Desiigner is riding high on the success of his single ‘Panda’ which continues to sit on top of the Billboard charts this week and was certified Platinum with the RIAA a few days ago. And since he’s signed to G.O.O.D. Music, he obviously gets a lot of perks behind the scenes.
Mike Dean did an interview with Billboard recently where he revealed that he will be executive producing Desiigner’s upcoming debut album.
How is it working with Desiigner?
He’s a lot more of an artist than you think he is. He’s not just some Future knockoff. He talks like that — he sounds like he’s got Auto-Tune on his voice in real life. He talks like Future raps, which is weird.
It’s crazy he’s from Brooklyn.
I don’t know where he got his music influence. Just like that old shit that I had, the shit with A$AP Rocky and Yams and all that shit. Like Yams said they grew up on that music on the Internet. Me and Plain Pat were talking about Desiigner. To older people, listening to music is like soul music or old rock music. To Desiigner though [what’s out now] is all the music he knows.
Mike also seemed excited about working with Kid Cudi again and said he’s glad that Cudder is rapping again. He added, “We spent a couple of weeks in L.A. just working on songs for him. “The Frequency” came out of that. We’ve got a good part of an album started. He’s rapping again, which is really dope. Back to his essence. We both had birthdays in the studio last month and we were both together on both birthdays, so it was a cool time. He would just jump on the mic and make a song in like five minutes.”