Childish Gambino is said to have dissed Drake on his new track “Yoshinoya,” and now the song’s producer has something to say about the rumors – though it’s not much.
“Yoshinoya” was released on Gambino’s new album Bando Stone & The New World, and fans have been running wild with theories about it being a Drizzy diss. In one particular thread on X, someone broke down multiple lines from the track, explaining how they could be a slight.
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They first pointed out that Gambino himself previously admitted that “This Is America” was initially a Drake diss track in a GQ interview, which resulted in Drake responding on his tour with a headline on the big screen that read: “The Overrated And Over Awarded Hit Song ‘This Is America’ Was Originally A Drake Diss Record.”
Then they broke down multiple bars on the song, including, “I put your boy in the street, you got your biz in the streets” – saying that it’s referencing the Toronto superstar because he’s known as The Boy and he was put on blast by Kendrick Lamar.
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Retweeting the thread on Wednesday (July 24), the song’s producer Michael Uzowuru used a screenshot of Top Dawg Entertainment president Terrence “Punch” Henderson simply saying “lol.”
Check out the post below.
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— uzi (@michaeluzowuru) July 24, 2024
Meanwhile, Childish Gambino has been plagued by sluggish first-week sales in recent years, and that trend looks set to continue with Bando Stone & The New World.
According to HITS Daily Double, the rapper/actor’s fifth LP is projected to earn 35,000 album-equivalent units in its opening week, including 3,000 in pure sales.
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That figure means the LP will miss out on a top 10 debut on the Billboard 200 chart, entering at No. 15.
Gambino has struggled to match the impressive first-week figures that he posted in the 2010s.
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His 2013 album Because the Internet debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 with 96,000 first-week copies before Billboard began counting streams towards album sales.
Three years later, the soul and funk-inspired “Awaken, My Love!” did even better by earning 101,000 units in its opening week, cracking the top five on the chart.
Bino’s follow-up project 3.15.20, however, represented a sharp commercial decline, posting just 25,000 equivalent units in its first seven days. (The album has since been removed from streaming services and reissued under the name Atavista.)
Its performance perhaps wasn’t helped by the lack of a traditional promotional rollout (it was released by surprise on Donald Glover’s website before being removed 12 hours later and uploaded to streaming services), as well as its cryptic album and song titles and blank white cover.
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Despite his first-week sales struggles, Gambino has still earned a string of gold and platinum plaques in recent years, not to mention several Grammy Awards.
