21 Savage, Donald Glover, and Stranger Issues’ Caleb McLaughlin have come collectively for a brand new film concerning the Atlanta rapper’s life and notorious 2018 arrest by the USA’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a brand new trailer, which doubles as a music video for a model new 21 Savage tune, Glover and McLaughlin play 21 Savage at numerous factors in his life. The clip additionally exhibits Jabari Banks as Metro Boomin. Watch beneath.
The brand new film, American Dream: The 21 Savage Story, doesn’t at present have a launch date. Extra stars within the movie embrace Natasha Lyonne, comic Druski, Gail Bean, Chad Lindberg, Victoria Pedretti, and Younger Mazino. The trailer is directed by Donald and Stephen Glover, Jamal Olori, and Fam Udeorji.
Underneath his Infantile Gambino moniker, Donald Glover has an extended historical past with 21 Savage, together with enlisting him for backing vocals on his smash hit “This Is America” and on the following “12.38.” He additionally appeared on 21 Savage’s tune “Monster” in 2018, earlier than performing it with him at Lollapalooza.
21 Savage’s arrest by the hands of ICE in 2018 got here as a shock to the hip-hop world. The episode, which befell throughout Donald J. Trump’s presidency, revealed particulars of the rapper’s life, together with the then-unpublicized indisputable fact that he was born in the UK earlier than transferring, as a toddler, to Atlanta, town the place he made his title.
The rapper’s lawyer stated 21 Savage “by no means hid his immigration standing from the U.S. authorities,” and that the investigation served “no different function than to unnecessarily punish him and attempt to intimidate him into giving up his proper to battle to stay in the USA.” In an interview with Good Morning America after his launch, 21 Savage stated he was focused by ICE, maybe because of his public criticism of the U.S. immigration system. He has since grow to be a everlasting U.S. citizen and returned to the UK to carry out.