Now, however, Bed-Stuy is one of New York’s most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, and local hustlers, once lionized by Brooklyn legends like The Notorious B.I.G., Big Daddy Kane and Lil Kim, include realtors flipping million-dollar brownstones. “It’s not the place you really want to be,” he says. Avenue, after a 19-year-old Louis Armstrong resident was killed by police in an accidental shooting in 2004. Desiigner’s block, Lexington Avenue, is also named Timothy Stansbury Jr. He was raised in the Louis Armstrong Houses, a public housing development a short walk from the Marcy Houses - made famous by former tenant Jay Z - and the street where Spike Lee filmed Do the Right Thing in 1989. “Out” means out of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Brooklyn neighborhood where Desiigner grew up. I used to sing in the subways - I didn’t see no other way out.” I was David Ruffin in The Temptations,” he says, also citing Jade’s 1992 single “ Don’t Walk Away” as an early favorite. I was the ladies’ man - I performed ‘My Girl’ in the cafeteria. Time spent in church choir and school plays helped him develop as a performer.
His grandfather, the first Sidney Selby, earned the name “Guitar Crusher” performing with acts like The Drifters and The Isley Brothers. Though he’s new to the charts, Desiigner has been around music his whole life. Watch Desiigner Read His Wild ‘Panda’ Lyrics Clad in a slim-cut black leather jacket, the 6-foot-5 artist commands attention even without his onstage antics (at South by Southwest, he vomited in the middle of a song - and kept performing). The song is, after all, inspired by a white BMW X6, whose grill makes it look like a panda (he first noticed the car while playing Grand Theft Auto V). On a cloudy late-spring afternoon, Desiigner, who still only has his learner’s permit, is perusing cars at BMW’s Manhattan showroom with his manager and a Def Jam rep. 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 West sampled 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.
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