Keen to replicate profit-swelling success stories of yesteryear record labels often use model their new artists on the artists who came before them.
Janet-Britney
Madonna- Lady Gaga
Anita Baker – Toni Braxton
Mary J. Blige – Keyshia Cole- K. Michelle
Beyonce- Rihanna
Gwen Stefani- Charli XCX.
For one reason or another, this practice isn’t always as obvious when the artists are men, perhaps because said labels rarely require male artists to look like the artists they are pulling from.
Unfortunately for Future, he has learned just how problematic this trend can be when a new musician succeeds in “borrowing” their sound.
For, after he was accused of “borrowing” his style from T-Pain, he has been forced to watch the rise of the charismatic and eerily identical Desiigner and his smash hit single ‘Panda.’
Why his thunder-stealing ascent is set to rub the Southern star the wrong way once more?
Desiigner’s decision to cover his latest single…
Desiigner’s decision to perform the number may be his way of responding to Future’s recent spread in ‘Rolling Stone.’
In it, the performer asks the publication to omit any mention of the ‘Panda’ purveyor.
They didn’t.