Sean Garrett f. Gucci Mane, “Up In Your Heart” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Thome Anderson (F55)
“Get Up In Your Heart” might rival “Mind Sex” as far as songs that are meant to be romantic but end up being weird and awkward. On this one, all the right pieces are in place: a brief and tight verse from Gucci, a Bangladesh beat that takes baby steps away from “A Milli,” and Sean Garrett singing about always wearing wife beaters, which actually might not be a lie at all.
Download: Sean Garrett f. Gucci Mane, “Up In Your Heart”
Freeload: Bangladesh – Passport Music Mixtape hosted by Don Cannon
- story THE FADER
Most of the world now knows Bangladesh as the dude who made a bunch of money off basically the same beat twice with Wayne’s “A Milli” and Beyoncé’s “Diva,” which we can identify with because we ate slices from the same pizza twice for dinner and breakfast. It’s called recessionomics, suckers, and hustlers like us know how to do it. Those two beats are on Bangladesh’s new mixtape along with a bunch of other new, new-ish and straight up old joints with the man himself rapping on them instead of the superstars who bought them from him. Also onboard are his buddies Muffy and Tom Foolery with obligatory explosions and shouting by our dude Don Cannon.
Download: Bangladesh – Passport Music Mixtape hosted by Don Cannon
Video: Busta Rhymes, “I Got Bass”
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There is not much else we can add to our feelings about this song that wasn’t expressed in our original post of the mp3. In the video, Busta pulls himself out of his shoe, then smells it and makes a stink face, which is the opposite of how we feel about it but it’s getting to be winter and people get down on themselves.
Freeload: Muffy, “Dope Boi” (prod Bangladesh)
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Muffy seems like a nice girl and all, with her blue/purple/pink hair and bathroom-in-the-club YouTube soliloquies, but this song is all about our man Bangladesh, who’s taken her under his productive wing. We’re not sure how new the beat is, but as far as his post-”A Milli” work goes, this is the biggest departure we’ve heard. Four tempo changes, loungey breakdowns, a disco bridge and an interpolation of “Percolator” all within its three minutes and fifty-one seconds has us doing rapid costume changes like we are on Puttin’ on the Hits.
Download: Muffy, “Dope Boi” (prod Bangladesh)
Freeload: Bangladesh f. Rick Ross & Busta Rhymes, “Girls Love Me”
- story THE FADER
Almost every time we write about Bangladesh we talk about how his music sounds like a real life terror. Sometimes he sounds like swarm of bees and other times like an out of control ice cream truck. Basically, what we’re trying to get across is that dude consistently makes the most listenable songs out of the most unlistenable sounds. “Girls Love Me” doesn’t use any of those wild and crazy sounds, unless you count light hand drums as crazy, which we actually do since most rap these days sounds like a volcano on South Beach. Also, Bangladesh is a master at coaxing out the version of Busta Rhymes that we like, the one that takes huge gulps of air until his verse and then doesn’t breathe once for like two minutes.
Download: Bangladesh f. Rick Ross & Busta Rhymes, “Girls Love Me”
Freeload: Busta Rhymes, “I Got Bass” (Prod. By Bangladesh)
- story THE FADER
Just for the record, Bangladesh also made the beat for Ciara’s “Hot Line,” and that is when we were like “Why does this Ciara song sound like spiders and creeping death?” and then thinking about this right now we were like “Can this dude give Nas some beats? Or at least Clipse before they take anything else from Scott Storch? Or maybe he should bring back Lumidee and make her the Cassie to his Ryan Leslie?” Or he could just squelch the bass for Busta Rhymes over and over. But is that even a bass line? This is acid house rap (no Tyree).This is the sound that makes dogs die. But right before they die it feels better than they’ve ever felt before.
Download:Busta Rhymes, “I Got Bass”
Video: Polow And Bangladesh At Castle T-Pania
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There literally is not one person who appears or is talked about in this newest episode of Bangladesh TV, filmed at a T-Pain album party, who hasn’t been in the pages of The FADER. In fact, the one dude doing most of the talking, Polow Da Don, shared an issue with Bill Callahan, successfully forming one of our oddest cover duos ever (Smog not big triangle samples and goblin voices, maybe should be). The best thing about the video though is that those of us who didn’t get to interview Polow for that story can now imagine how much fun it must have been listening to him talk this fast about Rich Boy for three days.
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posted on Jul 8, 2008 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Bangladesh, David Banner, hip hop, Kardinal Offishal, Polow da Don, Static Major, T-Pain
Freeload: Charlie Mackenroe, “Amilly” (Produced by Bangladesh)
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Our pal Likkle Wayne recently announced that he’s scrapping all the skits on his forthcoming The Carter III LP, and will instead use that audio real estate to showcase rap young’uns like Lil Mama (and Lil Chuckee!) spitting over his own “A Millie.” Yet that looping monster of a beat, produced by ATLien and FADER favorite Bangladesh, once was the sole posession of Bang’s group, Charlie Mackenroe, waaaaaaaay back in those bygone days of Summer 2007. We went spelunking in the ol’ mp3 archive and dug it up for you, complete with the OG spelling. Why? Not to suggest any underhanded beat jackery on the part of Weezy F, or even to floss our digital crates (ok, maybe a teensy bit of flossing). Just consider this post a simple PSA for aspiring artists: DON’T GIVE YOUR GROUP A PERSON NAME. IT NEVER EVER EVER WORKS. Sure, the Van Halens of the world make the case for an exception—but there’s no one in Charlie Mackenroe even named Charlie! They should have seen this one coming. Tanya Morgan! Chester French! It’s not too late! Check the F40 Beat Construction on Bangladesh (along with another CM heater) right here.
Download: Charlie Mackenroe, “Amilly” (produced by Bangladesh)
