Donald Glover Confirms Childish Gambino Is NOT Retired

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While it antecedently seemed similar Donald Glover was retiring his rap pseudonym Childish Gambino, he acceptable the grounds consecutive astatine the 2023 Golden Globes. 

"No, that was retired successful the ethos," the 39-year-old prima exclusively told Laverne Cox during Live From E! on Jan. 10. "You don't person to interest astir that. He'll beryllium back. He's present close now."

In fact, Glover shared that he's really been moving connected immoderate caller music. 

"I'm making euphony close now," helium continued. "I emotion it. I'm really moving [on it]. I'm successful the studio. I've been, like, bringing radical in—like concealed people. Like, moving connected small things. But I've conscionable been, like, making it for amusive for close now. But soon, thing volition hap I promise. Something volition happen."

Speculation astir Glover's aboriginal arsenic Childish Gambino has been spreading for a while. In 2017, a twelvemonth aft releasing his 3rd workplace medium Awaken, My Love!, helium told HuffPost that helium was stepping distant from his euphony vocation due to the fact that helium didn't deliberation it was "necessary." 

"There's thing worst than similar a 3rd sequel, similar a 3rd movie and we're like, 'Again?'" helium said astatine the time. "You know, I similar it erstwhile something's bully and erstwhile it comes backmost there's a crushed to travel back, there's a crushed to bash that."

Despite these remarks, Glover dropped his deed opus "This Is America," which won 4 Grammys, aboriginal that year. He past released his album 3.15.20 in 2020. Both projects were nether the sanction Childish Gambino.

However, Glover also continued to absorption connected his Emmy-winning show Atlanta, which came to an extremity aft 4 seasons successful November 2022.

While speaking to Cox, Glover reflected connected what he'd similar the series' bequest to be. 

"Just that you tin bash immoderate you want," the actor, who was up for a Golden Globe for his relation arsenic Earn Marks, shared. "Like, that was beauteous overmuch each we wanted to bash from the precise beginning. Like, maine and my member are like, ‘We're going to get canceled adjacent week.' So, I'm, like, precise blessed that it was like, 'Oh, we did precisely what we wanted to do. We didn't person to bow down to anything.'"

And helium noted that helium inactive gets affectional watching the finale. 

"I outcry each clip I ticker the past episode. I've seen it similar 4 times," Glover added. "I emotion being capable to bash that. Zazie [Beetz], Brian [Tyree Henry], LaKeith [Stanfield]. I conscionable emotion being a family, that's it….That amusement was precisely what it was expected to be."

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