The music video for Jhené Aiko’s “The Pressure” was directed by Childish Gambino in 2014.
The music for Jhené Aiko‘s “The Pressure” from her debut studio album Souled Out, features her going through multiple relationship situations and the trials and tribulations of life in the video by going through scenes that fade to black into a new situation. Childish Gambino didn’t make a cameo in the music video but you can see some of his cinematic tastes in it.
Childish Gambino and Jhené Aiko collaborated on a few creative projects during 2012-2014, they collaborated on “Bed Peace” and “Pink Toes,” and Jhené made a cameo in his music video for “Telegraph Ave”.
Watch the Childish Gambino directed music video below.
Donald Glover will be dropping a new album and speaks on Atlanta season 3 and 4
Donald Glover hardly ever takes to social media to post anything. Today, however, it was different. Amid a crazy day for the rap world (RIP King Von) and the elections happening, it’s good to see Donald Glover speak on his creative works.
“Last music project was probably my best. but the one coming will be my biggest by far,” the artist formerly known as Childish Gambino said. “There’s a lot (of magic) comin,” he continued. “Ya’ll thought I was hot in 2018.
Glover also speaks on his FX series, Atlanta, which has two seasons and last premiered back in 2018.
How old is Childish Gambino? When is Childish Gambino’s birthday? When was Childish Gambino born?
Donald McKinley Glover Jr. aka Childish Gambino (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. Following several independently released albums and mixtapes, Glover signed with Glassnote Records in 2011. 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. His third album, Awaken, My Love!, was released on December 2, 2016, spawning the single “Redbone”, which peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually earned him a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance. In May 2018, Glover released the song and music video “This Is America”, which debuted at number-one on the Hot 100. The song 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. In early July 2018, his EP Summer Pack was released which included the Grammy-nominated Best R&B song “Feels Like Summer”.
After working on Derrick Comedy while studying at New York University, Glover was hired at age 23 by Tina Fey as a writer for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. He later rose to fame for portraying college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom Community. Since 2016, Glover stars in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directs. For his work on Atlanta, he won various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. In film acting, Childish Gambino has appeared in a number of commercially successful films including the supernatural horror The Lazarus Effect (2015), the comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL (2015), science fiction comedy The Martian (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and as the young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Glover starred in and produced his own short film, Guava Island (2019). He also provided the voice of adult Simba in the remake of the Disney film The Lion King (2019). In 2017, Glover was listed as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by TIME magazine.
Donald Glover, famously also known asChildish Gambinomakes a brief appearance in the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film Awesome, I Fuckin’ Shot That, which was directed by Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch under the alias Nathaniel Hörnblowér. The footage was from 2004 and at the time Gambino was 21 years old.
This was discovered by a Reddit user who noticed Gambino in the audience footage from 2004 at Madison Square Garden. Childish is seen rapping Beastie Boys’ “Three MC’s And One DJ.” from their 1998 album Hello Nasty.
The concert was at Madison Square garden, The Beastie Boys gave camcorders to 50 fans in the audience and had them film the event which ended up on Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That. Childish Gambino was a student at NYU during the time. 4 years later Donald Glover would start his rap career under the moniker Childish Gambino and release a mixtape title ‘Sick Boi‘.
A true renaissance man, Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino is a writer, actor, singer, and rapper with a one-of-a-kind sense of humor. He wrote for TV’s 30 Rock and starred on Community before taking bigger Hollywood roles. As a musician, his song “Redbone” took over the summer when Jordan Peele’s Get Out hit theaters, as well as his role on FX’s Atlanta. Here are 5 of his best movies so far.
Guava Island
This original musical number was a visual EP for “This is America” and the other songs he released as Childish Gambino around that time. It stars Rihanna and was filmed on location in Cuba as an Amazon Prime exclusive.
Spider-Man: Homecoming
In this 2017 superhero blockbuster, Donald Glover played Aaron Davis. For Marvel nerds, they know his character was Miles Morales’ uncle. Time will tell if he gets pulled back into the MCU in case they bring the Black Spider-Man to the big screen.
The Lion King
This role was more voice acting but it still counts. Donald Glover portrayed an adult Simba with ease and put a new spin on the music from the beloved Disney classic rebooted as a live action feature.
Weirdo
His early stand up is hilarious, as seen in this 2011 special. His jokes teeter on the absurd at times, sharing a perspective that sets him apart. Never one to shy away from embarrassing self-truths, his comedy is ironically universal in its uniqueness.
Solo: A Star Wars Story
How often do we get to see a Black man kick ass and take names in the Star Wars universe? His take on a young Lando Calrissian was priceless. It got even better when he mocked the fact on SNL. The good news is that Disney+ is supposedly rumored to create a TV spin-off starring Glover.
Childish Gambino (also known as Donald Glover), recorded parts of his 2013 sophomore album ‘Because The Internet’ on an iPhone. The album cuts “Flight of the Navigator,” ”Worldstar,” & “Telegraph Ave” all feature recordings from his iPhone.
According to Childish Gambino’s producer Ludwig Göransson, who made some verified annotations on the lyric website Genius, half of the vocals on “Flight of the Navigator,” were recorded on an iPhone saying: “Donald sang a melody into his iPhone, in fact all the vocals on the first half of the song are sung into his iPhone.”
Ludwig then revealed that on the albums second cut “Worldstar,” the tick used as a percussion is Ableton’s metronome recorded with an iPhone saying: “We needed something really hard and we came up with an idea to make a beat based on the metronome. I recorded Ableton’s click on my iPhone and then put a bunch of different [effects] on it.”
Lastly Göransson revealed on “Telegraph Ave,” Childish Gambino recorded the melody on his iPhone saying: “That vocal line gave it a very [indie] vibe, which was interesting, because the other sounds I use in the chorus are a bit more commercial and 2013 rap production sounding,”
‘Because The Internet’ was released on December 10, 2013 and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 charts.
How did Donald Glover come up with his rap alter-ego Childish Gambino? From an online Wu-Tang name generator.
Donald Glover confirmed in an interview with Fuse that his name came from The Wu-Tang Name Generator, he even spoke to RZA about it. The Wu-Tang Name Generator is a fun computer name app that creates you a rap name based on your real name. Donald entered his name into the generator and thus, Childish Gambino was born.
The Wu-Tang name generator was made in 2002 and if you actually type Donald Glover into the name generator and enter it in, Childish Gambino pops up. http://www.mess.be/inickgenwuname.php
Incase you want to create your own rap name, here is the link.
Childish Gambino surprised fans last weekend by dropping a link to stream his new album. Today, it finally arrives on all major streaming services.
Fans were pleased to see the album first appear on Gambino’s site “Donald Glovers Presents” but disappointed after it quickly disappeared. The music link was then replaced with a countdown clock set for 12am today.
The new album titled 3.15.20 includes a new tracklist with most songs labeled as timestamps.
