Donald Glover may be putting his Childish Gambino alter ego on ice soon, but he’s clearly making the most of his remaining time with his acclaimed musical project. The release of “This Is America,” in particular, is a career highlight, from its fantastic music video to the song itself, which is both very good and …
It’s been about a month since Childish Gambino released the stunning, Hiro Murai-directed music video for “This Is America.” In that time, the internet has mostly just concerned itself with trying to figure out what each element of the video means, making sense of disorienting images that, in aggregate, function like…
Donald Glover/Childish Gambino made a resoundingly successful grab for the internet’s often-fleeting attention this weekend, compounding a great SNL performance with the release of his much-talked-about new music video, “This Is America.” The video—which features Glover cheerfully strutting through a violence-filled…
Following a stellar performance as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, Donald Glover capped off the weekend by dropping a surprise Childish Gambino track that pretty much guaranteed he’d be dominating the trending topics on Twitter. The Hiro Murai-directed video for “This Is America” is a…
Donald Glover did a predictably good job on Saturday Night Live last night, since he’s good at everything he does already, but if him hosting, performing as the musical guest, and then releasing a video for his new single “This Is America” wasn’t enough Donald Glover for you this weekend, NBC has just released an SNL …
“It’s so great to be back here, especially now that I’m rich.”
Refusing to rest on the laurels of merely hosting and serving as musical guest on tonight’s installment of Saturday Night Live, Donald Glover decided to really show us poor mere mortals up this evening, suddenly dropping a new single and video from his musical alter ego, Childish Gambino, onto the internet just a few…
Stepping into the same rarefied air once occupied by Desi Arnaz, MC Hammer, and J-Lo, Donald Glover has been announced as the host and musical guest for an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live. Glover will host the show’s May 5 installment, with his rap persona Childish Gambino providing the night’s musical…
Donald Glover is already committed to hanging up his Childish Gambino musical persona at some point in the near future, at which point he’ll most likely embark on a new creative journey that will be similarly acclaimed and unstoppable. Before that, though, Glover is going on tour as Childish Gambino with hip-hop duo…
Some nights, The Late Show’s booking power provides a roller coaster for the human spirit. On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert opened up on a serious high note, with a funny, thoughtful interview with Donald Glover in advance of tomorrow’s Atlanta season premiere. And that’s before Colbert sprung the lovely surprise of that…
If all you saw was the reaction on Twitter yesterday, you would think Disney just released the trailer for a new movie called Young Lando And His Amazing Fur Coat. In reality, they released the first trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, in which Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian completely steals the show despite…
Bad news, “Redbone” lovers—despite his Grammy win Sunday night, Donald Glover still plans to retire his Childish Gambino musical persona.
Like the holidays, awards season is fully underway. Most ceremonies won’t be held until after the new year, but you can already start placing your bets (we don’t actually advocate gambling, but everything else about this year has been a crapshoot) on the 2018 Grammy winners. Variety has the complete list of nominees,…
Donald Glover has already announced that he’s planning to retire his Childish Gambino persona after one more album, and if he really is committed to following through on that, at least he’s planning to do some awesome shit on the way out. According to Billboard, Glover—as Childish Gambino—will be performing at Radio…
Just one day after announcing that the forthcoming Childish Gambino album would be his last, Donald Glover has told the Huffington Post—sorry, HuffPost—that he’s walking away from his musical alter ego entirely. The admission came during a promotional event for his hit FX dramedy, Atlanta, with Glover explaining that…
Since leaving Community in 2013, Donald Glover’s career has exploded much more than you’d expect for someone who was best known for appearing on a low-rated NBC sitcom, but going through that transition opened the door for him to make the Golden Globe-winning Atlanta, make a Deadpool show, star in the live-action Lion…
Earlier this month, Donald Glover won a Golden Globe for his performance in Atlanta, the sometimes-surreal comedy which he also produced, directed and created. New episodes of the show, which also won a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy, won’t come until 2018, but Glover’s already set to make more television at…
The Governors Ball Music Festival has just announced this year’s full lineup, which Chance The Rapper, Tool, and Phoenix will headline. That all sounds pretty great, and we’ll share the rest of the performers below, but we also want to remind the younger festival attendees that, while tickets might go on sale this…
It is hard to say whether it was always a game of chess, but if it were, Childish Gambino, a.k.a. Donald Glover, had the game plan all along. How does one go from being known as a comedian, a writer on 30 Rock, and an actor on Community to a multifaceted star in the truest sense? Take a hiatus from comedy to focus on…
Though he spent the last few months helping Paper Boi get that paper on FX’s Atlanta, Donald Glover seems to finally be ready to get back into Childish Gambino mode. This morning, we reported that he had revealed the art for an upcoming album called Awaken, My Love!, and now he has released the first track from that…
