It's hard out here for a nepo baby. Well, at least if your dad is the former leader of the free world and all. Expectations — and skepticism — may be insurmountably high.

Donald Glover is keenly aware of this, as he revealed in a recent GQ profile with the advice he shared with his protege Malia Obama.

The Atlanta and Swarm creator's latest venture is Gilga — part production company, part talent incubator, part operating farm — and one of its first projects is a short film by Obama, 24, who also spent time in the Swarm writers' room.