On the latest episode of Joe and Jada, Fat Joe said that he saw Desiigner at an airport before the “Timmy Turner” rapper’s indecent exposure incident in 2023.
Fat Joe and Jadakiss were discussing one-hit wonders in hip-hop when Jada brought up Desiigner’s breakthrough hit “Panda.”
“Oh, yo, ‘Panda, Panda,’ is the one,” Joe said with a laugh. “He sold 10 million on that, right?”
Jada said that Desiigner made “a shit load of money” off the track, to which Joe then mentioned Desiigned “jerking” on an airplane.
“You know what’s crazy? I seen him in Dubai in the airport that day,” Joe said. “The same fucking day. He seemed so normal. I’m like, ‘Yo, what’s up, man?’ Then the next thing I know, when I arrive in the States … Tumblin’ dice.”
In 2023, Desiigner pleaded guilty to indecent exposure after he bared himself to a flight attendant on an airplane journey from Tokyo to Minneapolis. He was also accused of masturbating and ordered to register as a sex offender.
The following year, he suggested that his vegan diet at the time was partly to blame for the incident. In an interview with Adam22 of No Jumper, the Brooklyn-born artist said he was “fully tweaked out” during the plane journey and wasn’t fully aware of his behavior.
“I didn’t have enough sugars and stuff like that,” he said. “I was kind of, like, out of my body. … It really wasn’t who my character was. I was on medication and just went to sleep on the plane.”
Desiigner, given name Sidney Royel Selby III, also revealed that when he arrived back in the U.S., he was greeted by the FBI and was asked why he allegedly pleasured himself in his seat during the flight. He admitted he was worried he would be depicted as “a pervert” following the incident.
