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You may know him as Childish Gambino, or perhaps as a young Lando Calrissian… 💫

🎨 No matter how you recognize , you quickly realize that we’re witnessing legend and jack of all trades in his prime.

Born at Edwards Air Force Base in ‘83 and raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Donald Glover is becoming one of the most respected and exciting talents of our generation.

From multiple Grammy winning musical selections to the critically acclaimed series, these accomplishments are just the tip of the iceberg of his creative range.

Here’s some fun facts you may or not have known about one of our favorite artist:

1️⃣ A Wu-Tang Clan Rap Name Generator Inspired Donald Glover’s Stage Name

- During an interview, Glover revealed that it was easy as plugging his birth name into the Wu-Tang Clan's online rap name generator.

2️⃣ Donald Glover Had To "Trojan-horse" FX Into Greenlighting Atlanta

- Selling the risky concept to was no easy feat as Stephen Glover, the brother of Donald, shared to The New Yorker, “Donald promised, ‘Earn and Al work together to make it in the rough music industry. Al got famous for shooting someone and now he’s trying to deal with fame, and I’ll have a new song for him every week. Darius will be the funny one, and the gang’s going to be all together.’ That was the Trojan horse.”

3️⃣ Donald Glover Wrote An Animated Deadpool Series Pilot That Never Got Made

- In 2017, FXX announced that Donald and his brother, Stephen, were developing an animated series about Deadpool, only to have the plug pulled just a year later over "creative differences.