Desiigner's Freestyle Analysis

Earlier this year, XXL magazine released a video of Desiigner performing a freestyle titled “Timmy Turner”, a bit that surprised a lot of hip hop followers who believed that the guy who delivered “Panda” would be yet another one hit wonder. However, the small, 46-second video upended everybody’s expectations of the young rapper, and created a huge hype over the Internet. Desiigner’s freestyle is everything “Panda” is not: impromptu, melodically complex and sung gently in a hushed voice, rather than rapped in an aggressive style. Because of the ridiculous success that the freestyle had, Desiigner decided to release a full radio version of the song that had the same melodic, catchy hook placed right at the beginning of the piece.
Mike Dean, producer and sound engineer that has worked closely with Kanye West on multiple projects in the past, produced the song for Desiigner. The song has a hypnotic vibe, and anybody who listens to it will notice the mysterious ambiance that the song creates.
Over the course of the song, we hear “Panda” specific sounds that the energetic Desiigner incorporates into his music, we get to hear his signature catchphrases. The verse starts off with a simple keyboard melodic sequence played in the background of Desiigner’s modest
Because of his strange style of rapping, Desiigner doesn’t always get the message through as his verses prove to be quite difficult to understand by everybody. This is where Kanye West comes in with his remix of “Timmy Turner” and makes the song better by making it more intelligible for the listeners, by simplifying it. The remix is a proof of the skills Kanye West has in terms of producing, as he takes the best parts of the song and incorporates it into his own, creating a better piece overall in my