Your girl Cardi B opened the show with an exciting reveal of what we thought was her adorable baby, but turned out to be…..her moon person for Song of Summer, but the Bronx native went on to snag awards for Best New Artist and Best Collab later in the night. Shawn Mendes’ dripping performance of “In My Blood” had us sweating, Logic brought people facing immigration issues up on stage with him during “One Day,” and Panic! At The Disco had us dancing during “High Hopes.”

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Last week, in a now-deleted tweet, the Invasion of Privacy rapper seemingly made an astute observation before quickly realizing she was incorrect.

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Atlanta is Glover’s brainchild – he stars as Earnest “Earn” Marks, a guy who went to Princeton, dropped out, wound up broke and desperate back home in Atlanta. Now he struggles to get over by managing his cousin Alfred, a rapper who goes by the nom du hip-hop Paper Boi (the superb Brian Tyree Henry). Earn can’t catch a break whatever he does – the whole world stunts on him, whether he’s trying to get a good night’s sleep in a storage unit or live large at the strip club. He’s got a kid with his off-and-on girlfriend Vanessa (Zazie Beetz), but he feels like a failure at both roles. And the whole city has gone dark on him: It’s “Robbin’ Season,” the time when the crime rate rises right before everybody needs cash at Christmas.

The show’s second season is in the tradition of classic hip-hop second albums like De La Soul Is Dead or Kanye’s Late Registration – having spent the first season overflowing with creative ebullience, eccentric yet crowd-pleasing, the second chapter swerves hard into the grim. Glover has often called Atlanta “Twin Peaks for rappers,” and this season definitely enters the Black Lodge. There are tense and abrupt moments where violence is in the air; the emotional conflicts get even crueler. Paper Boi has become a ghetto superstar, but now he’s got the burden of local rap notoriety without the checks to go with it. In one perfect scene, he stares at his phone, watching in horror as a suburban white girl named Amber with a guitar sings her version of “Paper Boi” on YouTube. “An acoustic rap cover,” Darius explains. “Them white girls love that shit.”

There’s still the kind of sweetly zonked stoner comedy in a parking-lot philosophy question like “What flavor is a Flaming Hot Cheeto?” – if that’s all Glover had wanted to achieve with Atlanta, that would have been plenty. But after seeing how much weird dankness he got away with the first time, he’s aiming even higher now. There’s a funny moment where he listens to a small-time criminal operator go off about a certain cartoon horseman: “I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s a funny show, but the way they dive into depression, and especially after what he did to her daughter, I was like can I even feel bad for this horse anymore?!” Like Bojack Horseman,Earn struggles with his own depression, but also he also has to negotiate the depression piled up all over the city and its history. He’s between different worlds and not really at home in any of them, as in the moment when he tries to defuse a stand-off between the cops and his uncle – beautifully played by stand-up comic Katt Williams as a crotchety old man who keeps an alligator in the bathtub.

Many of us became huge Donald Glover fans when he was on Dan Harmon’s Community – but at this point, Community barely even makes his top ten career highlights. As the obsessive science-fiction geek Troy, Glover had a great Community moment in the episode about their model U.N. – he’s the representative from Georgia, adopting a cartoonish Southern accent and hamming it up. He gets testy when anyone points out it’s supposed to be the Georgia that’s a country in Eastern Europe. When the model U.N. votes on a resolution, Glover smiles sweetly and drawls, “Georgia – the country – is much obliiiiiged.” The easily overlooked tension in that moment all comes out in Atlanta – his relationship with his home state, like Earn’s relationship with his family, is a source of creative rage and pain. But as Glover keeps proving on Atlanta, he’s just getting more restless and ambitious all the time. The best might be yet to come.

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The dapper actor-rapper-director graces the latest cover of Esquire. During the interview, he opens up about the upcoming season of “Atlanta” and compares himself to another beloved MC-thespian. “I know everybody likens themselves to Tupac a lot,” he said. “I am the new Tupac in a strange way.”

The Grammy winner went on to explain why he sees so many similarities between himself and Tupac Shakur. “I grew up similar,” he added. “I didn’t have a mom in the Black Panthers, but my parents were very pro-black. Also, my mom made me go to performing-arts high school. She was like, ‘That’s where you need to be.’ Sometimes you have to play a role for people to understand you, even though you’re far more complex than any of that. Sometimes it’s really hard to simplify that so people can eat it.”

He is far from the first rapper to compare himself to Tupac. Recently, Troy Ave and Boosie Badazz made similar comparisons, and XXXTentacion even said he is better than the late icon.

Glover, who recently welcomed his second child, is currently working on a new album. That project is said to be Gambino’s last, though it is unclear whether he plans on retiring from music entirely, or simply from releasing material under the Childish moniker.

He is also prepping for the upcoming second season of “Atlanta,” dubbed “Robbin’ Season,” which premieres March 1 on FX. “I know season two of ‘Atlanta’ is something because it makes me nervous,” he added

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“Donald is undoubtedly one of the most talented, multi-faceted, young entertainers of this era,” said RCA Chairman/CEO Peter Edge of the signing. “We are excited to join forces with him and Wolf + Rothstein to usher in the next phase of Childish Gambino’s musical career.”

Added Glover: “It was a necessary change of pace.

Based in Temple Studios in Los Angeles, Wolf + Rothstein is the creative agency comprised of Glover, Wolf Taylor, and Fam Rothstein, all whom worked with the band that helped create the “Awaken My Love!” album, which, along with the single “Redbone,” are nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best Urban Contemporary Album.

“Awaken My Love!” and Gambino’s two prior albums were released through GlassNote Records; execs from the company spoke with Variety last year about the campaign to make “Redbone” a hit single. The song finished out 2017 at No. 20 on BuzzAngle Music’s most consumed songs chart.

Childish Gambino is set to perform at the 60th Grammy Awards on January 28.

As a label, Wolf + Rothstein also released two projects in 2016: Kari Faux’s “Lost en Los Angeles,” which had several songs featured in Issa Rae’s hit HBO series “Insecure,” and Black Party’s “Mango.” The company will be partnering with Kobalt for publishing.

“Being malleable is important to us, and that’s what this partnership allows. Also, it was about that time,” Fam Rothstein said. Julian K. Petty, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP adds: “This partnership is a real commitment to artistry and the future of music. I’m happy I could play a small part in helping put it together.”

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The question is, what will he be performing? The obvious choice would be “Redbone,” which went double platinum over the summer and was featured in Jordan Peele’s hit horror film Get Out. Or he could be choosing to play “Me and Your Mama,” which was the lead single from Awaken, My Love! With five Grammy nominations to his name this year, Glover could be down to do anything.

Either way, it’s going to be a highlight to a night that could be another notch in Glover’s belt.

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