Off of Panda’s international success, it has drawn many comparisons and all to Future. First it was Desiigner sounding exactly like Future (voice, flow & ad libs), than it was producer Jermaine Dupri who after experimenting on some turntables, realized the beat to Future’s song “F Up Some Commas” had the exact same beat to “Panda”. Incredible coincidence or two “copycats” ? The world decides.
In an interview with HipHopDX, the Manchester producer Menace fires back at the allegations:
“Because in the song ‘F*ck Up Some Commas,’ the main sound is a piano, where as mine is a synth sound. And mine keeps going where as ‘F*ck Up Some Commas’ goes and stops. And my drums as well; that’s the main difference you can tell, my drums are more hard-knocking than ‘Fuck Up Some Commas.'”
He than went on to say that the beat itself was more influenced by U.K. Grime music than Trap:
“Grime is the UK scene, And grime is an energetic type of form of music that can be 140 BPM but an ‘explode-in-your-face’ type of music. And the BPM’s on both beats, they don’t match as well. Mine is faster. Much, much faster.”
Menace was virtually unknown, like Desiigner, until the success of “Panda” stormed the charts, radio and internet in a frenzy. What we know of Menace is that he’s a 23 year old producer from the U.K and so far has given beats to the likes of Desiigner, Lil Wayne, French Montana, Ty Dolla $ign, and Vado.
