We haven’t gotten too many interviews from Desiigner since his breakout hit “Panda,” but he sat down with Pusha T for Interview Magazine and got pretty candid recently!
One thing we learned about the Brooklyn native is that he comes from a musical background, and his grandfather was actually a blues player!
“[My grandfather is] a blues player. I like the old soul—you know how it is, Pusha, that old soul. My grandfather, he went by the name Sidney ‘Guitar Crusher’ Selby; he formed that old soul, that old blues, that old rock that I put on my songs. He bluesed it out. And my pops, he was old-school, too; he played that old funk. I fell in love with that old style.”
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He also revealed how he used to flex his own musical chops as a kid:
“I used to sing to the girls, ‘Happy Birthday’ and all that. Did the Temptations. I always knew how to play around with my voice, make people laugh. I’d be crazy. Just my swag I guess. God blessed me.”
Read the full interview here!
"Yo, Pusha, what's good?"—@LifeOfDesiigner interviewed by @PUSHA_T for our October issue https://t.co/PysXhoVTMR pic.twitter.com/wOGoF7kTki
— Interview Magazine (@InterviewMag) October 17, 2016
