Donald Glover Asks Himself ‘Are You Afraid of Black Girls?’ in New Self-Interview

Donald Glover is thought for his minimal press, which might be why he selected to interview himself for his new Interview journal cowl story.

The interview is dizzying to get by if you attempt to wrap your head across the identical particular person asking and answering questions. Format and editorial selections apart, one half that had readers perplexed was a piece of the interview that addressed Black girls and race.

“Are you afraid of Black girls?” he asks himself.

“Why are you asking me that?”

“I really feel like your relationship to them has performed an enormous half in your narrative.”

“I really feel such as you’re utilizing Black girls to query my Blackness.”

Many Twitter customers referred to as out the ridiculousness of the interview, pointing to that half specifically.

it was this a part of the “infantile gambino interviewing infantile gambino” interview that made me cease to assume… why? pic.twitter.com/paLFRihd6m

— ????? ??? ? (@TheCourtKim) April 7, 2022

I strive to consider editorial from all angles— govt stage, influence stage, story stage, and so on— however I fairly actually don’t perceive the purpose of this https://t.co/DSsgUsGVnM

— Ivie Ani (@ivieani) April 7, 2022

For chaos causes, now I would like a Black girl to interview Donald Glover since he mentioned he’s not afraid of us.

— Najma Sharif (@overdramatique) April 7, 2022

Glover makes an attempt to proceed the dialogue on race however rapidly shuts himself down: “Can I say one thing? I hate speaking about race greater than 5 minutes until it’s with different Black folks and/or we’re laughing.”

Elsewhere within the piece, Glover touched on social media, saying that he solely thinks “life is actual until some issues are only for you,” including that “everybody I meet who’s lively on the web seems to be drained as f— in actual life.”

Afterward, he shared that he thought that As a result of the Web, his sophomore album as Infantile Gambino, was “the rap OK Pc. It’s prescient in tone and subject material and intensely influential. And I do know nobody’s gonna give me that till I’m useless. Nevertheless it’s true.”

As for brand spanking new music, Glover informed himself that he’s been “rapping rather a lot. Producing.” and “doing options.” He declined to speak about any of those tasks, nonetheless, and mentioned that one verse specifically most likely is not going to come out as a result of the artist’s administration thinks it’s too controversial.

Learn Glover’s full self-interview in Interview journal.