It spends a second week atop the Streaming Songs chart, with 35 million overall U.S. Music (founded by Kanye West) and label Def Jam, darts 2-1 on the Hot 100. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday. Plus, Drake vaults to the Hot 100’s top five with “One Dance.”Īs we do every Monday, let’s run down the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. 1 on the Hot 100 after a record 41-week streak of leaders by foreign artists. The Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York rapper halts the nine-week reign of Rihanna‘s “Work,” featuring Drake, and brings an American act to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated May 7). 28.Desiigner‘s debut hit “Panda” pounces to No. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if he takes home a Moon Man at the Video Music Awards on Sunday, Aug. It’s too bad “Panda” didn’t include a direct reference to a VMA win. More: The 2016 MTV VMA nominations are out, and Nick Jonas is not pleased Everything I’m saying in my song is coming to life,” he said. Later, Desiigner declares himself a luxury commodity with lyrics like “Credit cards and the scammers / Wake up Versace shit, life Desiigner / Whole bunch of lavish shit / They be askin’ ‘round town who be clappin’ shit.” In the Genius interview, he explained the line “Go Oscar for Grammy” as aspirational. The BMW X6 is a luxury car that pre-hit Desiigner could only dream of getting his hands on. In “Panda,” Desiigner raps about the life he sees for himself.
But more important, “Panda” is a song about wish fulfillment luxury, something made explicitly clear in the official music video, which sees Desiigner stealing a luxury car.
“Sellin’ bar, candy / Man I’m the macho like Randy,” for example, references Xanax bars and WWE wrestler Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Peppered throughout the quick verses are references to celebrities and drugs. Of course, Desiigner doesn’t spend three minutes just rapping about a car. More: Britney Spears is giving you a chance to be her VMAs date, for a good cause “Panda” is really a not-so-subtle ode to a BMW X6. My mind was thinking about all these things throughout the week. According to Desiigner, he was thinking about Grand Theft Auto and The Fast and the Furious when he saw a white X6 that reminded him of the Panda emoji - no, I’m not kidding. In that same interview, Desiigner explained his real-life experience that inspired the song. The White X6 with the black windows.” I’ll let you judge for everyday when i see the white 圆 at my work i think 🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼😂😂 /wqLYckTcOE In an interactive lyric interview on, Desiigner commented on these very lines, writing, “That’s a fact. In fact, Desiigner explicitly explains this in the song: “Black X6, Phantom / White X6 look like a panda,” he declares in the hook. No, instead he’s talking about a special white BMW model X6 car, whose black detailing on the front makes it vaguely resemble a panda. Cuddly Asian bears are not on Desiigner’s mind. Luckily for you, I have taken a dive into the nearly incomprehensible lyrics to “Panda” and returned with something of a meaning.įirst things first: Desiigner is not, nor has he ever (to my knowledge) been, rapping about actual pandas. It could be because of Desiigner’s fast mumbles, exclamations and slightly auto-tuned tone, or it could be because the lyrics themselves make no sense. But what truly separates “Panda” from other huge hits like Justin Bieber’s “Baby” or Drake’s “Hotline Bling” is that nobody - and I do mean nobody - seems to have any idea what Desiigner is rapping about. Even I - a girl who doesn’t listen to the radio or check out what’s hot on Spotify - haven’t escaped its wide reach. 1 on the Billboard charts in April, and it’s been inescapable ever since. More: Let’s talk about the feud that may be brewing between Nick and Joe Jonas
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