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- "Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda."
- Just looking at the lyrics, I'd say the song sucks.
- It's all the same words.
That's like, "Work, work, work, work, work.
Work, work, work, work, work."
- It sounds like a panda bear.
- I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with pandas.
But it's something black and white.
- "I got broads in Atlanta. Twistin' dope, lean, and the Fanta.
Credit cars and the scammers. Hittin' off licks in the bando."
- "I got broads..." That means, "I have a girl," right?
- Well, he's a player obviously.
He reminds me of Snoop's lyrics.
- Sounds to me like they're taking drugs
and something about lean. I don't know.
- "Credit cards and the scammers."
I guess a lot of thieving on credit cards.
- The bando is probably his group, his band.
- Are they licking each other in the band?
(chuckling) I don't know!
- "Black X6, Phantom. White X6 look like a panda.
Goin' out like I'm Montana. Hundred killas, hundred hammers."
- "Phantom." Are they talking about cars?
- "Black X6, Phantom." It's probably a Rolls-Royce.
- There was Montie Montana and Hannah Montana.
I don't think they're talking about that.
- "Goin' out like I'm Montana."
Does that have something to do with--
oh, are you nude?
Like Miley likes to be?
- Montana, I think Al Pacino played the Cuban drug dealer.
- A lot of definitions could apply to hammers.
In a military sense, when somebody said, "Bring me the hammer,"
that means, "Bring me the biggest gun you can carry."
- "Pockets swole, Danny. Sellin' bar, candy.
Man, I'm the macho like Randy. The choppa go Oscar for Grammy."
- "Bitch," yeah, "pull up ya panty.
Hope you killers understand me." Killas, killas.
- "Pockets swole." He's doing well. His pockets are filled.
"Sellin' bar, candy." That's probably selling drugs.
- The only part I think I understand is, "macho like Randy."
Like the wrestler?
- "The choppa go Oscar for Grammy."
Like, maybe they got an Oscar for best picture and a Grammy.
I don't know. They got it all.
- "Pull up ya panty."
This one makes more sense. Like, lady grow up.
- "Hope you killas understand me."
I don't get that line at all. I don't know what it means.
- "Hope you killas understand me." Yeah, well, we don't.
Well, maybe they do. I don't.
- "Wake up Versace shit, life Desiigner.
Whole bunch of lavish shit.
They be askin' 'round town who be clappin' shit."
- "I be pullin' up stuff in the Phantom ship.
I got plenty of stuff of Bugatti whip
look how I drive this shit."
- This person must be-- has everything that they ever asked for.
- I don't know. (claps)
I don't know what "clappin' shit"-- like, stealing maybe.
- He's pulling up stuff in his Rolls-Royce.
"I got plenty of stuff of Bugatti,"
which is a nicer car than the Rolls-Royce.
- "Look how I'm doing, how well I'm doing.
I'm driving all this stuff around.
I'm driving these beautiful cars."
- This guy is... young, wealthy.
And he's just, "Just at me. I got it."
-"Pop a Perc. I can't stand up.
Gorilla, they come and kill you with bananas."
- "Four fillas, they finna pull up in the Phantom.
Know," (hums) "they come and kill you on the camera."
- Poppin' pills.
If you pop too many Percs, you're not gonna walk far.
- You can hardly kill anybody with bananas, you know?
So you're probably just not even hurting anyone.
- Here comes four people, and they pull up in this fancy car.
- And they're brothers... brothers with skin like mine.
- People you know, they come and kill you on the camera.
They don't care that someone's filming or there's cameras there.
- I worked for many years with young people in ghetto areas.
I know a lot of mafia people in New York,
so I know what their life is like.
- "I got n-star-as that countin' for digits.
Say you make a lot of new money."
- "Know some killas pull off and they in the Wraith.
CTD, pull up in the killa Bape."
- I'm not gonna say the asterisks. I'm just not gonna do it.
To hell with it.
I heard too many shitty jokes when I was a kid and laughed at 'em.
And I can't make up for that.
- He's counting his money, because a lot of drugs came in.
What's a Wraith? - (Katie) It's a car.
- Oh. I never heard of that car.
- I'm beginning to see that killas are like his associates.
- High-end money, high-end drugs, high-end cars.
- "Pull up in the killa Bape."
I don't know what a Bape is, to be honest.
I never heard that expression before.
- "Call up Phillip-Phillip, gon' fill the bank.
N's up in the bank. We gon' drill the bank.
[Bleep] we gon' kill the bank, get it."
- "Drill the bank." Are they trying to rob the bank?
- They're gonna fill the bank with guys who are gonna rob it.
- Gonna kill the bank.
Gonna get everything, kill everybody that's there, I guess.
- That's nice. (cracks up)
What happened to people going out and earning money?
- This is a real dose of reality and what's in the street.
And like I say, I don't think
we should ignore what's in the street.
But I feel bad for children growing up
with this as a strong influence.
- "I got broads, yea, I get it.
I get cards, yea, I shitted."
- "This how I live it. Did it all for a ticket."
- He has girls, and he's probably gambling.
He's playing cards.
- "Cards."
Does he mean credit cards?
- "This how I live it. Did it all for a ticket."
A ticket to the good life, I would think.
- You know, you can't buy love, but you can rent it.
(chortles) Sounds like he's got plenty of rent money.
- "I be gettin' to the chicken. Countin' to the chicken.
And all of my n's gon' split it."
- I don't know what chicken means.
For me, because before, during my time,
"chicken" means "chicks," like girls.
- So is "chicken" referring to money?
And he's gonna share it with his homeys.
- The chicken is some sort of goal.
Once we get there, we're gonna split it,
which led me to believe it's either drugs or money.
- "Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda."
- "Panda, Panda, Panda." (sighs)
- I really don't know what Panda means.
- Only thing: panda's black and white,
which they refer to a little bit with the cars early on.
- I don't get it. I don't know. I don't like this song.
Maybe because I'm afraid of it 'cause I don't understand it.
Ha-ha!
- (Katie) So what do you think the song was about?
- Gangster life and what they do.
- How great they are, how they've gotten over selling drugs.
Have all the goods, have all the bling.
- It sends out a message to young people
about how to try to be successful,
(chuckling) not in the right way.
- (Katie) Do you know the song's title and artist?
- No.
-No.
- I do not.
- I don't know.
- (speaks gibberish) I don't know.
- Panda, "Phantom"?
- Could it be "Panda"?
- I do not. It's probably "Panda."
- (Katie) The song is "Panda" by the artist Desiigner.
- Oh, okay.
- "Desiigner." Okay.
- I apologize, Desiigner.
You don't know me, but I don't know you either.
- I only know Bocelli, (giggles) Frank Sinatra.
- I saw his name was in there, and I thought it was misspelled,
with two I's in it, so know I understand the misspell--
er, the different spelling.
- (Katie) Panda's referring to the white BMW X6
with tinted windows, because it resembles a panda.
Inspiration hit him while playing Grand Theft Auto V.
- (snickering)
Oh, I've played Grand Theft Auto.
- I was not able to gather one thing from this lyric
that had anything to do with Grand Theft Auto.
- (Katie) So what do you think about this kind of a song
being a hit? - Well, it works for him.
People want to hear this kind of stuff.
- I think it's a sad commentary
that this is the image that young people would go for.
- When his words are so magical,
when his ability to put them together are so magical,
it's sad to me that we're glorifying these things.
I try never to really look at it too hard,
because it makes me feel really bad.
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