When I make songs I think about movies, like my own movies in my head.” Now he’s working frequently at Kanye’s studio. “When I was making it I was thinking about The Fast and The Furious and about breaking cars and going crazy,” he says. He was inspired by DC Comics character the Joker when creating this instrumental: He’s dark and gritty and my. Lil’ Kim Remixes Desiigner’s ‘Panda’ With Mainoĭesiigner was wrecking things in Grand Theft Auto V when he thought of the motif. Manchester producer Menace says he sold the Panda beat to Desiigner for 200. So when I was just looking at the X6 I was just saying that’s a panda…” I have my own way of seeing things and I look at things totally different. “I don’t say crazy like in a crazy psycho way, I mean crazy in like a great artist way. “The way my mind works is crazy, man,” he says. That hook, layered over a Menace beat, was written about Desiigner’s affinity for the BMW X6 - which he thinks looks like a panda. He released some singles - “ Danny DeVito” and “ On the Low” - with Phresher, but it wasn’t until a friend of his told him to lay down a hook over a track he found on YouTube that Desiigner would reach the ears of the hip-hop world, and all-seeing-all-knowing Kanye West. It was his little sister who convinced him to drop the middle name and add the extra I. But it was just that feeling every time I spoke to him, he would motivate me.”ĭesiigner first started working on his tracks under the moniker of Designer Royel, as Royel is his middle name. But it was just his spirit every time I saw him, you know?” says Desiigner. “It was just so strong and so powerful. I wasn’t really around my grandfather as a kid. “He was definitely a big influence on me. His grandfather, Sidney Selby, is an accomplished blues musician in his own right who toured with The Isley Brothers and The Drifters and released multiple albums under the name Guitar Crusher. “I was more into my own vibes. I was into my music in school, I ain’t really cared about the teaching and all that stuff.” But he was always making music. 1 Desiigner - Panda Remix Lyrics (Intro) (Chorus) Bitch I come wit the pandas We don’t come from atlanta But my homies reppin bandanas They sippin sprite but I got fanta Blowing up, Cannon Showing. But I wasn’t a bad troublemaker, ya feel me?” Desiigner tells Billboard. Before his meteoric rise, Selby was just a kid living in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. “I was a troublemaker a little bit.

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