Before meeting Glover, the thing I’d noticed about his Childish Gambino persona was its incessant cleverness. Other rappers get clever, of course, as in Kanye’s lines from “Gorgeous”: “The same people that tried to blackball me / forgot about two things, my black balls.” But they’...
I’ve seen him live twice — performing stand-up comedy in Miami Beach in 2012, and holding a sold-out arena in the palm of his hand as Childish Gambino earlier this year in Tampa. He is The Man, so I was going to watch and enjoy this show no matter what. It will be interesting...