed with a performance of ‘Redbone’, arguably one of the universal favourites from the album, when Gambino stopped by The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Hitting the chorus, the first line is quite intriguing, as Gambino uses the rather significant term woke. His latest effort landed him 5 Grammy nominations in 2018, including Album of the Year and. While everyone is still falling over themselves over his excellent album Awaken, My Love!,Childish Gambino is starting to do the rounds of late night television with live renditions of his new singles. In November 2016, Gambino announced his next LP, Awaken, My Love, which released on December 2nd.
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