All About Sons Legend, Drake and Donald III

Donald Glover has three “Child Boys” in his life.

In any other case recognized by his stage title Infantile Gambino, Glover shares three sons along with his longtime associate, Michelle White: Legend, 8, Drake, 6 and Donald III, 4. The couple welcomed all three children earlier than quietly tying the knot in 2023.

Though Glover is infamous for maintaining his private life non-public, he has sometimes opened up concerning the impression of fatherhood. In February 2018, Glover spoke with Esquire about how parenthood has shifted his perspective on life.

“Each step of your life when you’re an grownup, you notice what being a young person is. When you’re a young person, you notice what being a baby is,” he stated, explaining that every section of life offers context for the one which got here earlier than it.

He continued, “Youngsters are life’s best context. Parenthood actually does make you one thing extra. It asks you questions that nobody is ever prepared for, and that you just’re all the time prepared for. It’s like ayahuasca.”

However for the Grammy-winning artist, changing into a father has additionally meant adjusting his relationship with work.

“I do block off time now [to work on music] as a result of I’m like, ‘I need to be there for them at the moment, and I need to be sure I see his sport.’ That takes lots of scheduling,” Glover stated on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! in March 2022.

From how they’re following of their father’s footsteps to how they preserve him humble, right here’s the whole lot to learn about Donald Glover’s youngsters.

Legend Glover, 8

Glover and White welcomed their first son, Legend, in 2016. Nonetheless, the brand new father didn’t reveal his son’s title till a efficiency on the Governors Ball the next summer time.

“This track is devoted to all people on this crowd and my younger son, Legend,” Glover instructed the New York Metropolis crowd earlier than performing his track titled “Child Boy.”

As a younger child, one among Legend’s favourite films was The Lion King, however he didn’t even know his father was the voice of Simba within the 2019 adaptation.

“My son, he loves The Lion King, he is a giant, huge fan, and of animals normally,” Donald stated on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! in July 2019. “I did not need to inform him, ‘Oh I am Simba,’ [because] that is most likely the one time in historical past this can occur the place a child is aware of a film and his father is the [main character].”

“Yesterday I used to be like, ‘Hey, you need to go see The Lion King?’ simply to see if he would possibly discover my voice or no matter. And he was like, ‘Oh, certain. Beyoncé’s in it, proper?’ And I used to be like, ‘How do you know that? But in addition, Daddy’s in it! I am in it, too!’ ” Glover added.

Though Legend won’t have absolutely grasped his father’s abilities on the time, it wouldn’t be lengthy earlier than he started to indicate indicators of following in his father’s footsteps. In an interview with WSJ. Journal in September 2024, Glover mirrored on the second throughout one among Legend’s soccer video games when he realized his son was “a performer.”

“In the course of bringing it down the sphere, he grabbed his chest and falls to the bottom, pretending he’s dying,” he instructed the outlet. “I keep in mind considering, ‘Oh, he’s a performer.’ He’s not going to be Messi. He’s an artist on some stage, he values expertise.”

Legend introduced that artistry to his dad’s sixth album, Bando Stone & the New World, in a duet titled “Can You Really feel Me.”

“He has actually good pitch, and he was all the time desirous about what I used to be doing,” he instructed WSJ. Journal.

Nonetheless, having his son collaborate on the album with him was a troublesome resolution for Glover.

“In an ideal world, I wouldn’t have my children within the enterprise,” he instructed WSJ. Journal. “I don’t love the trade, it does one thing to individuals … So it was arduous, however he’s actually good and I used to be tremendous pleased with him.”

In Could 2024, Selection reported that Legend had a cameo in episode 4 of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which Glover co-created and stars in, because the son of John Smith’s ex-girlfriend Rooney.

Drake Glover, 6

In January 2018, Glover’s second little one — a son named Drake — was born. Glover first introduced he had one other little one on the way in which on the Emmy Awards in September 2017, throughout his acceptance speech for excellent lead actor in a comedy collection.

“I need to thank my child, my son, for simply being the enjoyment in my life,” Glover stated. “I need to thank my unborn son — we’re listening to Stevie [Wonder] tonight.”

In September 2024, Glover instructed WSJ. Journal that he all the time wished a number of youngsters as a result of he feels unhealthy for less than youngsters who don’t have siblings.

“Yeah, they get much more consideration most likely, however in case you’re like, ‘Is mother and pa loopy?’ You could have no person to bounce that off with. You’re like, ‘Perhaps! I don’t know. Are they?’ Trigger like that is what’s useful with brothers and sisters, they’ll be like no, I do not forget that and that is what I keep in mind and it helps,” he instructed WSJ. Journal.

In March 2022, Jimmy Kimmel requested Glover what his children considered him shaving his head bald, and Glover shared Drake’s response that saved him humble.

“My center little one says, ‘Daddy appears to be like bizarre.’ Which I do, to him. He solely has 4 years life expertise, so to him, he’s like, ‘Daddy’s been this fashion for a very long time,’ ” Glover stated.

Donald Glover III, 4

In a September 2020 dialog with actress Michaela Coel for GQ, Glover revealed that he had quietly welcomed a son named Donald Glover III earlier that yr in June.

“, I had [a kid] through the coronavirus,” he instructed Coel, earlier than explaining that the beginning got here amid nationwide protests over George Floyd‘s dying.

“Yeah, it was nuts,” Glover added. “I used to be within the hospital mattress. My son had simply been born, like, an hour earlier than and I used to be watching the George Floyd video. It was such a bizarre second.”

Within the GQ interview, Glover additionally shared that his new child boy was named after his father Donald Glover Sr., who died in 2018.

“It was such an intense, bizarre second, as a result of I’m watching that video and it’s like eight minutes lengthy, so that you’re sitting there and I had simply had this superb, joyful, increasing second, plus my dad had handed away just lately, so [my son] was named after my father,” he defined. “I don’t even know what, actually, the phrase is to explain it. It was simply increasing: the empathy and compassion and the fear and the enjoyment of it.”

Based on Glover, his youngest son has a behavior of being significantly trustworthy. In a dialog with WSJ. Journal in September 2024, he recalled a time on the grocery retailer when he requested his youngest son if it was annoying that he talked to himself.

“He stated, ‘No, nicely, it’s bizarre and annoying.’ That’s him in a nutshell. He’s very truthful in that sense, which is superior,” Glover stated about his youngest son.