Desiigner Says “Panda” Lyric Was Inspired by Grand Theft Auto and the Panda Emoji
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After swinging through Genius to read the words of “Panda” earlier this week, Desiigner took some time to annotate the lyrics of his hit song.
“It was inspired by GTA,” he says of the panda lyric. “I’m in the crib. I got the beat from one of my dudes. He said ‘whip it up.’ Gave it to me, whipped it up and I was thinking of Grand Theft Auto. I had just seen the Panda emoji. My mind was thinking about all these things throughout the week. It happened like that. I was thinking about Fast and Furious, racing. And I saw the white X6 outside.”
He went on to explain that the “Pockets swole Danny” line refers to Danny DeVito—specifically a nod to another song he recorded that’s named after the actor. Finally, he gave the background story on the famous “broads in Atlanta” line.
“The fact is that Facebook is this lit: I did have a bitch in Atlanta,” he said. “It’s just like that. I had a bitch in Atlanta and I was saying real life shit. I still was talking to someone in Atlanta so it was just like, ‘I got broads in Atlanta.’ Chick is a broad and that was the slang I was using at the time.”
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