Donald Glover, formerly known as Childish Gambino, is on the cover of Esquire's March 2018 issue and in the issue he makes a very bold claim.
The Atlanta actor revealed several similarities between him and Tupac Shakur and believes that these similarities demonstrate that he is "the new Tupac."
"I know everybody likens themselves to Tupac a lot," Glover said. "I am the new Tupac in a strange way. I grew up similar. I didn't have a mom in the Black Panthers, but my parents were very pro-black. Also, my mom made me go to performing arts high school. She was like, ‘That's where you need to be.'"
"Sometimes you have to play a role for people to understand you, even though you're far more complex than any of that. Sometimes it's really hard to simplify that so people can eat it," he said.
Read the full article at Esquire.com.