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Donald Glover Recalls Being Booed While Opening For Kid Cudi

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Donald Glover recently reflected on being booed while opening for Kid Cudi at Terminal 5 during a performance as Childish Gambino. The Atlanta creator recalled the incident in a new cover story for GQ, published on Tuesday.

“At the time I had a full band and a violinist,” he recalled. “I just kept turning to the band and telling them, ‘Next song! Next song!’ I put on a really intense show through the boos.” In the many years since the performance, Glover has blossomed into one of the most celebrated artists in the industry. His third studio album, Awaken, My Love!, received a Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year and reached the top 5 of the Billboard 200. Glover’s 2018 song, “This Is America,” also won Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance, and Best Music Video Grammys for the year it was released.

Childish Gambino At iHeartRadio Music Festival

LAS VEGAS, NV – SEPTEMBER 21: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO COMMERCIAL USE) Childish Gambino performs onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 21, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

Now, Glover has no qualms about his early career failings. He told GQ that he couldn’t have gotten to where he is now had he, for example, been hired by Saturday Night Live. “I dodged so many bullets,” Glover explained. “Me being on SNL would’ve killed me. I got friends who made it on SNL and, at the time, I was like, damn. But if I got on SNL, my career wouldn’t have happened. And thank God. Thank God I didn’t get some of those pilots. I wanted so desperately to be on Parks and Rec because it was the cool, hipster show. I am the bullet dodger, I feel like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction. That wasn’t a mistake, you know? God did that.”

Elsewhere in the interview with GQ, Glover revealed that Malia Obama is currently working on a short film for his production company, Gilga. The daughter of former president Barack Obama previously worked in the writer’s room for Glover’s Amazon series, Swarm.

Donald Glover’s GQ Cover

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Elon Musk Booed By Crowd At Dave Chappelle Show

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A crowd at Dave Chappelle’s latest show in San Francisco booed Elon Musk when the billionaire was brought on stage, Sunday night. Footage from the event shows Musk receiving overwhelming disapproval from the audience.

“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle said firstly to introduce Musk.

BOCA CHICA BEACH, TX – AUGUST 25: SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The two companies announced plans to work together to provide T-Mobile cellular service using Starlink satellites. (Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)

“It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience,” Chappelle joked. “All these people who are booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious, you have terrible seats.”

When the boos persisted, Chappelle continued to defend a seemingly uncomfortable Musk.

“Don’t say nothing. It’ll only spoil the moment,” Chappelle further said. “Do you hear that sound, Elon? That’s the sound of pending civil unrest. I can’t wait to see what store you decimate next, motherfucker. You shut the fuck up.”

Twitter appears to have suspended the owner of the original video or they have deleted their account as there is a message reading: “This Tweet is from an account that no longer exists.”

Musk later responded to the video of the incident going viral on Twitter.

“Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter),” he wrote. “It’s almost as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh.”

Musk has been drawing plenty of criticism in recent weeks since purchasing Twitter. Over the weekend, he came under fire for criticizing Anthony Fauci with an unoriginal joke about pronouns.

Check out the reaction to Musk’s appearance at Chappelle’s show below.

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