{"id":12717,"date":"2023-04-09T18:13:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/09\/donald-glover-aka-childish-gambino-says-this-is-america-was-a-drake-diss-track-originally-just-jared-entertainment-news-and-celebrity-photos\/"},"modified":"2023-04-09T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T18:13:15","slug":"donald-glover-aka-childish-gambino-says-this-is-america-was-a-drake-diss-track-originally-just-jared-entertainment-news-and-celebrity-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/09\/donald-glover-aka-childish-gambino-says-this-is-america-was-a-drake-diss-track-originally-just-jared-entertainment-news-and-celebrity-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Glover, AKA Childish Gambino, Says \u2018This Is America\u2019 Was a Drake Diss Track Originally | Just Jared: Entertainment News and Celebrity Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-glover\/\" title=\"Donald Glover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald Glover<\/strong><\/a>, otherwise known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/childish-gambino\/\" title=\"Childish Gambino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Childish Gambino<\/strong><\/a>, is revealing details about \u201cThis Is America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>However, it actually started as something less serious: a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/drake\/\" title=\"Drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Drake<\/strong><\/a> diss track.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-1907842\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the idea three years before. I told [director] <strong>Hiro [Murai]<\/strong> the idea, and he\u2019s like, \u2018I really want to do that.\u2019\u2026 The idea for the song started as a joke,\u201d he said to<em> GQ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be completely honest, \u2018This is America\u2019 \u2014 that was all we had was that line. It started as a <strong>Drake<\/strong> diss, to be honest, as like a funny way of doing it. But then I was like, this s\u2013t sounds kind of hard though. So I was like, let me play with it,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>His feud with <strong>Drake <\/strong>started in 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/donald-glover-this-is-america-originally-drake-diss-track-mentoring-malia-obama-1235298386\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/donald-glover-this-is-america-originally-drake-diss-track-mentoring-malia-obama-1235298386\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when he said<\/a> during an Australian gig this his rapper alter ego was better than <strong>Drake<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/kendrick-lamar\/\" title=\"Kendrick Lamar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>ScHoolboy Q<\/strong> combined. The two have reportedly become friends in the years since.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/04\/04\/donald-glover-reveal-hes-working-with-malia-obama-on-her-debut-film-addresses-being-turned-down-for-snl-tyler-perrys-reaction-to-his-spoof-atlanta-season-3-criticism-more-in-gq-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working with <strong>Malia Obama <\/strong>on a film.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch him explain\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IXb9J187Wmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/04\/09\/donald-glover-aka-childish-gambino-says-this-is-america-was-a-drake-diss-track-originally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Glover, otherwise known as Childish Gambino, is revealing details about \u201cThis Is America.\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}