Bangladesh Ends ‘A Milli” Beef With Rapper Lil Wayne
December 17, 2010
According to Allhiphop.com, Bangladesh has ended his feud with Lil Wayne. The Atlanta-based producer just laced Weezy with the his latest hit 6’7″, the first single from Tha Carter IV. The beat samples Harry Belafonte’s “Banana Boat Song.”
“I wasn’t getting paid royalties, that was the issue. But recently it’s been cleared up and everything that’s owed will be paid out and everything in the future will be handled properly,” Bangladesh told AllHipHop.com. “It wasn’t me who made this decision, Lil Wayne wanted these beats, because I didn’t know what the relationship was.”
Bangladesh had done several interviews complaining that he hadn’t been paid royalties for producing “A Milli”, one of the biggest songs on Tha Carter III. But everything is good now.
How did the beef get squashed? Get more details at Allhiphop.com.
Bangladesh Admits “This Particular Leak Was My Fault”
August 4, 2010
In this sit down with DJ Skee Bangladesh owns up to the mistake of leaking his own record with Gucci. Now I’m sure this isn’t the first time something like this has happened but it is the first time that I can remember any producer admitting it was their error. During the course of the interview he also speaks on some of his influences and where he gets his style from.
Bangladesh: “I Don’t F&CK With Lil Wayne And You Can Print That!”
May 4, 2010
Lil Wayne may be locked in Rikers Island away from the industry, but that’s not stopping some of his associates from handling business with him. Grammy award-winning producer, Shondrae “Bangladesh” Crawford has a bone to pick with Mr. Dwayne Carter. A $500,000 bone.
“I don’t fuck with [Lil Wayne]… and you can print that,” Bangladesh told VIBE, when asked if fans should anticipate a reunion come his 2011 release. “Cash Money don’t pay royalties. The Carter III, [is] his biggest album probably because of “A Millie.” [But] you have to sue these guys so that they pay up.”
The Atlanta beatmaker disclosed that he is suing for an estimated 500 Gs in owed royalty checks for his work on “A Millie,” one of Wayne’s most revered records of all time. A single that earned him Best Rap Solo Performance at the 2009 Grammy’s and gave The Carter III ammunition to sell a million records it’s first week of release in June 2008.
“It’s [Wayne and Baby's] responsibility to pay [me] because all the money from album sales goes to Cash Money. I get checks from Sony for Beyoncé, checks from different labels for different artists, it just comes to you. You don’t have to call them, sue them and all that junk. This is what you’re owed.”
Also check out this exclusive interview with Play N Skillz where they claim they weren’t suing Lil Wayne…yet.
Bangladesh On VIBE Producer Tournament: ‘Honestly, I’m Better Than All Them [Producers]‘
April 16, 2010
So much for not making any Joe-Budden like comments:
VIBE’s Best Producer Alive Bracket has been sparking plenty of industry opinions — over the past week, Ginuwine has praised and exposed Timbaland, will.i.am showed off his Teddy Riley stanmanship, 9th Wonder went wild over… himself, Dame Grease made a bold prediction and now award-winning producer, Bangladesh—who’s up against the more than well-respected DJ Premier—has a few words on his standing.
“I’m definitely deserving to be on the list as one of the best producers right now, but I wouldn’t say hip-hop. Probably the only hip-hop thing I made was ‘A Milli’ and that was probably the greatest beat of this era,” the Atlanta-based producer told VIBE. “I think if you really define hip-hop, Premier is really the best hip-hop producer. He’s amazing with samples… he’s the essence of hip-hop.”
Bangladesh joins other rappers such as: Havoc, Jam Master Jay, RZA and Q-Tip in the Boom-Bap category, but felt he belonged more in Mass Appeal, or even his own division. “I have a sound that the masses like. But I wouldn’t put myself in any of those categories. I’m probably in ‘The Most Creative’ box or ‘Most Against The Grain,’” he says.
“All the producers in ['Mass Appeal'], they strive for certain things,” he continued. “Like Polow will go in and say we need to make a pop record, we gotta make a Top 40 and that’s what he’ll make. See, I create organically and it becomes mass appealed. That’s why I feel like I’m better. I don’t do what is going to make me money or what the DJs are going to want to play. I just do me. And everything that I’ve done has been knocked down in the beginning, but at the end of the day it sticks to the walls. It don’t take a label to back it up, it just blows because people want different shit.”
Bangladesh, who is also responsible for Beyonce‘s “Diva” and “Radio Phone” as well as Mario‘s 2009 summer smash, “Break Up” continued his self-adamance. “Honestly, I’m better than all them peoples. I’m not disrespecting them because I was influenced by Timbaland and Neptunes and all of them, but your time came and went. There’s time for other things to happen.”
He had some particularly choice words for Powlow Da Don. READ THEM HERE.
VIDEO: Bangladesh & Don Cannon Get “Close Up”
April 9, 2009
Slumdog Bangladesh Millionaire
February 26, 2009
Interview with Rollingout TV found on HipHopStan.com. I hope he gets Shawnna back on her game soon.
Lil Wayne Producer Bangladesh Speaks on “A Milli”
June 19, 2008
With every rapper under the sun jumping on the instrumental to Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” the producer of the track Shondre “Bangladesh” Crawford put out a video discussing his rise to prominence. Peep it.
Some folks will probably known the man as Shondrae who has been putting down beats for Ludacris and DTP for years. But “A Milli” is clearly the beat he’s known for right now.
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