Watch Childish Gambino Cover P.M. Dawn’s “I’d Die Without You”

Childish Gambino on BBC Live Lounge

Watch Childish Gambino Cover P.M. Dawn’s “I’d Die Without You”

Childish Gambino on BBC Live Lounge

We here at Stereogum have long been accused of not taking Donald Glover seriously. And while it’s true that I generally find Childish Gambino, Glover’s rap alter-ego, to be an unctuous, overly self-conscious, teacher’s-pet mic presence, his run on Community, which ended with a great goodbye episode a couple of weeks ago, was magical. He’s also long had good taste in openers, as he showed when he took a pre-Acid Rap Chance The Rapper on tour. And now we know that he has a lovely singing voice, too. On a recent visit to BBC Live Lounge, he did a lovely live-in-studio cover of P.M. Dawn’s 1992 slow jam “I’d Die Without You,” one of the most beautiful love songs that a human being has ever written. Watch it below.

Childish Gambino’s album Because The Internet is out now on Glassnote/Universal. And when P.M. Dawn’s The Bliss Album…? turned 20 last year, I wrote this about it.

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