{"id":5492,"date":"2026-03-30T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/donald-glover-says-hes-not-done-with-music-yet-i-like-telling-stories-complex\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:38:43","slug":"donald-glover-says-hes-not-done-with-music-yet-i-like-telling-stories-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/donald-glover-says-hes-not-done-with-music-yet-i-like-telling-stories-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Glover Says He's Not Done With Music Yet: 'I Like Telling Stories' – Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the premiere of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em> in Kyoto, Japan, Donald Glover <\/a>gave an update on where he\u2019s at when it comes to making new music.
The actor-filmmaker-musician released his fifth album as Childish Gambino<\/a>, Bando Stone & the New World<\/em>, in 2024. At the time, he indicated it was his final album<\/a>, at least under the Gambino moniker. Speaking with Nischelle Turner for Entertainment Tonight<\/em> at the Mario<\/em> premiere, Glover said that his passion for music is still there, but for now, he\u2019s keeping anything he records to himself.
\u201cWhy are you putting me out there?\u201d he laughed when asked about whether he is actually done with music. \u201cI still really love making music. I don't think that's ever going to go away. I love making it, you know, even if that's for myself. Even if it's just, you know\u2026 I have plenty of songs that are, like, just for me. And I'm not saying like, oh, I'm like, putting them out. \u2026 I just love making it. You know, I don't know if I\u2026I like telling stories. So, like, if I can make something that I'm like, \u2018Oh, people should hear this,\u2019 I definitely will put it out.\u201d
Glover\u2019s longtime collaborator Ludwig G\u00f6ransson<\/a> revealed last year that he\u2019s still processing his friend\u2019s decision to retire Gambino.
\u201cWe are a family \u2026 I'm not sure actually I [can] still kind of wrap my head around it,\u201d G\u00f6ransson told Zane Lowe at the time. \u201cBut it wasn't sad in a way. I wasn't sad \u2026 because I know that it's not like he's gonna stop making music.\u201d
In 2024, Glover kicked off a tour in support of Bando Stone & the New World<\/em>, but was forced to cancel a large portion of dates due to health reasons. In November 2025, he performed at Camp Flog Gnaw Festival<\/a> and shared that he suffered a stroke.
"I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and I did the show anyway,\u201d he told the crowd. "I couldn\u2019t really see well, so when we went to Houston, I went to the hospital, and the doctor was like, 'You had a stroke.' And the first thing I thought was like, 'Oh, here I am still copying Jamie Foxx.<\/a>' \u2026 They found a hole in my heart. So I had this surgery, and then I had to have another surgery.\u201d
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