21 Savage had everybody fooled when he introduced plans for his American Dream biopic starring Donald Glover earlier this month.
Nevertheless, the bogus movie received’t be materializing, as 21 confirmed throughout his Membership Shay Shay interview on Wednesday that The 21 Savage Story trailer was only a “parody” and served as promotion for his new American Dream album.
“Nah, that was a parody,” he instructed the NFL Corridor-of-Famer. Whereas the Slaughter Gang chief agreed that his life’s story may very well be a charming look ahead to followers, he thinks the timing isn’t excellent but.
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“I really feel prefer it may very well be in the future,” 21 teased. “They might hate on it now although. As a result of they gon’ be like, ‘[Why] the f— 21 Savage deserves… a film about him for? What he did?’ You know the way they do.”
21 dropped the trailer for American Dream: The 21 Savage Story forward of his American Dream album earlier in January. The biopic promised to hit theaters on July 4 and featured Savage’s life story from British immigrant to multi-platinum recording artist.
Stranger Issues star Caleb McLaughlin was set to play a youthful 21 within the film, whereas Donald Glover took the reigns when Savage entered his rap profession. Jabari Banks was even solid within the trailer as an rising Metro Boomin to showcase their friendship on their rise to stardom.
Whereas the phony biopic dissatisfied followers, the promotion paid off for 21 Savage: American Dream banked him one other No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with 133,000 album equal items earned within the first week. He additionally tallied 14 Billboard Scorching 100 entries from the undertaking, to make him the sixteenth artist ever to cross the century mark for Scorching 100 placements.
Watch 21 clarify that the film was only a parody and discover the American Dream trailer beneath.
