21 Savage says his “American Desires” trailer, which featured Donald Glover portraying the rapper, was certainly a parody.
The rapper sat down with Shannon Sharpe’s “Membership Shay Shay” to talk about his new album. The trailer sparked laughs and raised eyebrows after Glover was seen with face tats and locs in his function as Savage. Caleb McLaughlin additionally portrayed the rapper in his youth. Jabari Banks performed his good friend and producer Metro Boomin within the mini-film. Whereas some took it as an actual film, Savage says it was all a joke.
“Nah, that was a parody,” he advised Sharpe, although he was not utterly against the thought of a biopic about his life. “I really feel prefer it could possibly be someday. They’d hate on it now, although. As a result of they gon’ be like, ‘What the f**okay 21 Savage deserve a narrative for, a film about him for? What he did?’ You know the way they do.”
Elsewhere within the dialog, Savage shared how properly he used to do in class as a baby, particularly in spelling bees.
“I used to be a superb scholar up till a sure grade. We was simply speaking about this final night time. We was taking part in the sport, they usually was like, ‘Spell Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,’ and it was loopy trigger I gained the spelling bee in fifth grade spelling that very same phrase. And I gained the maths competitors that very same 12 months,” he defined to Sharpe earlier than admitting that he gave up on faculty after realizing he was an immigrant and believing sure privileges akin to faculty and higher jobs could not have been afforded to him.
Fortunately, his musical abilities have afforded him a life he may solely dream of again then. Even with the very unserious trailer, “American Desires” has earned rave opinions from his followers and rap colleagues alike. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
