Who is Childish Gambino?

We all know who Donald Glover/Childish Gambino is. We didn’t want to do our standard introduction -> works -> legacy slideshow.

Instead, we wanted to take a look at the more interior moments that have built Donald Glover, and celebrate the recent ending of Childish Gambino.

“I think that kid really wanted a home,” Donald Glover, New York Times 

source : “Why Donald Glover is Saying Goodbye to Childish Gambino” - New York Times

Open Letter - 12/2013

Before this letter was published, Donald Glover had recently turned 30 and had achieved mild acclaim in recent years — having released three mixtapes, a debut album, two comedy specials, and a short film. However, his transition from comedy to music was still tenuous, and his reputation as a “joke rapper” marred his artistic integrity.

With his success limited, Glover reached rock bottom, and to survive, he architected a world where he could exist in his upcoming album Because the Internet.

source: @donaldglover

Before this letter was published, Donald Glover had recently turned 30 and had achieved mild acclaim in recent years — having released three mixtapes, a debut album, two comedy specials, and a short film. However, his transition from comedy to music was still tenuous, and his reputation as a “joke rapper” marred his artistic integrity.

With his success limited, Glover reached rock bottom, and to survive, he architected a world where he could exist in his upcoming album Because the Internet.

becausetheinter.net

Because the Internet was released with an accompanying screenplay, written to be read alongside the album. The screenplay was published on the website becausetheinter.net, and involved internet slang and emojis, and clips from his prequel short film Clapping for the Wrong Reasons. The screenplay follows “The Boy,” who lives in an LA mansion and spends his time idly making music and posting videos to WorldStar. Eventually, The Boy is forced to sell drugs.

"Because the internet I'm here, because of the internet we're all here. It's the language of earth. Everyone keeps saying by this or that year, Mandarin or Spanish will be the most dominant language, but the internet is already a language we are all connected to; even my dad can understand the meme format. But the thing is, there are no rules, which is also the awesome thing." - Donald Glover, Exclaim

Royalty

In 2012, Donald Glover’s creative collective Royalty was formed. They modeled themselves after the Kennedy clan, with Donald’s brother, Stephen, stating “We decided that we should all live like American royalty, a union of kings.”

Their first project began with Gambino’s EP “Royalty,” and the Royalty collective soon became the foundation for Atlanta’s writer’s room four years later.

Donald Glover, Fam Udeorji, Stephen Glover, Ibra Ake, Jamal “Swank” Olori, Chad Taylor and Miles Konstantin

source: Royalty Helped Make Donald Glover a Superstar. What’s Next? - Rolling Stone

@DonaldsDad

Donald Glover Sr. used to be active on Twitter (@DonaldsDad), always shouting out his son and engaging with his son’s fans.

“Glover has said in interviews that his father, Donald Glover Sr., was a postal worker, and had no diploma. Despite this, he was able to self-educate, and knew half of the paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, which contains nearly 3,000 paintings and 30,000 works of art.” - Genius

According to Childish Gambino’s 2013 feature on Amoeba’s “What’s in My Bag” series, Donald Glover Sr.’s favorite album was Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain.

source: IV. Sweatpants - Genius

A Place Where Love Goes

The concluding track on Bando Stone and the New World, “A Place Where Love Goes,” features Glover’s firstborn son, Legend Glover, on the intro.

“You give what you can, but there’s beauty everywhere in every moment. You don’t have to build it. You don’t have to search for it.” - Donald Glover, New York Times

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