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]
Trillion Girls
Childish Gambino Lyrics
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Trillion girls, make me feel like nobody
Baby trillion girls
Too bad for me cause now it take
A trillion girls, to revert my hurt
Trillion girls, and every one
Reminds me of you, baby
Trillion girls
Trillion girls, I need my sensory deprivation
And a trillion girls, to rule my world
God is a woman, who else could still love us?
Mother Earth so fucked
They ain't even use rubbers
Now her kids run around tryna
Smash like their dad
And they sayin' they don't miss
What they really never had
I try to find the peace that
I had inside of her womb
Stillborn, fetal position
Cradled inside a tomb like Tutankhamen
They hoot and hollerin' for a king
But the queen is for real
What's a yang with no yin?
Life hack like a terminal cough
Watch 'em go off
Lowercase so all my talkin' is soft
Got some giraffe by a succubus
Suckin' my homunculus met her at the beach
She was down like my comforters
Girl (Are you ready for me?) Been ready for you
Make a comeback in that V, Vendetta for you
Bino don't rap, this is art
Been said it for you
But every time you go in, you lose somethin'
Trillion girls, abusers of my body, baby
Trillion girls, make me feel like nobody
Baby trillion girls
Too bad for me cause now it take
A trillion girls, to revert my hurt
Trillion girls, and every one
Reminds me of you, baby
Trillion girls
And every one of them are just as crazy
Trillion girls, I need my sensory deprivation
And a trillion girls, to rule my world
Reveal to me all of your, all your love
Open your everything
Open your everything, O-open your everything
Reveal to me all of your, all your love
Help me to elevate help me to elevate
God is a woman, God is a woman
Truth, baby, since you fucked me on the phone
I'm a honey hot suicide
But I'm never gonna fall in love again
I fuck with that, I fuck with that
Even when they bring my body back
I fuck with that, I fuck with that
Now I know a trillion ways to forget you
I'll never have a dream without a connection
So let me drown in fake Heaven, for all time
Trillion girls, abusers of my body, baby
Trillion girls, make me feel like nobody
Baby trillion girls
Too bad for me cause now it take
A trillion girls, to revert my hurt
Trillion girls, and every one
Reminds me of you, baby
Trillion girls
And every one of them are just as crazy
Trillion girls, I need my sensory deprivation
And a trillion girls, to rule my world
Reveal to me all of your, all your love
Open your everything
Open your everything, O-open your everything
Reveal to me all of your, all your love
Help me to elevate help me to elevate
God is a woman, God is a woman
"Trillion Girls" by Childish Gambino is a complex and introspective song that delves into themes of love, loss, and the search for self. The lyrics can be interpreted as a reflection on the artist's experiences with relationships and the impact they have had on his identity and emotions.
The song begins with the repeated phrase "Trillion girls, abusers of my body, baby," which can be seen as a metaphor for the countless women that the artist has been involved with. These relationships have left him feeling used and insignificant, as evidenced by the line "Trillion girls, make me feel like nobody." He is seemingly overwhelmed by the multitude of women he has encountered, suggesting that it takes a significant amount of them to heal the pain caused by one.
The chorus goes on to emphasize the artist's struggle to move on from a specific person, as every girl he encounters reminds him of this individual. The repetition of "Trillion girls" reinforces the idea that there are numerous potential partners, yet none can replace the one that got away. This creates a longing for sensory deprivation, a numbing of the senses, which he believes can only be achieved by being surrounded by a trillion girls.
The lyrics also touch on the concept of God as a woman, suggesting that women have a tremendous power over men's lives and emotions. There is a critique of society's treatment of women, highlighting the lack of responsibility taken when it comes to contraception. Gambino laments the consequences of this irresponsibility, as it leads to broken families and children who never truly experience the love they deserve.
Overall, "Trillion Girls" reflects on the artist's personal experiences, relationships, and the effects they have had on his emotional well-being. It is a contemplative examination of love, loss, and the search for meaning in a seemingly endless sea of potential partners.
Line by Line Meaning
Trillion girls, abusers of my body, baby
There are countless girls who have mistreated and taken advantage of me physically, my love.
Trillion girls, make me feel like nobody
These numerous girls make me feel insignificant and worthless.
Baby trillion girls
My dear, there are an immeasurable amount of girls out there.
Too bad for me cause now it take
Unfortunately, due to my past experiences, it now requires
A trillion girls, to revert my hurt
An unimaginable number of girls to heal the pain I've endured.
Trillion girls, and every one
Every single one of these countless girls
Reminds me of you, baby
Brings back memories of you, my love.
Trillion girls
The number of girls is truly astronomical.
And every one of them are just as crazy
And each one of them possesses a similar level of insanity.
Trillion girls, I need my sensory deprivation
The overwhelming number of girls overwhelms me, and I long for a state of solitude and silence.
And a trillion girls, to rule my world
And an unfathomable number of girls to dominate and control my existence.
God is a woman, who else could still love us?
A divine being, who is a woman, is the only one capable of continuing to love us amidst the chaos and pain.
Mother Earth so fucked
The state of our planet, Mother Earth, is in a distressing and deteriorated condition.
They ain't even use rubbers
They did not even use protection during sexual encounters.
Now her kids run around tryna
Now her children wander aimlessly, attempting to
Smash like their dad
Engage in promiscuous sexual activities like their father.
And they sayin' they don't miss
And they claim not to miss
What they really never had
What they actually never possessed or experienced.
I try to find the peace that
I strive to discover the tranquility that
I had inside of her womb
I once had when I was inside my mother's womb.
Stillborn, fetal position
Stillborn, curled up in a position resembling that of a fetus.
Cradled inside a tomb like Tutankhamen
Nurtured within a tomb, similar to the way Tutankhamen, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, was buried.
They hoot and hollerin' for a king
They cheer and shout for a male ruler,
But the queen is for real
Yet, the true power lies with the queen.
What's a yang with no yin?
How can there be masculinity without femininity?
Life hack like a terminal cough
A clever way to navigate life, like a chronic cough that never ceases.
Watch 'em go off
Observe as they become highly excited or agitated.
Lowercase so all my talkin' is soft
Using lowercase letters to symbolize my gentle and subdued manner of speaking.
Got some giraffe by a succubus
Encountered a peculiar and alluring creature, similar to a giraffe, who feeds off others' energy and vitality.
Suckin' my homunculus met her at the beach
Drained the life force from my miniature human-like creature, and I encountered her at the seaside.
She was down like my comforters
She was eager and willing, just like my blankets that provide warmth and solace.
Girl (Are you ready for me?) Been ready for you
Girl, have you prepared yourself for my presence? Because I have long been prepared for your arrival.
Make a comeback in that V, Vendetta for you
I will make a triumphant return, wearing a mask resembling the letter 'V,' as a symbol of vengeance for you.
Bino don't rap, this is art
I, Bino, do not merely rap; what I create is a form of artistic expression.
Been said it for you
I have already expressed this sentiment for your sake.
But every time you go in, you lose somethin'
However, each time you engage in romantic relationships, you end up losing a part of yourself.
Reveal to me all of your, all your love
Show me the entirety of your love and affection
Open your everything
Expose and share every aspect of yourself
Reveal to me all of your, all your love
Unveil and display all your love and devotion
Help me to elevate help me to elevate
Assist me in reaching a higher level, both emotionally and spiritually.
God is a woman, God is a woman
The divine being is feminine in nature, God is a woman.
Truth, baby, since you fucked me on the phone
Honestly, my love, ever since you betrayed me in that conversation
I'm a honey hot suicide
I am a bittersweet and fiery form of self-destruction.
But I'm never gonna fall in love again
However, I have decided to never allow myself to fall in love again.
I fuck with that, I fuck with that
I agree with and support that decision.
Even when they bring my body back
Even in the event of my death and subsequent return
Now I know a trillion ways to forget you
Now I have come to understand an innumerable number of methods to erase you from my memory.
I'll never have a dream without a connection
I will never experience a dream that is devoid of any link to you.
So let me drown in fake Heaven, for all time
Therefore, allow me to immerse myself in an illusory paradise for eternity.
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