During his first of two acceptance speeches at the Golden Globe Awards yesterday, Donald Glover thanked Migos, who guest starred on the award-winning Atlanta, for writing “the best song ever” – their current single Bad and Boujee, which features Lil Uzi Vert.

It seems like the endorsement has allowed the song to receive far wider interest than they could have imagined.

According to lyrics website Genius, Bad and Boujee jumped in Spotify streams by 243% in the USA, within just a two hour window. On Genius itself, the song’s lyrics page has been the most viewed page of the past 30 days, shooting up by 80% from 2500 to 4500 views per hour. It’s also racing up global iTunes charts as we speak, and is now sitting at no. 4 on the US charts for both iTunes and Apple Music.

More than that, it’s even extended to Google Trends, with the search for “Migos” jumping from 26% to 100%, and “Bad And Boujee” racing from 23% to 100%.

It’s not like the song was previously unknown – that very day it had already hit no. 1 on the Billboard charts before Glover’s endorsement, but this has pushed it to a whole new level.

The video is also racing very quickly quickly toward one hundred million views on Youtube, which is about ninety million more than any other video they have ever released.

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Migos featured in the third episode of Atlanta as a group of drug dealers whom main character Paper Boi, played by Brian Tyree Henry, has to reckon with.

Backstage after his speech, Glover, who in 2015 tweeted about a possible collab with the trio, detailed his affection for the song. “Honestly, that song is just fly. There’s no better song to have sex to… I think that they’re The Beatles of this generation and they don’t get a lot of respect, I think, outside of Atlanta. Not that they don’t get respect, but there’s a generation, sort of like the YouTube generation that I kind of came up with. There’s a generation of kids that are growing up on something that’s completely separate from a whole group of people. And honestly, that song is just fly.”

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Migos have also responded to Glover’s endorsement in an official statement, during which they also plugged their upcoming album: “It was an honor to have been on ATLANTA as guests and to have our friend Donald Glover thank us in his Golden Globes acceptance speech is real recognizing real. We put our city on our backs and we want to thank him and the whole world for making “Bad and Boujee” as successful as it is. C U L T U R E album coming 1/27.”

This isn’t the first time that Migos have received high praise from a fellow artist recently. Earlier this week, Chance the Rapper hailed their new video for T-shirt as #OscarWorthy during a long series of tweets praising the video, and asked director and one third of Migos, Qoavo, to direct a video for him in future.

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Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, has just won a Golden Globe award for his incredible FX series Atlanta, in the Best Music or Comedy Television Program category.

Atlanta was easily one of the year’s best new television shows, praised for its unrelenting and realistic portrayal of life in Atlanta, including a look at artists in the hip-hop industry, family life, and more.

Update: Glover has also won the Best Actor award for Atlanta. In his acceptance speech, he thanks his family, revealing for the first time that his newborn child is a son. “I really want to say thank you to my son and the mother of my son for making me believe in people again and things being possible. So thank you,”

Glover’s program, which has already been renewed for a second season, was competing with Transparent, Black-ish, Veep and Mozart in the Jungle. This was Glover’s first ever nomination – he’s also up for Best Actor in the same category.

Watch his acceptance speech below: “This is incredible,” he said, before thanking FX, the cast, the writing team and everybody else, who he brought up on stage with him. “I really want to thank Atlanta, and all the black folks in Atlanta, just for being alive and being amazing people. I could’t be here without Atlanta. And I really I’d like to thank the Migos—not for being on the show, but for making Bad and Boujee, that’s the best song ever.”

“We didn’t think anyone was gonna like this show, so we appreciate it, thanks,” he ended.

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Earlier in the evening he was reunited with Community co-star Yvette Nicole Brown, for a red carpet interview:

The artist enjoyed a massive 2016 – not only did Atlanta smash several records and receive universal acclaim, he also released a tremendous new album, Awaken, My Love!, and was cast to play a young Lando Calrissian in an upcoming Star Wars film.

Check out our photo gallery of Glover as Childish Gambino live at Falls Festival in Byron Bay

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The multi-talented, multi-award-winning Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino sat down with Ellen Degeneres to talk about his incredibly busy 2016. He’s heading our way soon for the Falls and Field Day festivals, but apart from that, he’s been busy working on his new album PHAROS, and its recent live component, as well as his incredible TV program Atlanta. Most recently, he has been announced to lay Lando Calrissian in an upcoming Star Wars spinoff about Han Solo.

It was confirmed last week that Glover would be appearing in the upcoming, untitled as of yet, Han Solo movie via StarWars.com. Speaking to Ellen, he said that getting the role of Lando Calrissian (portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) was an honour and a “very big deal” that his mother in particular, warned him not to mess up.

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Donald Glover’s year-book picture, wearing the Star Wars shirt mentioned in the Ellen interview.

The pair then went on to discuss the success of and premise behind Glover’s hit FX show Atlanta. The show, which he conceptualised, wrote, stars in and directs has been ridiculously well-received since it’s debut. Atlanta follows Glover as college dropout Earnest “Earn” Marks, after he returns home to Atlanta to find that his cousin is a now a rapper on the rise, and to support his young child. Speaking about the show, Glover said that he just wanted to make “Twin Peaks with rappers” and about growing up in Atlanta when he was initially toying with the concept. Despite not knowing exactly what that meant himself when he started working on the show, it’s clearly worked out well because the entire thing was renewed for a second 10-episode season by the network after just three episodes of the premier season aired to record breaking numbers.

Watch the full interview below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1weE_ly9crs

Childish Gambino will appear at Falls Festival and Field Day over New Years.

Read more: Here’s what went down at Childish Gambino’ PHAROS Festival

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Although only three episodes have aired, Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino’s new TV program Atlanta has been renewed by FX for a second season.

It’s unsurprising considering the show has already proven to be wildly popular, immediately breaking records for the most watched FX debut in years. The show looks at Atlanta life through the eyes of Glover and his cousin, a rapper, detailing the struggle of being unable to support a young family, attempting to break into the hip-hop industry, and the gritty street life that comes along with it. It’s been hailed as equally harrowing and hilarious, allowing viewers a remarkably accurate portrayal of Atlanta and the world of hip-hop.

The series has ben renewed for a ten episode second season

Considering Glover/Gambino is readying his new album PHAROS, it’s unclear as to whether he’ll be focusing his energy and attention on acting or music (or both) throughout 2017.

Childish Gambino will be in town to bring in New Years at Falls Festival; he will also be performing at Field Day on New Years Day alongside Chance the Rapper and others.

Read more: Everything we know about PHAROS

Here’s what went down at Childish Gambino’s PHAROS event in Joshua Tree, California

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Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, recently launched a brand new TV show titled Atlanta on FX. It’s his first major acting project since wrapping up his role as Troy in Community back in 2014. The show offers a no-holds-barred look at life in Atlanta, and the violence, drugs and hip-hop that comes with it. It’s absolutely hilarious at times, with spitfire one-liners and clever jokes, and gritty, dark and deeply harrowing at others.

I’ve only watched the first two episodes but I can safely say that it’s already got me hooked. Turns out I’m not the only one, as the show received the highest debut for any basic cable comedy program in more than three years. Reaching 1.2 million viewers on its opening episode, the last show to premiere with those numbers was Inside Amy Schumer back in April 2013. It’s also the highest FX premiere since Wilfred in June 2011, according to The Wrap. 

What’s more, the opening episode was immediately followed up by the second episode, and a whopping 90% of viewers stayed on to catch both. More than three million viewers in total tuned in to watch the premiere as it happened, and encores later that week.

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I couldn’t recommend the show highly enough. Hip-hop is really getting a lot of theatrical attention these days, what with musicals (Hamilton), films (Straight Outta Compton) and shows (The Get Down, Empire) all borrowing and adopting hip-hop culture and music in their own ways. Atlanta is a very welcome addition to fore.

Glover is an incredibly active and busy guy both with his music and acting. As well as Atlanta, he’s been finishing up his new album Pharos, which recently received a live premiere at a multi-day event in Joshua Tree, California.

As Childish Gambino, Donald Glover will be touching down in Australia at the end of the year to play at Falls Festival and Field Day in Sydney.

Read more: Here’s everything we know about PHAROS

What Went Down at Childish Gambino’s PHAROS Concerts 

 

 

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With the multitalented Donald Glover having recently announced his next album as his hip-hop alter ego Childish Gambino, PHAROS, as well as finally (sort of) getting the big screen role fans have been clamouring for in the forthcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, the former Community star has also got a trailer out for his latest television project, Atlanta.

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The series is set to follow Glover as Earn Marks, a young manager trying to make it in the Atlanta music scene trying to break his emerging rapper cousin (played by Brian Tyree Henry) big. Having grown up in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta, himself and successfully forging a rap career, there are few better people than Glover to helm and star in this project.

Today’s trailer is the latest in a series of rather cryptic ones from FX with no actual dialogue or footage from the series shown. The previous trailers had all used Tame Impala’s New Person, Same Old Mistakes, but this one, appropriately set to Wake by Flume, is a montage of Glover waking up repeatedly in various states. We’re unsure what this or any of the other previous teasers really mean but assume all will soon be revealed as Atlanta gears up for its first episode airing in September.

No word yet on whether any new Childish Gambino music is to be featured as part of the show’s soundtrack (we sure wouldn’t mind one bit). Either way, it looks like Glover’s acting career is only just taking off. His stand-up is near side-splitting, he routinely stole the show as part of the aforementioned Community and had well-received supporting roles in The Martian and Magic Mike XXL.

Atlanta will be a rare turn in a starring role for Donald Glover and it will be interesting to see whether he can continue this good form with the spotlight pointed squarely at him. Given that he’s made the most of every opportunity presented to him, we think that this chance to be in charge of getting his own television project off the ground as a producer and an actor, he won’t disappoint.

Atlanta premieres on FX September 6th.

 

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The very talented and very versatile Donald Glover is at it again, performing a cover of Bruno Mars’ Marry You as… Donald Glover?

While it’s not known yet why the rapper has chosen to eschew his Childish Gambino moniker, for the cover, which is included in the Magic Mike XXL Soundtrack, he is credited as ‘Donald Glover’ on the track listing.

Also featuring on the soundtrack are Jodeci, 112, R. Kelly, and Jeremih featuring Lil Wayne.

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This revelation only adds fuel to the fire that Glover is going to shed his Childish Gambino moniker for good. Earlier this month, he performed a new song at Bonnaroo Festival with no rap at all.

This was preceded by an interview with Today, where he stated: “I want to have periods in my life,” he said. “I feel like Childish Gambino is a period that should come to a close. I like endings.”

Better yet, Glover actually addressed the transition rumours when MTV spoke to him earlier this month in preparation for the release of Magic Mike XXL, which he is starring in.

“I hope people never thought of it as just like, Oh, that was a phase,” he said. “It wasn’t like I was like, What was I doing? I knew what I was doing, I just — I like endings. I like endings. One thing about this movie that I was like, Oh, this will be cool to be part of, because like, I only want things to go on when they’re necessary. Life has a death clause. Everything should have, sort of a clause of if it’s not growing, then we should progress in a different way. With my music, if it’s not progressing and changing, then I feel like it’s dead anyway.”

“Bringing it back to [’Magic Mike XXL’], this second movie is so different from the first one, but also ties it back in. You can watch the second one and not have seen the first one. It’s a thing where it’s like, progress is key, and that’s what’s most interesting. So, yeah, I kinda wanna let it grow until it can’t grow anymore.”

No what he does or who he become, we’re sure that Glover/Childish Gambino fans will stick around for the ride.

Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino is many things – rapper, writer, actor, producer, comedian, singer, producer, handsome – and nowhere is his quite frankly annoying overacheiving nature more entertaining than in his music videos. Glover has a history of weird and wonderful videos, with 2014’s Telegraph Ave basically just laughing in the face of cinematic music video tropes with a twist ending that will blow your mind, and Clapping for the Wrong Reasons a twenty five minute mind fuck that if you figure out, let me know. I love Glover’s performance persona, and the brutal vulnerability that counters his on-stage bravado, but when I watched Sober, one of my top ten songs for the year from his 2014 mixtape/album Kauai, I was so happy to see Glover just really being funny again.

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The clip features a not-quite-sober Glover drunkenly hitting on a girl in a diner, with Glover’s slapstick physicality countered by some rather amazing moves on the tables. I wasn’t sure if this was going to be an ode to “how funny is it when a drunk guy aggressively hits on you and makes you super uncomfortable”, but to me the ending makes it right.

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American; actor, rapper, stand up comedian, artist, producer, writer and just general lord of life, Donald Glover has today continued his incredible résumé by making a return to television. He last year announced that he would be stepping away from the spotlight to focus on his rap career, however what we didn’t know is that this also included his own TV show.

It was announced back in August last year that Glover would be leaving Community in order to begin writing for American channel FX (Archer, Louie, American Horror Story), but now we have a solid idea about the show. In short, it seems like its a story about the life of Childish Gambino. Titled Atlanta, it is the story of a college dropout (Glover) who decides to pursue his dreams as the next Kanye, after his cousin’s recent success. Set (obviously) in Atlanta, the story will be set amongst the Atlantan hip-hop scene and is set to be produced by Paul Simms, from Flight of The Conchords.

For those unaware of how much of a funny man Glover truly is, then we’d suggest that you check out an hour of absolute hilarity below. Anyway, I’m off to watch Community and listen to Camp until Atlanta comes out, I’ll see you all after hibernation

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