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Donald Glover, otherwise known as Childish Gambino, is revealing details about “This Is America.”
The 39-year-old star got candid in a new interview about his hit 2018 track, which went viral and sparked conversations about race and police brutality.
However, it actually started as something less serious: a Drake diss track.
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“I had the idea three years before. I told [director] Hiro [Murai] the idea, and he’s like, ‘I really want to do that.’… The idea for the song started as a joke,” he said to GQ.
“To be completely honest, ‘This is America’ — that was all we had was that line. It started as a Drake diss, to be honest, as like a funny way of doing it. But then I was like, this s–t sounds kind of hard though. So I was like, let me play with it,” he continued.
His feud with Drake started in 2014 when he said during an Australian gig this his rapper alter ego was better than Drake, Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q combined. The two have reportedly become friends in the years since.
He also revealed he’s working with Malia Obama on a film.
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This Morning viewers were quick to remark 'this isn't going well' as a live interview suffered a few stumbling blocks. Craig Doyle and Josie Gibson found themselves being apologsied to as they fronted the ITV daytime show on Friday (April 14).
Donald Glover's multimedia company Gilga has put out an open call for applications in nine different roles. The multimedia company was detailed in a recent GQ profile outlining Glover's vision for a production studio, incubator, restaurant, and beyond.
Donald Glover was on the cutting edge of fashion when he attended the Brooklyn Nets game at Barclays Center on Friday night (April 7) in Brooklyn, New York.
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told GQ in a new video feature about his “most iconic” characters. “As like, a funny way of doing it.
Donald Glover is opening up about his time at “30 Rock”.
Donald Glover has confirmed that Lucasfilm are discussing the possibility of a Lando Calrissian series for Disney+.The potential Star Wars series was first announced back in 2020, but further developments have yet to emerge.Glover is set to reprise the role of the titular character, having previously portrayed him in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars story.While the fate of the series is still uncertain, Glover recently confirmed in an interview that Lucasfilm is definitely interested in moving ahead with the project.Speaking to GQ, he said: “Lando is definitely somebody I’d like to hang out with. I mean we’re talking about it.
Malia Obama and Donald Glover will continue to work together in the future. In a new profile, Glover spoke about Malia and revealed that his new production company would be developing Malia’s short film, which she’s “creating.”Michelle Obama talks about Malia and Sasha and their changes over the yearsMalia Obama laughs alongside Joe Biden’s grandkidsGlover spoke with GQ magazine, sharing that his production company Gilga will be producing the short film. He also talked a bit about “mentoring” Malia, sharing a piece of advice with her.
Donald Glover is opening up about playing Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story and let it slip that he has been in talks to reprise his role.
While “Solo: A Star Wars Story” isn’t one of the premier films in the franchise, most people can agree that Donald Glover’s performance as a young Lando Calrissian is pretty great. And there have been rumors about more Glover in the galaxy far, far away, but no confirmation that it’ll happen.
Donald Glover has spoken candidly about his time working on 30 Rock, and said that Tina Fey told him he was a “diversity hire”.The actor and rapper, also known as Childish Gambino, was speaking during a new interview yesterday (April 4), when he explained how he got his first writing job, working for the US sitcom 30 Rock.According to Glover, he got the role back in 2006, back when he was still a resident assistant in Goddard – living in a dorm in New York City. However, despite performing well in his role, he consistently felt like an outsider.“It definitely didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there,” he told GQ.
One of the most celebrated songs of the last decade had surprising origins.
told GQ in April’s cover story. “There is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said it herself.”“The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris.
Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) has opened up about the origins of his 2018 smash-hit ‘This Is America’ revealing that it was initially written as a diss song aimed at Drake.In a new interview with GQ, Glover sat down in an orange grove to unpack the stories behind some of his most iconic characters. In addition to the story behind his actual origins in music – which involved “love at first sight” with renowned composer Ludwig Göransson, who worked on Community and every one of Glover’s records as Childish Gambino – the multi-hyphenate talked through the hectic process he went through to make his biggest hit.“Time is the oven that makes something special,” Glover said, noting that he and Göransson “did a lot of work” to make the track work.
Last year, Liam Neeson made a surprise cameo in “Atlanta”, in which the “Taken” star referred to his 2019 racism scandal, which he sparked by recalling his rage after a friend was raped by a Black man, revealing he took to the streets in the hopes that a “Black bastard” would “come out of a pub and have a go at me… so that I could kill him.”
Donald Glover is opening up about Gilga, his production company headquartered in Ojai, California. One of the projects that have people buzzing is a short film created by Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former President of the U.S. Barack Obama and former First Lady of the U.S. Michelle Obama.
, a Harvard graduate, kicked off her career with a summer internship on , and was recently . Since she doesn't do interviews or social media, we don't really know what her artistic POV is yet, but it seems like she's taking the business pretty seriously.