Childish Gambino

Overview

Starred in Community, written for 30 Rock, amassed over 150 million YouTube views, performed an hour-long Comedy Central stand-up special, premiered his own feature film at Sundance, released two critically-acclaimed albums — what hasn't Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino done? Sold out the Hordern Pavilion you muppet, so get on it!

Having melted tickets to the Luna Park Big Top in under hour, internet rap god Gambino has been bumped up to the Hordern for his Splendour sideshow on Sunday, July 27. Off the back of his dark, brooding, highly ambitious and utterly unique second album Because the Internet, Gambino is set to mark one of the must-see winter gigs when he brings his Deep Web tour to town.

An increasingly complex and sophisticated rapper, Gambino has abandoned his previously upbeat, pop culture-riddled hooks in favour of a more introspective, genre-defying sound, while still retaining his disdain for the cliched tropes of hip hop and lazy lyricism of commercial rappers — all over beats that he produced himself. Why? Because, as he said in his breakout single 'Freaks and Geeks', having an Emmy just wasn't enough.