--- title: Street Drummer Plays a Solo of Desiigner's Timmy Turner description: Watch street drummer Malik Stewart take Desiigner's rap song to new heights with an elaborate snare drum solo remix on the streets of D.C. canonical: https://time.com/4425049/watch-this-street-drummer-slay-a-solo-remix-to-desiigners-timmy-turner/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-26T21:25:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:49.437Z og:title: This Street Drummer Slays a Solo Remix to Desiigner og:description: Watch him take Desiigner's rap song to new heights with mad snare drum skills. og:url: https://time.com/4425049/watch-this-street-drummer-slay-a-solo-remix-to-desiigners-timmy-turner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Street Drummer Slays a Solo Remix to Desiigner twitter:description: Watch him take Desiigner's rap song to new heights with mad snare drum skills. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Street Drummer Slay a Solo Remix to Desiigner's 'Timmy Turner' > Sponsored content. 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More than 25,000 retweets later, even [Desiigner himself has given](http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/26/desiigner-tiimmy-turner-snare-drum-cover-washington-malik-stewart) Stewart props for his impressive take on the beat-heavy tune, commenting on an Instagram post of the performance with a fire and rocket emoji. At one point in the clip, Stewart — who keeps things interesting with fancy footwork and plenty of tosses and spins of his drumsticks — even drops one of his sticks. But he continues the song without skipping a beat. Literally. > [](https://twitter.com/Hawillisdc/status/757755090107297792) And that song he’s riffing on? You might have heard Kanye protégé Desiigner’s [earworm “Panda” before](http://time.com/4368704/desiigner-vogue-debut-panda-video/?iid=sr-link1). He released the follow-up, “Timmy Turner” just last week [after teasing it for months](http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2016/07/timmy-turner-twitter-reacts/), and it was quickly [Kanye-West-approved](https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/756582317762555904), too. (And yes, [the song title is a reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FFairly%5FOddParents) to Nickelodeon’s _Fairly Oddparents_ cartoon, popular in the early 2000s.) 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