Donald Glover Explains Why He's Retiring Childish Gambino
Donald Glover Explains Why He’s Retiring The Childish Gambino Moniker
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Bruce Goodwin II
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July 18, 2024
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“I’m not 25 anymore, standing in front of a boulder like, ‘This has to move.’ You give what you can, but there’s beauty everywhere in every moment. You don’t have to build it. You don’t have to search for it,” he said. “When I put my son on my shoulders, I feel deep joy. That’s real. No one on their deathbed is going to look back and say, ‘Thank God I avoided being cringe.’”
But before he retires the alter ego for good, he’s delivering Bando Stone & the New World and explains that with the album, he hopes to “play big rooms and have big, anthemic songs that fill those rooms, so that people feel a sense of togetherness.” Glover has been using the name since at least 2008 when he released his mixtape, Sick Boi. He credits the Childish Gambino name to simply entering his real name into a Wu-Tang name generator, and that’s what popped out. He told Jimmy Fallon in 2011 that he did it when he was a sophomore in college hanging with his friends. They all entered their names, and he knew he was onto something. “We were all hanging out, chilling and drinking, and then we were like, ‘Oh, Wu-Tang name generator, let’s put our name in.’ And we’re putting them all in, and they’re all funny and stuff, and then mine came up, and I was like, ‘you guys, it’s not funny anymore. This is something big.’ I just really liked it.”2.
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Donald Glover Explains Why He’s Retiring The Childish Gambino Moniker was originally published on cassiuslife.com
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