Glover, Jr was born at Edwards Air Force Base, California and raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly (Smith, is a retired daycare provider, and his father, Donald, Sr, is a retired postal worker. His parents also served as DeKalb County foster parents for 14 years. He was raised a Jehovah's Witness. He was voted "Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons" in his High School yearbook. Glover, Jr graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in dramatic writing in 2006.
From 2006 to 2009, Glover, Jr was a writer for the NBC series 30 Rock where he also had occasional cameo appearances. He was presented the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season. Glover, Jr's stage name, Childish Gambino, came from the Wu-Tang Clan's name generator. On June 5, 2008, he released an independent album, titled Sick Boi. Glover, Jr would then become a member of the sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy, along with Dominic Dierkes, Meggie McFadden, DC Pierson, and Dan Eckman. The group wrote and starred in a feature-length film, Mystery Team, released in theaters in 2009.
On September 17, 2009, Childish Gambino released the independent album Poindexter. A pair of mixtapes, titled I Am Just a Rapper and I Am Just A Rapper 2 were released, in close succession in 2010. Robert Scahill added his producing expertise helping with the majority of the tracks. The track listings for those mixtapes consist of the name of the song "he" raps, followed by the song he raps over. His second album, Culdesac, was set to be released on July 2, 2010, but a couple of last minute additions caused the album to be delayed for a day. The album was made available on July 3. Glover, Jr has stated in interviews that on Sick Boi and Poindexter he felt he had to hide behind gimmicks, such as pink hoodies, but with his subsequent projects, he has touched on more personal subject matter, including family, schoolyard bullying, troubled romantic relationships, suicidal thoughts and alcoholism. He has disowned his 2005 album, The Younger I Get, as the too-raw ramblings of what he calls a "decrepit."
Glover, Jr's stand-up special aired on Comedy Central on March 19, 2010. In May 2010, a fan suggested Glover, Jr for the role of Peter Parker in the then-upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man film, encouraging his supporters to retweet the hashtag "#donald4spiderman". The campaign, originally started to see how far social networking could carry a message, quickly gained a large following. The call for Glover to be allowed to audition for the role was supported by Spider-Man creator Stan Lee. Glover, Jr was not awarded an audition and the role instead went to Andrew Garfield. He would later reveal that he was never contacted by anyone from Sony Pictures for the role. Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis, who announced an African-American version of Spider-Man a year later, said he had conceived of the character before Glover, Jr's campaign went viral. Bendis gave credit to Glover for influencing the new hero's looks for Spider-man after seeing him dressed as Spider-Man on Community (a nod to the campaign), Bendis said, "I saw him in the costume and thought, 'I would like to read that book.'" Glover, Jr would later voice this incarnation of Spider-Man on the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series.
Glover, Jr received the Rising Comedy Star award at the Just for Laughs festival in July 2010. Glover, Jr was featured in Gap's 2010 Holiday ad campaign. He DJs and produces electronic music under the moniker "mcDJ" (pronounced "M-C-D-J"). His music is often made available for free download via his website.
On December 1, 2010, Glover, Jr released the first track off of his EP titled "Be Alone". He released the next track, "Freaks and Geeks", as well as a five-song track list, on February 11, 2011. On February 25, Glover, Jr released the dates for the IAMDONALD tour and also his very first music video for "Freaks and Geeks". The music video was shot by Dan Eckman, the director of the Derrick Comedy troupe. This song was later used in an Adidas commercial featuring Dwight Howard. On March 8, 2011 Glover, Jr released the EP via his official website.
On March 16, 2011, Glover, Jr hosted the mtvU Woodie Awards held live at South By Southwest. On March 24, 2011, Glover, Jr taped his one-hour comedy special Weirdo for Comedy Central; it aired on November 19.
Glover, Jr appeared at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 9 in the 'This Tent' as Childish Gambino and June 11 at 'The Comedy Theater' with Bill Bailey performing stand up. Comedy Central streamed the comedy live on their website.
On May 4, 2011, in an interview with TheHipHopUpdate, Gambino revealed that he was working on an LP, to be released in September. On July 25, 2011, Glover, Jr announced that his new album would be titled Camp. On October 8, during his Orlando, Florida concert, he announced Camp would be released on November 15, 2011. Glover, Jr worked with friend and film composer Ludwig Göransson on the debut album. On August 20, 2011, at the Los Angeles Rock The Bells concert, he gave an interview to AllHipHop.com, and he announced to the crowd that he had signed with Glassnote Records. On September 20, his first official single, "Bonfire", was released.
The IAMDONALD tour made 24 stops in 34 days, beginning with Ames, Iowa, on April 16, and finishing with Minneapolis on May 19. In between, this included stops at music venues in Las Vegas, Houston, Washington, and Atlanta. The tour was a one-man live show that consisted of rap, comedy, and video segments.
The Sign-Up Tour was Glover, Jr's next pre-album tour. He visited 11 cities over the course of 38 days in October and November 2011. Chidlish G made a website for the tour called Camp Gambino on November 19, four days after his album released. The tour featured special guest Danny Brown and made 20 stops during the course of 32 days along a dates in California in December. On March 14, 2012, several dates on the CAMP tour were postponed due to a fractured foot Childish suffered on March 10, while performing in Tampa, Florida. The tour began in Austin, Texas on April 5 and ended August 10 in Hollywood, California.
On January 11, 2012, Childish Gambino announced on his website that a new mixtape would be coming out soon. On April 2, he released a new song, "Eat Your Vegetables", through his website. On May 14, Funkmaster Flex premiered "Unnecessary," featuring Schoolboy Q. On May 16, Gambino released "We Ain't Them" through his website, produced by himself and frequent collaborator Ludwig. On May 22, Glover, Jr appeared on Das Racist's radio show "Chillin' Island" where he premiered a new song, "Tell Me," which featured Himanshu Suri, aka Heems from Das Racist. On May 26, Glover released "Black Faces", featuring Nipsey Hussle and produced by Boi-1da. On May 30, he released a third track, "Silk Pillow," featuring Beck and produced by both Glover, Jr and Beck. On June 25, he revealed that the mixtape was to be released on July 4, 2012. On June 26, Glover, Jr premiered another new track, on Sway in the Morning (on Shade 45), entitled "One Up," featuring his brother, Steve G. Lover. That same day, he stated that the mixtape would be titled Royalty despite previous statements that it would not be called that. On July 4, 2012, he released Royalty for free via digital download. On July 7, 2012, Gambino released the track, "Body," featuring Prodigy, which did not make the cut for the mixtape. On July 24, 2012, he released the music video for "Fire Fly" through his VEVO account on YouTube.
On August 21, 2012, BBC Radio 1 premiered Leona Lewis' new song, "Trouble" off her upcoming album Glassheart, which features Childish Gambino. The song was available for purchase via iTunes on October 7, and peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart the following week, making it his first UK top 10 single. On November 4, 2012 Ludwig Göransson said in an interview with Portable that he and Gambino were in his studio coming up with new ideas for the next album which was to be "bigger" and "with more people involved."
In 2013, Glover, Jr signed on to create a music-themed show for FX titled Atlanta in which he will star, write, and executive produce. Consequently, he decided to reduce his work for NBC, and only appears in the first five episodes of Community's 13-episode fifth season. Although many TV stations were interested in picking up his half-hour comedy, he ultimately picked FX due to their willingness to work around his touring schedule.
On October 6, 2013, he announced on Twitter that his second studio album was completed. He further announced this at Homecoming Week at Penn State University, stating “I got a new album coming out soon, so this is the last time we’re gonna play a lot of this shit.” On October 8, 2013, he announced its title as Because the Internet and revealed that it would be released in December 2013. On October 21, 2013, Glover, Jr released the first single "3005", and announced a release date for the album as December 10, 2013. On February 15, 2014, the rapper launched his Deep Web Tour in the UK. On February 27, Childish Gambino was scheduled to begin the United States portion of his tour with a gig at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California. On June 6, 2014, RIAA certified Heartbeat Gold - making it Glover's first certification, and then on July 18, 2014, RIAA also certified 3005 Gold, making it Glover's second certification.
On October 2, 2014, he released a new mixtape titled STN MTN, and the next day he released an EP titled Kauai. The mixtape and the EP follow the story that was last told in Because The Internet and are meant to be a joint project instead of separate projects.
On October 10, 2014, Ubisoft revealed that they had collaborated with Glover, Jr to incorporate his song, "Crawl" into Far Cry 4.
On December 5, 2014 Glover, Jr was nominated for two Grammy Awards. He was a contender for Best Rap Album for Because The Internet (Glassnote Records) and Best Rap Performance for his single, “3005.”
On March 21, 2015 Glover, Jr won an mtvU Woodies Award for Best Video Woodie for the song "Sober" from the Kauai EP.
As of February 2016, Because the Internet has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipping over 500,000 copies.
Glover's third album, Awaken, My Love!, spawned the single "Redbone", which peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually earned him his first Grammy Award. In 2018, Glover released "This Is America", which debuted at number-one on the Hot 100, and won four Grammy Awards, including for Song and Record of the Year.[13] Glover's fourth album, 3.15.20, was released in 2020.[14]
Pop Thieves
Childish Gambino Lyrics
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I can't explain my feel, oh
Now that we have found this love, baby
I've never felt this real, oh
Loving you is all I know, baby
You make me feel so high, oh no
I just wanna feel your love, baby
You know I'm down to ride, oh no no
When your song is on and your hand's in mine
And I'm holding you tight, make it feel good
Let me hold it down, I'm so glad we found
It's whatever you like, make it feel good
Make it feel good, make it feel good, alright
Make it feel good, make it feel good
Make it feel good, make it feel good, alright
Make it feel good, make it feel good
Now that we have found this love, baby
These haters can't say shit (shit), oh
I know sometimes it's hard when I'm so far
I know you miss this di-love
Let's go somewhere far away, baby
Where we don't need no phone, oh
'Cause now that we have found this love, baby
You'll never be alone, oh oh
When your song is on and your hand's in mine
And I'm holding you tight, make it feel good
Let me hold it down, I'm so glad we found
It's whatever you like, make it feel good
Make it feel good (please don't leave me now)
Make it feel good, alright (in my home)
Make it feel good, make it feel good (in my home, in my my home)
Make it feel good, make it feel good, alright (all that I want is you)
Make it feel good, make it feel good (oh, yeah)
All my friends are telling me, oh
You need to slow it down, yeah
But I'm so tired of wasting all this time
I need your love right now
Give it to me like oh, oh, yeah
All that I want now (oh, yeah), yeah
All that I want now (yeah)
(Oh) give it to me now, oh
(Give it to me now, oh) oh, yeah
Give it to me like
Make you feel good, make you feel good, alright
Make you feel good, make you feel good
Make you feel good, make you feel good, alright
Make you feel good, make you feel good
I used to walk on the beach at night
I remember
The best time was when, well, me and you
We got our friends and we got a tent
We slept in it, not the whole night, but just enough time
Magic happened, nothing was born luckily
It's up to me, but then we left
The times have changed
The pleasures that I feel
They say you never say never, it's real
Electric eels in the water, we should probably not go deep
I like to stare at you and look at you when you sleep
I'd like to write a poem for you, leave it for you in your room
Under the moon, romance
Hold on, brother
The song “Pop Thieves (Make It Feel Good)” by Childish Gambino focuses on the pure love and connection between two people. The repetition of the phrase, “Now that we have found this love, baby”, highlights the intensity of the emotions being experienced. Gambino explains how the love he has found makes him feel real and high, showing that this love is elevating him to a new level of consciousness. He continuously refers to the idea of “making it feel good”, which alludes to pleasure and happiness in the relationship.
Gambino describes how holding hands with his partner, listening to music, and being with each other makes everything feel alright. The lines “All my friends are telling me, oh You need to slow it down, yeah” demonstrate that the relationship may be moving too fast which leads Gambino to feel he needs the connection even more. He wants to escape from society’s constraints and go somewhere where they wouldn’t need a phone, as their love is all they need. In the bridge, Gambino reminisces about his past memories with his partner on the beach, how they slept in the tent and the magic that ensued. He concludes the song with the repeated phrase “make you feel good”, emphasising his desire to bring happiness to his partner’s life and heighten the love between them.
Line by Line Meaning
Now that we have found this love, baby
Having love in our lives makes everything better and I'm grateful for it
I can't explain my feel, oh
I'm unable to describe the happiness you bring me
I've never felt this real, oh
Being with you is one of the most authentic and real experiences I've ever had
Loving you is all I know, baby
My love for you knows no bounds and is what I do best
You make me feel so high, oh no
Simply being in your presence elevates me to new heights.
I just wanna feel your love, baby
Being loved by you is all I want in this world.
You know I'm down to ride, oh no no
Whatever happens, I'm in this for the long haul with you.
When your song is on and your hand's in mine
The way your hand feels in mine while your favorite song plays is a feeling I will never tire of.
And I'm holding you tight, make it feel good
I hold you tight because it feels good and I want you to feel that good too.
Let me hold it down, I'm so glad we found
I'm grateful we found love and will do whatever it takes to keep it strong.
It's whatever you like, make it feel good
We'll do what makes us happy because that's what love is about - making each other feel good.
Now that we have found this love, baby
Having love in our lives makes everything better and I'm grateful for it.
These haters can't say shit (shit), oh
We are so in love that nothing negative anyone says about us can bring us down.
I know you miss this di-love
I know you miss the love we share when we're apart.
Let's go somewhere far away, baby
Let's go on an adventure together and escape from the mundane everyday life.
Where we don't need no phone, oh
Let's go to a place where we don't have to rely on technology to be happy.
You'll never be alone, oh oh
I'll always be there for you and you'll never feel lonely with me.
All my friends are telling me, oh
My friends are cautioning me to take things slow.
You need to slow it down, yeah
They think I'm moving too fast in our relationship.
But I'm so tired of wasting all this time
I don't want to waste any more time not being with you.
I need your love right now
I want your love more than anything else, right now.
Give it to me like oh, oh, yeah
Show me your love, the love that only you can give.
All that I want now (oh, yeah), yeah
I want nothing more than to be with you.
Give it to me now, oh
I need your love right away.
Electric eels in the water, we should probably not go deep
Let's not take any unnecessary risks that could jeopardize our relationship.
The best time was when, well, me and you
The happiest times of my life have been spent with you.
We got our friends and we got a tent
We shared amazing memories with our friends on an adventure in the great outdoors.
We slept in it, not the whole night, but just enough time
Our camping trip wasn't perfect, but it was still an unforgettable night spent together.
Magic happened, nothing was born luckily
We had a magical night together, but luckily we didn't have any surprises the morning after.
It's up to me, but then we left
I wish we could go back in time and relive those memories.
The times have changed
Things are different now than they were before.
The pleasures that I feel
Being with you brings so much joy and comfort.
They say you never say never, it's real
People say you can never make a commitment, but being with you is my reality and my forever.
I like to stare at you and look at you when you sleep
I love watching you sleep because it gives me time to appreciate all the little things about you.
I'd like to write a poem for you, leave it for you in your room
I want to express my love for you in any way I can, starting with a simple poem.
Under the moon, romance
A romantic gesture under the moonlight is the perfect way to express my love for you.
Hold on, brother
Stay strong and don't give up on love.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Donald Mckinley Glover, Ludwig Emil Tomas Goransson
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