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. Keep reading to find out more… “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.
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