Buzz·Posted on May 16, 2012Donald Glover Has Something To SayAnd what better place to say it than Twitter, aye?by Samir MezrahiBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Dear twitter people, Wed, 16 May 2012 21:34:02 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Dear twitter people,-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I don't like talking...stand up’s different. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:34:31 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I don't like talking...stand up’s different.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover More like I don't like explaining. I never feel like I'm saying what I wanna say or how I feel. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:35:13 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite More like I don't like explaining. I never feel like I'm saying what I wanna say or how I feel.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I’m sure even parts of this will be quoted and taken out of context. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:35:48 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I’m sure even parts of this will be quoted and taken out of context.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover And people will be mad or talk shit but won’t read the whole thing cause, honestly, we’re all busy. I get it tho. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:35:55 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite And people will be mad or talk shit but won’t read the whole thing cause, honestly, we’re all busy. I get it tho.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I think a lot people think I'm just doing shit to do shit. In a way, that’s true. But I like making things. I wanna do things well. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:36:57 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I think a lot people think I'm just doing shit to do shit. In a way, that’s true. But I like making things. I wanna do things well.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I'm learning music theory, and taking lessons. Learning languages so I can write in other languages. I love making stuff. I really do. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:37:10 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I'm learning music theory, and taking lessons. Learning languages so I can write in other languages. I love making stuff. I really do.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover My boy Kendrick gives me props which is a really cool thing to do. Doesn't need to do that at all, but he does cause he's a good person. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:37:59 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite My boy Kendrick gives me props which is a really cool thing to do. Doesn't need to do that at all, but he does cause he's a good person.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover He shouted me out at Coachella for making the beat for "Look out for Detox" Wed, 16 May 2012 21:38:07 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite He shouted me out at Coachella for making the beat for "Look out for Detox"-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover and I when I rapped over the beat at Coachella to bring him out, I saw people write "Childish, rips off Kendrick song". Wed, 16 May 2012 21:38:30 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite and I when I rapped over the beat at Coachella to bring him out, I saw people write "Childish, rips off Kendrick song".-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Not in comment sections where people say shit all the time, like in actual articles. Like journalists. Writers. It was weird. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:38:55 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Not in comment sections where people say shit all the time, like in actual articles. Like journalists. Writers. It was weird.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I was in the studio with “B” and he was like "all the stuff on the internet about music, comedy, art, etc. is like parents Wed, 16 May 2012 21:39:32 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I was in the studio with “B†and he was like "all the stuff on the internet about music, comedy, art, etc. is like parents-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover watching children play on a playground and being like 'look at Susie sliding on that slide...what an idiot'" Wed, 16 May 2012 21:39:43 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite watching children play on a playground and being like 'look at Susie sliding on that slide...what an idiot'"-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I can't sit down and talk to everyone about my beliefs, views, and intentions. I honestly would if I could. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:13 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I can't sit down and talk to everyone about my beliefs, views, and intentions. I honestly would if I could.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Also see a lot of white peeps coming to the “defense” of black peeps because they Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:24 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Also see a lot of white peeps coming to the “defense†of black peeps because they-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover think I don't like black people or myself, I guess? I really don't get that. I don’t like that. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:32 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite think I don't like black people or myself, I guess? I really don't get that. I don’t like that.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I've also seen people act like they know me. Talk about how I grew up and my shit is perfect. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:42:12 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I've also seen people act like they know me. Talk about how I grew up and my shit is perfect.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover And it's true. I’m lucky. My parents were always there and were supportive for the shit I wanted to do. It's dope. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:42:29 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite And it's true. I’m lucky. My parents were always there and were supportive for the shit I wanted to do. It's dope.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover but I'm from Decatur GA. Like, “The DEC”. In the projects. Moved to Stone Mountain later. My first recital was in South Dekalb Mall. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:42:47 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite but I'm from Decatur GA. Like, “The DECâ€. In the projects. Moved to Stone Mountain later. My first recital was in South Dekalb Mall.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I lived on my grandma's couch in the Bronx trying to pay her back for college. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:11 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I lived on my grandma's couch in the Bronx trying to pay her back for college.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Me, my father, my mother, my two sisters, and (at the time) 3 brothers split one bedroom for a while. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:22 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Me, my father, my mother, my two sisters, and (at the time) 3 brothers split one bedroom for a while.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover It feels like some sorta weird white overcompensation. Like when hipsters are like "Guess what…I hate Obama! That's how unique I am". Wed, 16 May 2012 21:45:28 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite It feels like some sorta weird white overcompensation. Like when hipsters are like "Guess what…I hate Obama! That's how unique I am".-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Like that Trayvon Martin line in EYV. I saw some white peeps get upset. Which was a little funny to me cause it felt like no one cared Wed, 16 May 2012 21:47:10 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Like that Trayvon Martin line in EYV. I saw some white peeps get upset. Which was a little funny to me cause it felt like no one cared-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover about Oscar Grant or Kenneth Chamberlain or any of the other black kids shot in ATL or anywhere else when that shit happened. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:47:16 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite about Oscar Grant or Kenneth Chamberlain or any of the other black kids shot in ATL or anywhere else when that shit happened.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I'm the one getting texts from my mom every time that shit happens. And that shit happens a lot. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:47:49 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I'm the one getting texts from my mom every time that shit happens. And that shit happens a lot.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Also, it wasn't a joke. It was worldplay to highlight something that I thought was unfair. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:48:33 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Also, it wasn't a joke. It was worldplay to highlight something that I thought was unfair.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover But, if it was a joke, I get to do that. Cause that could've been me. I'm a black dude. I've had bullets whiz by me cause I look like me. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:48:48 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite But, if it was a joke, I get to do that. Cause that could've been me. I'm a black dude. I've had bullets whiz by me cause I look like me.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I get to deal with it the way I wanna deal. Cause it's my deal. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:48:58 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I get to deal with it the way I wanna deal. Cause it's my deal.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover People will hate me/ my shit, but post my shit cause they want the web hits, cuz fans follow it. And I'm really lucky to have fans like that Wed, 16 May 2012 21:50:31 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite People will hate me/ my shit, but post my shit cause they want the web hits, cuz fans follow it. And I'm really lucky to have fans like that-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Mattafact, I wanna say thank you to fans. You guys are really the reason I'm even here or able to do this stuff. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:50:45 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Mattafact, I wanna say thank you to fans. You guys are really the reason I'm even here or able to do this stuff.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I'm not bullshitting around. I don't think I'm the best. I don't think being the best comes from having a lot of money Wed, 16 May 2012 21:51:51 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I'm not bullshitting around. I don't think I'm the best. I don't think being the best comes from having a lot of money-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover or saying "I'm the best" all the time. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:51:58 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite or saying "I'm the best" all the time.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover But I'm also not looking to be "some dude". I don't do anything hoping to end it with being "some dude". Wed, 16 May 2012 21:52:24 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite But I'm also not looking to be "some dude". I don't do anything hoping to end it with being "some dude".-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I don't think anyone person on earth should strive to be "just some dude". Wed, 16 May 2012 21:52:34 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I don't think anyone person on earth should strive to be "just some dude".-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover I don't wanna be that. Or a coward. Those are the worst things you could be. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:52:53 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite I don't wanna be that. Or a coward. Those are the worst things you could be.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Childish Gambino started as an inside joke that grew way faster than I ever thought it could. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:53:19 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Childish Gambino started as an inside joke that grew way faster than I ever thought it could.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover When people come up to me and are like "this got me through chemo" or "I came out to my parents" off of Childish, I almost feel guilty. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:53:29 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite When people come up to me and are like "this got me through chemo" or "I came out to my parents" off of Childish, I almost feel guilty.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Shit started as a joke, fun between writing with family and friends. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:53:41 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Shit started as a joke, fun between writing with family and friends.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover But I kinda don't have that scapegoat anymore...and I’m good with that. Word. Wed, 16 May 2012 21:54:12 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite But I kinda don't have that scapegoat anymore...and I’m good with that. Word.-- Donald Glover Donald Glover @DonaldGlover Here's a start: http://t.co/ISUnYYgO Wed, 16 May 2012 21:54:39 +0000 Reply Retweet Favorite Here's a start: http://t.co/ISUnYYgO-- Donald Glover