Because the Internet, Donald Glover’s second album as Childish Gambino, remains a weird record even after five years and a significant generational turnover in hip-hop. Childish Gambino presents Because The Internet. I thought I would post the scenes to give an idea of what the screenplay looks like. There is also a script which adds more depth to the scenes. After landing a Grammy nomination with 2013's Because the Internet, Childish Gambino. ‘Oh, I should just invite everybody camping',” he explained.

A Close Reading of Childish Gambino's 'Because The Internet'.

In which /u/fetfet50 close-reads “Because The Internet” days after it leaked. This is the definition of tryhard. It epitomizes reading too much into stuff. I just hope you like it.

First of all, the title. Because The Internet is an answer. It's an answer to a lot of questions, and some of them are even in the album. The album is a story, it's Gambino telling us what happened to him, and why that's a good thing and a bad thing. It also follows the monomyth, or the hero's journey, that was mapped out by Joseph Campbell. More importantly, he's following the story circle utilised by Dan Harmon, the creator of Community. It's good shit. Let's begin.

• “The Library”

This is five seconds of sound. Why does it even exist? Well, the order matters. Everything on this album's here on purpose. It was put in the place where it was for a reason. So why is “The Library” here at all, and why is it at the beginning? Because Bino's about to tell us a story. He's actually about to tell us four stories, but the library is where the stories are contained. So the tracks in the library section of the album are the tracks that exemplify the rest of the album. Inkeeping with the story circle, these tracks are also the main themes of the album.

• “I. The Crawl”

This song is about establishing who Gambino is, and how he got there. The first words of the first verse are “Who am I?” The song is establishing the character of Childish Gambino, so we can understand the changes he makes to himself and his music in the rest of the album. The song establishes Gambino's rap style too, full of references to other rappers, and full of itself. It's very catchy, corny rap, and this is the baseline for which we must evaluate Gambino. This is also the top half of Bino's story circle – self-reliance. It's called “The Crawl” for a reason – Gambino had to work to get to where he is, and to be so sure of him self. He starts out relying on himself. The second theme is “real life” - this is where Bino comes from.

• “II. Worldstar”

This is what Bino wants – fame. And he doesn't want the momentary fame that comes from doing something stupid. He wants the fame that inspires people to do stupid shit on the internet. Like write a fucking gigantic essay talking about how deep his album is. He says as much in the outro. “And all I wanna be is a Worldstar!” Gambino alludes to other things of adoration and fame, like Scorsese and Hollywood and Vine. Is that where the app comes from? Even though this is technically step 2 in the story circle, it sets the stage for further steps, setting the theme as “relying on others”, and “the internet”

• “Dial Up”

Another weird instrumental. These signal the transitions between the stories Bino is telling us. It's called “Dial Up” for a few reasons. First, it sounds a bit like how dial up modems would sound when they connected to the internet. So this song is Bino entering the internet, thus beginning his transition from real life to the internet. Secondly, Bino's “dialing up” his friends, his collaborators, and bringing them into his music. The Dial Up segment is Bino's musical life, from its inception to its completion.

• “I. The Worst Guys (ft Chance The Rapper)”

This is Bino's first foray into the internet. He doesn't rely heavily on Chance, and he keeps the tone fairly light, still filled with references, still self-referential, but at the end, after all is said and done, he realizes he's sitting on the porch, listening to the neighbours. He's alone. He's still too self-reliant. Too much like himself. He needs to break it down somehow.

• “II. Shadows”

Bino does this by slipping into his own darkness. He's trying to find the core of his own power, the thing that motivates him to succeed, but what he finds instead is this.. thing. There's a shell, stretched over his core, a shield, a shadow, that is preventing him from getting to the core of himself. As he's trying to find his own way into himself, he needs to find an outside motivation, and in Shadows that's a woman. He finds a woman to power through this shield that's preventing him from getting to himself. But he can't. So he gives up. And he gives up on the girl too, telling her that he's been using her. Now Bino's trying to find another way in, after that.

• “III. Telegraph Ave (Oakland by Lloyd)”

In this song, Bino tries to get inside himself by becoming a different person – Lloyd. Bino tries to take Lloyd's persona into himself. He wears it like a mask, and tries to bypass his own defenses. He needs to find another source of outside motivation, and he picks a girl again. This time, though, the girl's not having it. She sees the fakeness of Bino's impersonation of Lloyd, and she criticizes Bino – he gives up too easily, he needs to try something and really stick to it. When he does that, when he finds something that he can motivate himself with, then he'll be happy, and not alone. The girl offers to help - “Can we try?” Bino's hesitant, thinking that he can't do that while he's still unsure of himself, but he concedes.

• “IV. Application octet stream not supported. Sweatpants”

This is Bino assuming another persona, but for a different reason. This persona's not meant to understand himself, but to catch attention. And holy shit, it does that. This Bino is confident, arrogant even, rich, just blowing up. And he's a jerk. He's an asshole, and he knows it, but he doesn't care. People love it. People are eating the stuff he's saying up. People just stop caring once you hit a certain level. What's more, they stop caring once they think you've hit a certain level. “Sweatpants” is Bino pretending to be successful, and then becoming successful. This Bino persona, the affluent asshole, carries over to the next song.

• “V. 3005”

This song's the future. This is the song that Gambino's asshole persona would write, after breaking through into the shell into the core. But it's not the same core. It's a mask breaking a few layers deep. But that mask is just gonna hit the same shell that kept Gambino out the first time. So we get this song, on the surface about loving a woman so much that you'd never leave her. But this is a song about loving a woman so much that you want to be with her when you're alone. That's not a lot. Bino's alone a lot, though, so it's hard for him to tell the difference. He is beginning to realize that he can't sustain this persona forever – he can't be the rich asshole forever. Or can he? He has to be something. Incidentally, thinking you love a woman because you prefer her company to loneliness typifies an attitude of a lot of internet users.

• “Playing Around Before The Party”

This is ostensibly Gambino playing piano before the start of the next track, “I. The Party” He's made it. This is where he wanted to be. Famous. Noteworthy. And what is he doing? Playing minor chords on a piano while people laugh in the other room. Because now we've passed parts 3, 4, and 5 of the story circle. Bino looked for fame, sought it out, and with 3005, now has it. These next tracks deal with part 6 of the story circle, where Bino pays a price. That price, we're about to find out.

• “I. The Party”

This is the party. The intro, where Bino is singing, is his internal monologue – he's trying to convince himself that he enjoys partying. It's his party after all – he wouldn't have thrown a party if he didn't like doing it. The verse he spits is his slow realization that no, it's not his party. This is the party his asshole persona threw. He wakes up at the end of the verse, trying to get the people who came for his asshole persona to leave. These people think it's still part of the persona, though. And that's when Bino understands that this is not a party he can end.

• “II. No Exit”

That's because the party's internal. Gambino doesn't feel alone because he's surrounded himself in people who don't know who he is, his loneliness comes from his core. There's something inside Gambino that is subjecting him to this loneliness, and it's getting too much to bear. He doesn't know how to deal with the pain, and there's no way to leave it. The title, “No Exit”, is also a play by Sartre, which contains the line “Hell is other people.”

• “Death by Numbers”

These next tracks are the death of Gambino. That's plain and simple. The first three are roughly “before”, “during” and “after” death. The three tracks after that, I guess, are a kind of revival, a spiritual revival of Gambino, into something else. This covers 6, 7, and 8 on the story circle.

• “I. Flight of The Navigator”

This is Gambino's approach to death. He drifts out his body, and as he drifts outside of his body, he is given the key to unlocking himself. In the vision he sees as he dies (perhaps by being bitten by the brown recluse from “No Exit”) he sees a woman, and that woman will give Gambino the guidance he needs to look within himself. And she'll do this not for herself, and not for him, but for both of them. That is what love is. Love is working together. But at this point, Gambino has nothing and no one to work with, so he's moving on, to his death, and his judgement.

• “II. Zealots of Stockholm (Free Information)”

The Zealots of Stockholm, and Free Information, are white people on the internet, who are serious about Gambino. So, essentially, probably you, and definitely me, and everyone who ever had white skin and liked Gambino. He wants to be liked, he wants to earn respect, but he can't. He's painted this shell around him, and people liked, and now that's crashing down. People are angry at him, and they want to know if it was real or not. He finally reveals that he's using his remaining life to condemn himself. For what? Why? Because the internet. These people, the faceless, voiceless, shouting mouth, is screaming, it's screaming in your ears, and it's screaming into your soul. It's telling you that there's nothing left for you here, that it wasn't worth it. That you should give up. And Bino doesn't want them to be wrong – he relies on that voice, on the voices of others so much that he will destroy his own life just so they'll be right one last time. This is the Death of Childish Gambino. RIP in peace brev.

• “III. Urn”

Gambino's died. Cremated. His body is in an urn. But his soul is above all that. He's managed to transcend the hate that kept him in pain for all these years. He is peaceful. He's not done yet. He has work to do now. He understands his place in the world, in the real world, and he's ready to come back, leave the internet, and deliver that message. Now Gambino comes back. No wonder it's his favourite song.

• “I. Pink Toes (feat Jhene Aiko)'

How the fuck does he come back from the dead? Not alone. He needs help. Jhene Aiko is the one how is gonna help him. When Gambino died, his asshole self lived on. That asshole self is now a drug dealer, who's made Jhene's acquaintance, and they're dating. Why is Jhene, the woman who's gonna save Bino's soul, hanging out with a drug dealer? Because when Bino got the vision of them together, Jhene got the same vision. She knows that they're going to fall in love, and Jhene wants that too. So she sticks around for Gambino to come back to his body.

• “II. Earth: The Oldest Computer”

Bino comes back, and he's gonna change things. He thinks. He doesn't know how much time he has. Maybe this is the last time he's got to make an impression. So now he's really got to try. He knows what happens if he doesn't, the judgement of the Zealots of Stockholm, the keyboard brigade. Bino needs to understand himself, and he's got all the tools to do it. He goes inside himself, where he sees the world. He sees the connections we make to each other, and he realizes that the difference between the internet and the real world are negligible. In the end, it's all meaningless, because even though you might live forever, it might be the last night. Why is he even doing this – right, the asshole persona, asking girls for nudes, and then sharing them on Tumblr. He might not be able to set the world right, but he can fix himself. Maybe. He thinks. He's about to try.

• “III. Life: The Biggest Troll”

In this final song, Gambino gets hit with a big truth – Fight Club Style. He wasn't just Donald Glover, and he wasn't just Childish Gambino. He was, and is, both. At this point, they're so similar that Bino can't even tell them apart. He's lost in his own mind. Everything that he's thought about himself is a lie. Life has trolled him hard. There's no difference. Everything's a lie. You can't do it all yourself.

Then..

He meets the girl. They fall in love. And then he asks her to help him change. She.. refuses. She says he needs to fix himself first. The thing is, he's tried. He knows he can't. He can't enact meaningful change in the world, because he doesn't know who he is enough to have people listen to him any more. That's the joke. He comes back from the dead to learn about himself, from the one person who can teach him about that, and she refuses. That's the joke. But now, CG's here. Jhene's here. And we, the audience, are here. And CG asks us to help.

How can you help?

Because the Internet.

It's an answer to a different question. It's a question that doesn't have an answer. The joke's on us, because we're here, we stayed, and Gambino gave us the answer. It was the same answer he got, to any question he asked. And in the end, we all got tricked.

Does that matter though? Probably not. I think, if I had to say what about Life: The Biggest Troll is the final part of the story circle, the change, it's that Bino acknowledges that there's no change. Change is just something that happens to sand dunes. It's something that happens. All we do as people is cover up the parts we don't like. There's no bringing stuff up. And if that's the story Bino's telling, it makes sense.

So that was my close reading of Because the Internet. Please make fun of it. Or share it. Do whatever you want with it. I just wanted to let you know what I gathered from it.

Incidentally, I worked harder on this than I have my last 4 papers. It's longer than the last 2 of them combined. Jesus.

TL;DR – Read it. Please.

Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (born September 25, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, director, musician, and DJ. He performs music under the stage name Childish Gambino and as a DJ under the name mcDJ.

After coming to public attention for his work with Derrick Comedy while a student at New York University, he was hired at age 23 by Tina Fey as a writer for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. He later portrayed community college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom Community. He stars in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directs.^[1] For his work on Atlanta, Glover won various accolades, including Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series,^[2] and Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.^[3] In film, Glover has appeared in Mystery Team (2009), The Lazarus Effect, Magic Mike XXL, The Martian (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and as the young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).^[4] Glover starred in and produced his own short film, Guava Island (2019). He will also provide the voice of the adult Simba in a remake of the Disney film The Lion King (2019).

After several self-released albums and mixtapes, Glover signed to Glassnote Records in 2011.^[5] He released his first studio album, Camp, on November 15, 2011, to generally positive reviews. His second studio album, Because the Internet, was released on December 10, 2013.^[6] Glover's third album, 'Awaken, My Love!', was released on December 2, 2016, spawning the single 'Redbone', which peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100,^[7] and eventually earned him a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance. In 2017, Glover was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.^[8] In May 2018, Glover released the song and video for 'This Is America', which debuted at number-one on the Hot 100. The song was nominated and won four Grammy Awards at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Music Video.^[9] In early July 2018, Glover's EP Summer Pack was released which included the Grammy nominated for Best R&B Song song 'Feels Like Summer'.^[10]

• 2Career
  • 2.42018: Continued musical and acting success
• 8Filmography

Early life

Donald McKinley Glover Jr.^[11] was born on September 25, 1983 at Edwards Air Force Base, California.^[12] He was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly (née Smith),^[13] is a retired daycare provider, and his father, Donald Glover Sr.,^[14] was a retired postal worker.^[15] His parents also served as foster parents for 14 years. Glover was raised as a Jehovah's Witness.^[12][16] His younger brother, Stephen, would later become a writer and producer who collaborates with him.^[17] He also has a sister named Brianne.^[18] Glover attended Lakeside High School and DeKalb School of the Arts, and was voted 'Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons' in his high school yearbook.^[19][20] In 2006, he graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Dramatic Writing.^[21] While at Tisch, he self-produced the independent mixtapeThe Younger I Get, which was not released and was later disowned by Glover for being the 'too-raw ramblings' of what he calls a 'decrepit Drake'.^[22] He also began DJing and producing electronic music under the moniker MC D—later as mcDJ^[23]—remixing Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois (2005).^[24]

Career

2006–2010: Derrick Comedy, Community, and mixtapes

In 2006, Glover was contacted by producer David Miner, to whom he sent writing samples including a spec script that he had written for The Simpsons. Miner and Tina Fey were impressed by Glover's work and invited him to become a writer for 30 Rock, an NBC sitcom. Shortly after he was contacted by a close personal friend in the music industry. He was given the chance to sing and produce music by industry insider Jonny Music.^[15][20] Glover was a writer for 30 Rock from 2006 to 2009, where he also had occasional cameo appearances. He was presented the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season.^[25] Glover's musical stage name, Childish Gambino, came from the Wu-Tang Clan's name generator.^[26][27] In June 2008, he released the independent mixtapeSick Boi.^[22] In 2008, Glover unsuccessfully auditioned to play PresidentBarack Obama on the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live;^[28] the role went to cast member Fred Armisen.^[29] Glover also became a member of the sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy, having appeared in their sketches on YouTube since 2006, along with Dominic Dierkes, Meggie McFadden, DC Pierson, and Dan Eckman. The group wrote and starred in a feature-length film, Mystery Team, released in theaters in 2009.^[30]Bobby Moynihan and Aubrey Plaza also starred in the film alongside Glover.

Glover became known to a wider audience with Dan Harmon's NBC sitcom Community, which premiered in September 2009. Glover played Troy Barnes, a former high school star quarterback who quickly abandons his former jock mentality and embraces his nerdy, childish side as the result of his friendship with Abed Nadir (played by Danny Pudi).^[31] Glover did not return as a full-time cast member for the show's fifth season, appearing in the first five of the season's 13 episodes.^[32] Despite speculation that he was leaving to pursue his rap career as Childish Gambino, a series of hand-written notes that Glover posted to Instagram revealed that his reasons were more personal, citing a need for projects that offered him more independence as he worked through some personal issues.^[33] Although Harmon approached Glover about returning to the show for its sixth season, Glover declined, stating both show and audience would be better served by the closure of his character omitted from the story.^[34]

In September 2009, he released his second mixtape Poindexter.^[22] A pair of mixtapes, titled I Am Just a Rapper and I Am Just A Rapper 2, were released in close succession in 2010 and followed that July by his fifth mixtape Culdesac.^[35] In March 2010, Glover performed a 30-minute set on the stand-up showcase program Comedy Central Presents.^[36]

In May 2010, a fan suggested Glover for the role of Peter Parker in the then-upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man film, encouraging his supporters to retweet the hashtag '#donald4spiderman'.^[37] The campaign, originally started to see how far social networking could carry a message, quickly gained a large following.^[38] The call for Glover to be allowed to audition for the role was supported by Spider-Man creator Stan Lee.^[39] Glover was not given an audition and the role instead went to Andrew Garfield. He later revealed that he was never contacted for the role by anyone from Sony Pictures. Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis, who announced Miles Morales, an African-American version of Spider-Man, a year later, said he had conceived of the character before Glover's campaign went viral.^[40] Bendis gave credit to Glover for influencing the new hero's looks for Spider-Man; Bendis has said, 'I saw him in the costume [on Community] and thought, 'I would like to read that book.''^[41] Glover later voiced this incarnation of Spider-Man on the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series.^[42] Glover received the Rising Comedy Star award at the Just for Laughs festival in July 2010 and was featured in Gap's 2010 holiday advertising campaign.^[43][44]

2011–2014: Camp and Because the Internet

His first extended play, titled EP, was released as a free digital download in March 2011.^[45] A music video for the song 'Freaks and Geeks' was released in that month and Glover hosted the mtvU Woodie Awards, held live at South By Southwest.^[46][47] Glover commenced his nationwide IAMDONALD Tour in April.^[46] The tour was a one-man live show that consisted of rap, comedy, and video segments.^[46][48] Glover appeared at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival as both Childish Gambino and as a comedian, performing a set with Bill Bailey.^[49] His one-hour stand-up special, Weirdo, aired on Comedy Central in November 2011.^[50] Glover worked with friend and film composer Ludwig Göransson on his debut studio album throughout 2011.^[51] Prior to its release, Glover signed to Glassnote Records and embarked on The Sign-Up Tour.^[52] The album, Camp, was released on November 15, 2011, backed by his debut single 'Bonfire' and 'Heartbeat', which peaked at number 18 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and number 54 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.^[53]Camp debuted at number eleven on the Billboard 200, selling 52,000 copies in the first week,^[54] and was generally well received by critics,^[55] with PopMatters writer Steve Lepore finding it to be 'undoubtedly one of the best records of any genre to come out in 2011'.^[56] His Camp Gambino tour was scheduled to commence in March 2012,^[57] but was postponed to April after fracturing his foot.^[58]

Glover released the songs 'Eat Your Vegetables' and 'Fuck Your Blog' through his website in April and May.^[59] Throughout May and June, he premiered tracks from his sixth mixtape, Royalty, which was released as a free digital download in July. The album featured several artists, including his brother Stephen, under the alias Steve G. Lover III.^[60] The single 'Trouble' by British artist Leona Lewis from her album Glassheart (2012) featured Gambino with a guest rap performance. The song peaked at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart, making it his first UK top 10 single.^[61] In November 2012, Ludwig Göransson said he and Glover were in his studio coming up with new ideas for the next album which was to be 'bigger' and 'with more people involved.'^[62] In 2013, Glover signed on to create a music-themed show for FX titled Atlanta which he would star in, write, and executive produce. Consequently, Glover decided to reduce his work for NBC, and only appeared in the first five episodes of Community's fifth season.^[63] Although several networks were interested in picking up his half-hour comedy, he ultimately picked FX due to their willingness to work around his touring schedule.^[63] Glover appeared in a supporting role in the romantic comedy The To Do List (2013) and also guest starred in two episodes of the comedy-drama television series Girls in early 2013, as a Republican who is the love interest to Lena Dunham's character.^[64][65]

Recording for his second studio album, Because the Internet, finished in October 2013 and it was released in December,^[66][67] debuting at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart.^[53]Because the Internet yielded the singles '3005', 'Crawl' and 'Sweatpants'. '3005' peaked at number 8 on the UK R&B Chart and 64 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[53] To promote the album, the short film Clapping for the Wrong Reasons, written by and starring Glover, was released prior to the album's release and serves as its prelude. Additionally, a 72-page screenplay designed to sync up with the album was also released.^[68]Because The Internet has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipping over 500,000 copies.^[69] From February to May 2014, he embarked on The Deep Web Tour.^[70] The Recording Industry Association of America certified 'Heartbeat' gold in June 2014–making it Glover's first gold certification.^[71]

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Glover directed the music video for the song 'The Pressure' by Jhené Aiko, whose previous single, 'Bed Peace', had featured a guest appearance by Glover.^[72] On October 2, he released a mixtape titled STN MTN and the following day an EP titled Kauai, which spawned the single 'Sober'. While STN MTN was a free download, the proceeds of Kauai went to changing the policies for body worn video policing equipment and to maintaining and preserving Kauai island.^[73] Glover described them as a joint project and the 'first concept mixtape ever' that continues the story told in Camp and Because the Internet.^[74] At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, Glover received his first Grammy nominations for Best Rap Album for Because the Internet and Best Rap Performance for '3005'.^[6]

2015–17: Film roles, Atlanta, and 'Awaken, My Love!'

Glover appeared in three films in 2015. In the science fiction horror The Lazarus Effect, he played a scientist working with a team of researchers who brings a member of the team back to life with consequences.^[75] Glover played a singer in the comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL and performed a cover of the Bruno Mars song 'Marry You' in the film, which was included in the soundtrack.^[76] His final release of the year, Ridley Scott's science fiction The Martian, featured Glover as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrodynamicist who formulates a maneuver to help rescue an astronaut (played by Matt Damon) stranded on Mars.^[77] Glover contributed to the soundtrack of Creed (2015) – a film in the Rocky film series which was composed by Ludwig Göransson – providing vocals to the song 'Waiting For My Moment' and co-wrote another titled 'Breathe'.^[78]

FX ordered the pilot of Glover's show Atlanta to a 10-episode season in October 2015 and it premiered on September 6, 2016 to widespread critical acclaim.^[79][80][81] Glover writes, occasionally directs, executive produces, and stars in the series as Earnest 'Earn' Marks, a Princeton dropout who manages his rapper cousin as they navigate their way in the Atlanta rap scene.^[82] For his work on the show, Glover has been awarded various accolades, including Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, making him the first black person to win an Emmy for the latter category.^[3][83][84] Due to the success of the series, FX signed Glover to an exclusive deal to create and develop more shows for the network. The first of these shows, an animated series featuring the Marvel Comics character Deadpool, written and executive produced by Glover and his brother Stephen, was set to premiere in 2018,^[85] but was later canceled due to creative differences.^[86] Glover later posted an unofficial and unproduced script to his Twitter account, stating he wasn't 'too busy to work on Deadpool,' shutting down media speculations.^[87]

In September 2016, Glover held three performances – known as the 'Pharos Experience' – in Joshua Tree, California, where he debuted songs from his third studio album 'Awaken, My Love!'.^[88] The album was released in December, charting at number five on the Billboard 200 and it was later certified platinum accumulating 1,000,000 in album-equivalent units.^[89][53][69] Considered a bold departure from his usual hip hop style as it primarily featured Glover singing rather than rapping, it saw him draw influences from psychedelic soul, funk and R&B music,^[90][91] particularly of the funk band Funkadelic.^[92]'Awaken, My Love!' produced the singles 'Me and Your Mama', 'Redbone' (which peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100), and 'Terrified'.^[7] Its vinyl release featured a virtual reality headset and an accompanying app that allowed owners access to virtual reality live performances from the Pharos Experience.^[93] The album was positively received by music critics and was nominated for both the 2018 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Urban Contemporary Album, while 'Redbone' won for Best Traditional R&B Performance and received nominations for Record of the Year and Best R&B Song.^[94][95] Glover performed 'Terrified' at the award show's 60th ceremony.^[96]

Glover played Aaron Davis in the superhero film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Davis is the uncle of the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man, whom Glover had voiced in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series. The casting was described as 'a surprise treat for fans' by the film's director Jon Watts, aware of his 2010 campaign to play the superhero.^[97] In April 2017, Time named Glover to its annual '100 Most Influential People in the World.' Tina Fey wrote the entry on Glover, who she said 'embodies his generation's belief that people can be whatever they want and change what it is they want, at any time.'^[8]

Glover announced his intention to retire the Childish Gambino pseudonym in June 2017, telling the audience 'I'll see you for the last Gambino album' before walking off stage at the Governors Ball Music Festival.^[98] He further explained his decision in an interview, feeling his musical career was no longer 'necessary' and added 'There's nothing worse than like a third sequel' and 'I like it when something's good and when it comes back there's a reason to come back, there's a reason to do that.'^[99] He has yet to officially retire.

2018: Continued musical and acting success

Glover signed with RCA Records in January 2018, which Glover called 'a necessary change of pace'.^[100][101] In May 2018, he released a single titled 'This Is America' while performing dual hosting and musical duty on Saturday Night Live.^[101] The song debuted at number one, becoming both Glover's first number one and top ten single in the United States.^[102] It features him both singing and rapping, drawing influence from trap music.^[103] Its lyrics addressed a variety of topics including gun violence in the United States and being black in the United States,^[104] while its provocative video, directed by Japanese filmmaker and frequent collaborator Hiro Murai, featured Glover performing a series of shootings before breaking into dance.^[105]

Glover portrayed a young version of Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018); Calrissian was previously played by Billy Dee Williams in two films in the original Star Wars trilogy.^[106] Glover will star in the upcoming 2019 remake of the epic musical Disney film The Lion King (1994) as the voice of Simba, the titular protagonist and lion prince turned king.^[107] Glover said that '[The Lion King is] a timeless story, but [he thinks] the way Favreau has constructed it, it’s a very timely story as well' and said that '[he] just wanted to be a part of a global good'.^[108]Glover said that the film will focus more on Simba's time growing-up than the original film did, stating that '[Jon] was very keen in making sure we saw [Simba's] transition from boy to man and how hard that can be when there's been a deep trauma'.^[108]JD McCrary, who plays young Simba in the film, said that 'Donald Glover is so talented that [he] actually did have to take it into consideration, because if Simba is going to grow up to be some sort of figure and you know of it, you have to keep that motive'.^[108]

On July 11, 2018, Glover released the EP Summer Pack which contained the songs 'Summertime Magic' and 'Feels Like Summer', the former of which is the lead single from Glover's forthcoming fourth studio album.^[109][110] The music video for 'Feels Like Summer' was released on September 1, 2018, and features cartoon cameos from numerous prominent rappers and R&B vocalists. The video is meant to symbolize Glover's departure from the rap community^[111] and depicts his animated rendition as he walks down a neighborhood street, passing by several big names like Will Smith, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne, and Michael Jackson.^[112]

In August 2018, it had been reported that Glover had been filming a secret project in Cuba titled Guava Island throughout that summer alongside Rihanna. The exact details of the project were unknown.^[113] A trailer for the project premiered on November 24, 2018 at the PHAROS festival in New Zealand.^[114]

In September 2018, Glover made two previously unreleased songs, 'Algorhythm' and 'All Night', exclusively available to fans who bought tickets to his This Is America Tour.^[115]

In December 2018, Glover was featured in 21 Savage's album I Am > I Was on the track 'Monster' but wasn't credited.^[116] It was on this track that Glover talks about what is wrong with the music industry and why he wants to quit music. In the song, Glover raps 'Might pull out, the game so weak', 'If you're rapping for money you silly', and even 'Power, the money, and the fame make a monster'. It is here he talks about being sick of the music industry and what it does to the people in it.^[116]

In February 2019, 'This is America' won a Grammy for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. It was the first rap song to win Record of the Year.^[117] It had also won Grammys for two other categories, Best Music Video and Best Rap/Sung Performance.^[118]

2019–present: Guava Island

Guava Island was released on April 13, 2019, by Amazon Studios through Amazon Prime Video. It stars Glover and Rihanna in the lead roles. It premiered at Coachella and was streamed in its entirety on their YouTube page and Twitch.^[119] It was available to view for free for 18 hours on the Amazon Prime Video app.^[120] Glover is co-headlining at the event as Childish Gambino. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 77% based on reviews from 26 critics, with an average rating of 6.46/10.^[11] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 6 reviews, indicating 'generally favorable' reviews.^[12]

On April 18, 2019, Glover and Adidas Originals officially announce three new Adidas shoes along with the release of a series of advertisements/short films starring comedian Mo'Nique and a cameo of professional skateboarder Na-Kel Smith. It was directed by Ibra Ake and produced by Sylvia M. Zakhary, Wolf Taylor, Fam Rothstein, and Stephen Glover. The partnership is coined 'Donald Glover Presents' and it began in September 2018. The shoes was available globally on April 26.^{[121][122][123]}

Glover premiered a new song, 'Algorythm', in partnership with app PHAROS AR – a new augmented reality application released on April 24, to Android and iOS users.^[124]

Influences

In an interview with The Guardian Glover stated, 'I'm influenced by LCD Soundsystem as much as Ghostface Killah. A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage Against the Machine show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds. Kids just want to go nuts, Odd Future know that. People want to experience something physical.'^[125] Glover also cites hip hop duo Outkast and trio Migos,^[126][127] and funk band Funkadelic as being influences.^[128]

Glover has also influenced a number of younger musicians and actors alike. Rapper Vince Staples talks of Glover's ability to constantly reinvent himself while actor and writer Naren Weiss cites his versatility as a source of inspiration.^{[129][130][131]}

Personal life

Glover keeps his personal life very private and doesn’t post on social media often since 2014, only posting promotions. Glover expressed that he “felt like social media was making me less human, and I already didn’t feel that human.”^[132]

Glover announced in January 2017 that he and his girlfriend, Michelle White,^[133] had a son named Legend in early 2016.^{[134][135][136]} In September, he announced that he and White were expecting a second son,^[137] who was born in January 2018.^[138]

On December 17, 2018, during the final stop for the This is America Tour, Glover announced that his father, Donald Glover Sr., had died. He said, 'I lost my father a couple weeks ago and I wanted to play him some of the new songs but he didn't want to hear them, because he was like, 'I know they're going to be great.'^[139][140]

Awards

Discography

• Camp (2011)
• Because the Internet (2013)
• 'Awaken, My Love!' (2016)

Tours

• IAMDONALD Tour (2011)
• The Sign-Up Tour (2011)
• Camp Gambino Tour (2012)
• Deep Web Tour (2014)
• This Is America Tour (2018)

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Web

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External links

• Official website
• Donald Glover on Instagram
• Childish Gambino at SoundCloud
• Donald Glover on IMDb
• 2018 Profile of Glover on BBC Radio Four