Via | Billboard
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“I got broads in Atlanta,” the opening line to Desiigner‘s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Panda,” is simple, memorable, irresistible — and not totally true. “I’ve never been to Atlanta,” he admits sheepishly. Barely old enough to be called a millennial, the Brooklyn rapper born Sidney Selby III, 19, cites a more prosaic inspiration: a girl he met on Facebook. “We never met in person,” he says. “She just said she was from ATL, so I was like, ‘All right — I got broads in Atlanta.’ It’s real life, you feel me? I put real-life shit in my songs.”
Most of the boastful imagery in “Panda” — women in far-flung cities, “pockets swole” with money, luxury cars — is only just becoming reality for Desiigner: After Kanye Westsampled it for his The Life of Pablo album, “Panda” hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in April, spending two weeks at the summit (it’s now No. 2).
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