

Sure, he released a poorly received mixtape in June, the repetitive and drill-derivative New English, but it didn't kill his momentum so much as briefly pause it. It's probably the song of summer 2016.īy any measurement, Desiigner is having a great summer. Months later, it's still the song you're most likely to hear blasting from a car driving by on a hot day. Unlike any of the tracks on West's album - or any song released by Future, the artist Desiigner is most often (unfairly) accused of sounding like - "Panda" became the No. Music label, and quickly, "Panda" was climbing up the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In February, West signed the "Panda" MC to his G.O.O.D. If you casually follow rap music, you probably first heard the grimy beat of "Panda" at West's much-hyped MSG album-release party and fashion show and thought, "What the hell is this?" Then you replayed that part. 2" off his magnum opus The Life of Pablo. As it bubbled up through the internet, the pounding all-chorus track caught the ear of Kanye West, who sampled over a minute of the song on "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. In December last year, Desiigner uploaded "Panda," a song with a beat by 22-year-old Manchester, UK producer Adnan "Menace" Khan that he bought for $200, to his YouTube and SoundCloud pages. Granted, he has very little to be chill about. "I'm trying to be chill a little bit," he said, practically vibrating with energy.
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Standing next to pre-show host Lizzo on a stage outside of Madison Square Garden, across the river from his Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the 19-year-old Brooklyn rapper looked resplendent, a gravelly voiced sunbeam pulsating through your TV screen. On Sunday night, Desiigner arrived at the MTV Video Music Awards clad in a salmon-colored suit with no shirt beneath his jacket. We're not ready to say goodbye just yet: all this week we're giving shout-outs to our favorite pop-culture moments of summer 2016, so that we can keep the good times rolling into the fall.
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The summer - a time for playing songs loudly on your car radio, staycation binge-watching shows you've neglected, and chilling out with movie theater air conditioning - is nearly over.
