Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' Reportedly Began As a Drake Diss

Childish Gambino gripped the hip hop audience with his 2018 hit record "This Is America." However, in a new interview with GQ, Childish Gambino, real name Donald Glover, initially wrote the song as a diss aimed at Drake. 

“I had that idea like three years before,” he continued, “and I told Hiro [Murai] the idea [and] he was like, ‘I want to do that.’ He was like, ‘I really want to do that.’ And I was like, ‘Cool.’ And I had the song. I swear to God, the idea for the song started as a joke – to be completely honest, [the line] ‘this is America’, that was all we had.”

Glover then revealed, “[It] was a funny way of like doing [a Drake diss],” he explained, “but then I was like, ‘This sh** sounds kind of hard, though.’ So I was like, ‘Let me play with it.’ So we just had that for a long time, I told Hiro the idea, and he was like, ‘Oh, let’s do it.’”

Source: Nme.com