Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” Originally Started as a Drake Diss
Donald Glover’s 2018 Childish Gambino single “This Is America” originally started its life as a diss record directed at Drake.As part of his extensive GQ cover story, Glover spoke about the genesis behind the song and revealed it was an idea he had been working on three years before it came out. “I had the idea three years before. I told Hiro the idea, and he’s like, ‘I really want to do that.’… The idea for the song started as a joke,” the Swarm co-creator admitted in a video released alongside the GQ story.“To be…