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]
The Worst Guys
Childish Gambino Lyrics
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At a Clippers' game on the court-side
Watch a nigga' shoot like a .4-5
They mad at me, too, I got more fire
Why these bitches see you "go home, Roger" (Go home, Roger)
Tia and Tamara in my bed I'm a smart guy
I ain't fucking with you niggas like apartheid
I'm something so immaculate
Instead of asking what's happenin' and rather blastin'
Jackson 5 in the back of an Acura, acting blacker
Than a Bernie Mac, two Charlie Murphys and Akon
The girls that you brought man, where are they from?
Where are they from? We were playin' Playstation
Why you standin' there, say som', girl say som'
No, this ain't a vacation, this is my house, my house
All she needed was some
Bought a new bath, 8K, nigga
Wanna take shots? AK, nigga
When I ball, I'mma ball King James, nigga
Uncle Ben in my hand, make change, nigga
And I'm out of this world like Tang, nigga
That's a space bar, man, I hate y'all
You only come around when you want to play pool in my hot tub
Ice cream paint job in the garage
I had a menage, and murdered the vag'
But, afterwards, it was awkward as fuck
Cause I'm nervous as fuck and could not get it up
I-I-I-I-I need a minute, cold water to the face
I-I-I couldn't finish, got the uber from her place
On my porch smoking vapor, hit with the Sunday paper
Listening to the neighbors
All she needed was some
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god
Our neighbors
All alone, no no no no
The lyrics to Childish Gambino's song The Worst Guys depict a day in the life of the artist as he talks about his luxurious lifestyle and sexual encounters. He starts the first verse by describing his experience at a Clippers' game, where he sits on the court-side and watches a player shoot with precision. He asserts that he is better at what he does than his competitors, which has caused some people to envy him. He then references Tia and Tamara from the television show "Sister, Sister," who he claims are in his bed. He also talks about his impressive music archive and how he is an exceptional artist. He then contrasts himself with his blackness, acting "blacker than a Bernie Mac, two Charlie Murphys, and Akon"- an allusion to his humorous yet confident demeanor. He asks about the origins of some girls that were apparently hanging out with him and his friends, subtly trying to start a conversation. He also mentions that his house is not a vacation spot but actually his home.
The chorus repeats the line "All she needed was some," suggesting that his sexual partner only needed some intimacy, even though he invested a considerable sum of money in the house and the surroundings.
The second verse starts with Gambino boasting about his wealth and the material things he can afford. He references an 8000-dollar bath, a weapon, and his abilities as a baller like King James. He also mentions Uncle Ben, who, in the Marvel Comics universe, has special powers and is Spider-Man's mentor. In Gambino's case, he becomes Uncle Ben to make changes happen, implying his impact and influence as an artist. He then raps about his extraordinary and unique status, claiming that he is out of this world like Tang drink, a powdered drink mix.
The verse then takes a darker turn, where Gambino talks about his sexual encounter that resulted in an awkward moment. He confesses that he could not perform as expected, even though he had a three-way sexual encounter with two women. His nervousness takes over as he couldn't get it up, and he had to leave his date's house using an Uber. He then paints a picture of himself sitting on his porch smoking a vaporiser, listening to his neighbours and thinking about the events that took place.
Line by Line Meaning
All she needed was some
The girl I met just needed some companionship
At a Clippers' game on the court-side
We were at a basketball game watching from the best seats
Watch a nigga' shoot like a .4-5
We were watching someone make amazing shots
They mad at me, too, I got more fire
People are jealous of me and my success
Why these bitches see you "go home, Roger" (Go home, Roger)
Women weren't interested in my friend and were telling him to leave
Tia and Tamara in my bed I'm a smart guy
I had twin girls in my bed, referencing the show 'Sister, Sister'
I ain't fucking with you niggas like apartheid
I won't associate or work with people who are racist
Hits on my list, check my archive
I have a long list of successful songs
I'm something so immaculate
I am perfect, amazing
Instead of asking what's happenin' and rather blastin'
I'd rather play some music instead of worrying about what's happening
Jackson 5 in the back of an Acura, acting blacker
Listening to Jackson 5 while driving, trying to act like a stereotypical black person
Than a Bernie Mac, two Charlie Murphys and Akon
Being cooler, funnier, and more talented than famous black entertainers
The girls that you brought man, where are they from?
Asking where our female guests are from
Where are they from? We were playin' Playstation
Laughing off the question and saying we were just relaxing and playing video games
Why you standin' there, say som', girl say som'
Asking a girl to speak up and say whatever's on her mind
No, this ain't a vacation, this is my house, my house
Clarifying that this is not a party, but rather a gathering at my own home
Bought a new bath, 8K, nigga
Bought an expensive new bathtub
Wanna take shots? AK, nigga
Offering to drink shots, and playing on words with the acronym for AK-47
When I ball, I'mma ball King James, nigga
When I play basketball, I play like LeBron James
Uncle Ben in my hand, make change, nigga
Holding Rice-A-Roni in my hand, as a metaphor for making money
And I'm out of this world like Tang, nigga
Referring to the drink Tang, saying that I'm otherworldly
That's a space bar, man, I hate y'all
Playing on words with the phrase 'space bar', and expressing dislike towards others
You only come around when you want to play pool in my hot tub
Feeling like people only visit me for my luxurious entertainment options
Ice cream paint job in the garage
Having a custom paint job on my car
I had a menage, and murdered the vag'
Having a threesome, and successfully having sex
But, afterwards, it was awkward as fuck
Feeling awkward and uncomfortable after the sexual encounter
Cause I'm nervous as fuck and could not get it up
Being too anxious and not able to perform sexually
I-I-I-I-I need a minute, cold water to the face
Needing a pause to calm down and gather thoughts
I-I-I couldn't finish, got the uber from her place
Being unable to complete the sexual encounter, and leaving by Uber
On my porch smoking vapor, hit with the Sunday paper
Relaxing on my porch by smoking an e-cigarette, while reading the Sunday newspaper
Listening to the neighbors
Eavesdropping on the neighbors' conversations
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god
Reacting in shock
Our neighbors
Referring to what was heard from the neighbors
All alone, no no no no
Feeling isolated and lonely
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: DONALD MCKINLEY II GLOVER, LUDWIG EMIL TOMAS GORANSSON, CHANCELOR JOHNATHAN BENNETT
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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Lyrics:
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some
All she needed was some
At a Clippers game on the courtside (side)
Watch a nigga shoot like a 4-5 (five)
They mad at me, too, I got more fire
When these bitches see you, "Go home, Roger" (go home, Roger)
Tia and Tamera in my bed, I'm a smart guy
I ain't fucking with you niggas like apartheid (nah)
Hits on my list, check my archive
I'm something so immaculate
Instead of asking what's happenin' rather blastin'
Jackson 5 in the back of an Acura, acting blacker
Than a Bernie Mac, two Charlie Murphys and Akon
The girls that you brought man, where are they from?
Where are they from? We were playin' PlayStation
Why you standin' there? Say some', girl say some'
No, this ain't a vacation, this is my house, my house
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some
Bought a new bath (bath), 8K, nigga
Wanna take shots? (Shots) AK, nigga
When I ball, I'ma ball King James, nigga
Uncle Ben in my hand, make change, nigga
And I'm out of this world like Tang, nigga (Tang, nigga)
That's a space bar, man, I hate y'all
You only come around when you wanna play pool on my hot tub
Ice cream paint job in the garage
I had a ménage, and murdered the vag'
But, afterwards, it was awkward as fuck
'Cause I'm nervous as fuck and could not get it up
I-I-I-I, I need a minute, cold water to the face
I-I, I couldn't finish, got the Uber from her place
On my porch smoking vapor, hit with the Sunday paper
Listening to the neighbors
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some (all she needed was some)
All she needed was some
All she needed was some
All she needed was some
All she needed was some
@Poudii
my favorite music video from gambino! i love chill ametuer music videos like this
@andrewwilliams6354
Poudii Yo I love your vids
@datjr148
what else
@mrsparksum
What up poudii
@KDRUSSELL2024
AYOO YOU RIGHT LOVE THIS SONG TO❗️❗️❗️ #Poudii
@SHANEWHEATON
What's poppin poodi
@jaysobrazzy4281
Also, the fact that they never actually state what she needed (in the song), symbolizes that they never gave it to her and is in fact, the reason why Chance & Donald are The Worst Guys
@fatpenguin1204
Jay So Brazzy 🤯🤯🤯
@sherryramjit855
Shut up
@raycism
@@sherryramjit855 no, your mom gay