Since those changes, we’ve seen meme-powered No. Billboard has only factored Spotify and other streaming services into the Hot 100 for four years now, and YouTube views for three. radio audience last week, miles below current hits by Justin Bieber, Lukas Graham, and Mike Posner. In fact, “Panda” had only the 27 th biggest U.S. Odds are, unless you live in a major metropolitan area with a wealth of hip-hop–bumping cars, you aren’t hearing “Panda” out in public much. 1 hit’s chart points are from streaming, not radio or track sales. Billboard reports that Desiigner got there largely through the likes of Spotify and YouTube. 1 almost exclusively through streaming, the path “Panda” took to the top looks very much like the future. Menace’s infectious, thumping track, punctuated by claps and snare hits, was punched up by Desiigner with chopsocky-style yelps and machine-gun-fire–like trills. That “gritty and gory” backing track was created by Manchester, U.K., native Adnan “Menace” Khan, himself a neophyte striver who boasts at the start of his track that he’s “the hottest producer with the hottest beats on the net” but sold this beat to young Brooklynite Selby last year for just $200. Though the song materialized on SoundCloud in December, it was based around a beat that had been kicking around since 2014. As recently as late last year, few even in rap circles knew much about Desiigner, born Sidney Selby III in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood just 19 years ago (which makes him barely old enough to remember when Bed-Stuy was “do or die”). What’s remarkable about “Panda” is how fast it shot to the top of the charts at a time when spacey trap anthems generally don’t go to No.
Like generations of shit-talkers before him, “Panda”’s narrator flaunts his ride as a status symbol and a signifier of his street savvy: “Black X6, Phantom/ White X6 looks like a panda/ Goin’ out like I’m Montana-hundred killers, hundred hammers.” The song is part of the synth-heavy, druggy hip-hop subgenre trap, which dates to the ’90s but for much of the last decade has picked up where gangsta rap and its offshoots left off. Specifically, it’s an ode to a hotly coveted white edition of the BMW model X6, whose front grille strongly resembles a panda bear. “Panda”-which, by the way, is not some nationally coordinated pop culture punking of Slate’s own Asian-bear-loathing David Plotz, delightful as that would be-is basically a car song, crossed with a drug song. The story starts with the song itself, which may as well be about a little white Corvette. What accounts for this fast rise by a debut single, from a dude so new to the rap game he could probably barely afford a used Corolla, let alone a Bimmer? 1 on the chart with “Work.” Two months later, “Panda” is the giant-killer that ejected “Work” after the latter’s nine-week run on top of the chart (the second-longest No. The track debuted on the Hot 100 in early March, one week after Rihanna and Drake took over No. Music label in February, after self-releasing “Panda” in December. Music project, L.O.D., before departing to release subsequent records-such as 2020’s Diamonds Forever-through his independent label LOD Records.Mind you, Desiigner only signed to West’s G.O.O.D. In 2018, Desiigner dropped his final G.O.O.D.He also appears on Steve Aoki’s hit remix of K-pop outfit BTS’ 2017 single “Mic Drop.” His 2016 single “Tiimmy Turner” slipped into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Desiigner appeared on the 2016 XXL Freshman Class list and received a Best Rap Performance Grammy nomination for “Panda.”.Music, landed two features on Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, and issued his debut full-length, New English, which peaked at No. In 2016, Desiigner inked a deal with G.O.O.D.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has garnered more than 900 million streams across platforms. Inspired by the look of a white BMW X6, “Panda” hit No.Desiigner is the grandson of blues musician Sidney “Guitar Crusher” Selby, whom he cites as his biggest influence.1 hit in 2016 with “Panda.” The single is built on a beat he purchased for $200. Brooklyn rapper Desiigner scored a surprise No.
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