Producer Bangladesh scored one of the biggest hits of his career with Lil Wayne’s “A Milli,” 
released in 2008, and claims that it had a rippling effect on the future sound of Hip Hop. During an interview with The FADER, the Atlanta, Georgia-based musician said that the song had a profound impact on mainstream music.
“‘A Milli’ changed the sound of music. After that, every beat on the radio was like ‘A Milli’ snares. You hear that all day long. You still hear it, four years later,” he said.
He also discussed his beat-making process and how he culls sounds from odd places, such as his daughter’s toys or even her voice.
“As far as what was from the last beat, I’m onto new sounds. I get rid of those, I put new sounds in. I just get them from anywhere, really. Whenever I hear it. It could be my kid’s toys. It could be anything. It could be a voice. Like I want to sample my daughter, she be making that sound. It’s something she be doing, I hear a beat. I chop it, and make a beat. I get tired of it once I leave it. I don’t want to hear music. I don’t put CDs in or nothing like that.”
Bangladesh also touched on his influencers, naming Organized Noize and Timbaland as some of his favorite producers from back in the day. “I was influenced by great producers that rubbed off on me. It’s like Kobe watching Jordan. You’re going to be good if you’re inspired to play basketball and you’re watching Jordan, he’s going to inspire you to be better than what you would have been if you’ve never seen him. I think Organized Noize and Timbaland at the time, they were like that to me. I was like a Timbaland head, an Organized fanatic. I love the sounds they used. They changed the game at the time, and that influenced me to be a game-changer and producer.”
FUCK THIS NIGGA
cosign…as if this guy made “THE CHRONIC”, or something. s.m.h.
it sure did for the worse
oh no it’s not old school beats? how will we ever survive? ………fuck this site
Lmao changed music nigga please. That beat was garbage
Changed the game…..yet he’s suing for unpaid royalties on that record. YEEAAAAAA.
this guy never made a classic record, his music is forgotten after about a year lol
Really… I’m sure this nigga never heard of a song by the Neptunes called “Drop It Like It’s Hot”. Wasn’t “influenced” by that shit at all…
There is no point of you talking to this herb…. He clearly has never heard music pre 2008.
he’s right about that, it did change the sound of music…for the worse. he could say it sounds better than beethoven’s 9th symphony and still has to sue for royalties. SMH.
WOW!!! A vocal sample and an 808 sub… NOBODY’S DONE THAT SHIT BEFORE!!!!!!!
….LAME
WAYNE MADE THIS NIGGA. THAT BEAT WAS NOT THAT HOT. THIS IS THE MOST DELUSIONAL NIGGA IN HIPHOP I BET HE SAYS SOME SHIT LIKE HE STARTED THE TREND OF WEARING SHADES INSIDE NEXT
You gotta drink your on kool-aide before you can make other. However Bangladesh; drop it like it’s hot when you think you invented a sound drop it like it’s hot..drop it like it’s hot.
Oh god A Milli is just, Snoop’s Drop it Like it Hard. Geez! “Hey look the emporer wearing no clothes!”
A milli other people have used that snare before him.
LOL
wack producer with a HUGE ego
5 years from now nobody will be asking for a “bangladesh” banger
eminem
busta rhymes
lil wayne
notice a trend? washed up gay rappers rock his beats.
and then they don’t pay him.
then bangladesh cries on webcam, like a bitch.
just about every new rap artist that comes out now completly sucks and has an enflated ego.
jim jonsin is another queer producer who thinks he’s dope.
all these guys suck.
sweet beat on the eminem and royce project. NOT.
eminem has the worst ear for beats of all time, and he’s a stroke faced faggot.
bangladesh. nice name. his beats have no melody, no originality, and only crack babies think he’s dope.
stevie wonder changed music. james brown changed music. rakim changed music.
bangladesh dropped turd beats in the shittiest era of music ever.
game changers!
shut up faggot em has had a HUGE influence in music
wow!!just wow!!where do I start..no it was wack as fuck and to think it changed the sound of music is a fucking joke!shut your dumbass up that beat was nothing special you weirdo!
While I agree with some of you who’ve implied that Bangladesh is overrated and not that great of a producer, the guy ain’t lying when he said the sound of hip-hop (radio hip-hop anyway) changed after “A Milli” came out.
The actual snare sound wasn’t new, but that breakdown pattern of the snare has been used EXTENSIVELY since then (see producers like Jahlil Beats who use it in almost every track)… I’m not saying that’s a good thing either.
right. if anything he changed the sound of music for the worse. guy fucking stinks hope he gets sued for his back catalog and has to live out of his car.
Bangladesh says “insert some delusional bullshit”…. who cares?
Dis crazy ass nigga.
BULLSHIT! A MILLI dun change NUTTIN’!!
jesus christ is this amatuar producer serious? NOTHING changed after you produced that wackass song you fukkin idiot. that style was used in 2004 and that was heavily hated on because it makes peoples ears bleed.
REAL producers would laugh at your face for this beat.
dude got a face i would love to punch. sit down fool.
this nigga think he invented snare drums!!!
hell d4L used a casio keyboard riff, beatnuts sampled Sega video games, and Dre used Halloween vinyls. lol
Don’t sleep on Bangladesh’s creativity. Dude is a little gassed off himself but think about the song. Which one of yah’ll producers would have sampled an old Tribe track with Phife doing his Mutty Ranks patios and add 808s for a beat. It takes some balls 2 submit that as a track and even more 2 risk flowing over it. It reminds me of the Benjamin beat by DDot for Biggie and Junior Mafia. Simple as shit but highly addictive!
Bandgladesh did not sample the “A Milli,” it was by a producer named “Cha Lo.” People seem to forget that A Milli has a co-producer. Look him up, he produced Rich Boy’s “Drop”
Bangladesh has been around since 2000 when he produced on Ludacris’ “Back for the First Time”, including “What’s Your Fantasy”, so he has been around for a while. But that doesn’t give him the right to say that simple ass beat was all his swagger, when it wasn’t. Anyone can make that shit.
Bangladesh = Big Sean, the creators / HAHA
hahaha
…and if Bangladesh changed the sound of music, then Lex Luger innovated. / HAHA
lex did innovate duma**. every rapper thats making money has rapped to lex lugar.
BECAUSE EVERYBODY RAPPED ON HIS BEATS MEANS HE INNOVATED SOUND? HAHAHAHAHA
ur an idiot, lex luger innovated music not sound dumbass.
HAHAHA!!!
The people have spoken (or texted) Lame-ladesh. Get off your sizzerup and stfu. You ain’t God’s gift to music. That “A Milli” only good for subs in the car to floss on others bumping their stock systems. Wow big deal. Go cry to lil wayne.
Youtube Driicky Graham “Dial Tone” same style as a mili and Dance, but just like the concensus says, “Drop it like it’s hot” was before a mili Bangladesh so don’t be putting yourself on a pedestal but I will admit the trend started getting heavy on that when he started.
Whoa Mr.Bangladesh, you a lil bit too swagged out..calm the FUCK down, go back to da lab and make another beat lol.
I don’t know much about beat making but the beat for “A Milli” sounded really simple to me.
Da da da da
*higher note* Da da da da
*even higher note* da da da da daaaaaa
And then repeat for the rest of the song. I mean come on that’s about as complication as Hot Cross Buns. Ya know the 1st song you learn to play on your recorder in Elementary school…
Where’s Yadig? yo son, a new dick to suck over here.
instead of looking for “yadig”, you should be looking for you’re life, son.
yadig in disguise
Isn’t it weird that you replied to a comment asking the one who submitted it to look for his life, so where does that put your life after commenting on the same site and article?
Please. The joint wasn’t that revolutionary. Shit, producers have been doing tracks with loops like that since forever, RZA did it with Strokes of Death off supreme clientele. This dude needs to fall back with the ego
WTF??? really..are you F$%#in kidding me…yeah he changed beat making..the whole song was a bass and a snare and a repeated sample of “a milli a milli” I mean shit he gotta be mozart or something..get the fuck outa here with that
but he be hearing his daughter make sounds tho. he be wanting to sample his daughter. he dont wanna hear music.
it’s obvious by the lack of melody and feeling in his “beats”.
its hilarious not one person i know ever said “whats bangaldesh up to” and he changed the sound of music.
he be hearing his snare on the radio 4 years later. 4 years later radio still sucks.
“you bit my wack ass snare, all good, we innovate”
he’s right
when a milli dropped i thought it was the worst track on c3. 4 years later its the last wayne song im still bumping.
a milli = classic.
no dats tha Block is hot his only good song and classic.
A Milli has a co-producer named “Cha Lo.” He was the one who constructed the Phife Dog AMilli vocal sample, not Bangladesh. Look him up on on YouTube along with the original version. Bangladesh created the drums and likely sampled the intro.
LEON SYLVERS CHANGED THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
BANGLADESH HAD A HOT BEAT.
Some producers and artists these days have their heads up their own asses, thinking they are God’s gift to music and shit. The beats I hear are simple and mostly sound the same, and the lyrics a lot of rappers write are straight garbage or make no sense half the time. Fuck the a milli beat and this wack muthafucka.
Agreed. They make the most ridiculous claims about how they changed shit or started new trends, ones that have been around for ages.
lol i also agree. I know don’t know a whole lot about Bangladesh, but producers in general need to stop thinking their gods gift. A lot of producers these days have no formal training and recycle old shit thinking they started it. Why do you think Dr.Dre trained in classical music AFTER he made The Chronic and got famous, because he knew in reality that he wasn’t shit when it came to real musical knowledge, and within the entire world of producers he wasn’t given much respect He wanted to grow as an actual artists. Producers need to get of their high horse, technology and over saturation makes what these guys do half as hard as what it used to be. Also, don’t get me started on DJs. Why are some of these guys getting so popular? I’m not saying it doesn’t take skill to be a DJ, but its so easy to be one and sound somewhat decent because of the technology we have. My little 13 yro cousin makes good mixes, on his macbook.
A Milli was co-produced by “Cha Lo.”
I think he’s referring to using the snare in place of the kick drum luke you hear in niggaz in paris or big sean’s I do it, he is referring to the drum pattern the sample wasn’t irrelevant the bass drum and snare made the song, so I don’t know why y’all even mentioning that other dude, y’all acting like it was a kanye through the wire sample, it was like a 5 secnd loop a baby could do that
They were using that drum style in the south in the 90’s.
He’s lying.
shut up and suck his dick already you crusty cum bucket
This dude said he changed the game over a snare. LOL
He’s Talking about the snare Pattern which hes right i noticed that a long time ago and i hate it
you think he was the 1st eva to use that snare?
He’s not saying he’s the very first to use it,,hating dickhead,, and you know this.. He’s saying that utilizing it in the a milli beat laid a foundation for a lot of music production afterwards.
u don’t even believe that urself.
he trying to equate some n!ggas biting his snare as being a pioneer. all he had was a hot beat that n!ggas duplicated it they hardest for a quick buck.
that ain’t laying no foundation.
Bangladesh is lying, I looked up that guy Cha Lo and Bangladesh seemed to gave gotten the drum pattern from Cha Lo in 2006, even though its been around before both of them since its so simple.
fuck off….both of them bitch niggas
Bangladesh knows he’s a person, right? Why is he acting like a piece of shit?
lmao @Nate, so true
you might not agree w/ him but you cant see he aint right, A Milli changed everything
Bangladesh= Dopest producer
BDW, THE NEPTUNES USED THOSE SNARE BREAKS, BEFORE THIS CLOWN, CHECK SNOOP DOGG “DROP IT LIKE ITS HOT”, ALSO THEY SOUND WAY BETTER THAN “A MILLI” BEAT.
Think Lex Luger innovated rap last year.
Nah lil gayne aint no1 eida is this dude they dont make real sh*t no more they shud be irrelevant by now
* first and foremost, Bangladesh (Shondrae) is a talented producer…BUT, (my non-professional opinion) “A Milli” was far from his best work…
* Timbo is among the greatest non-classical producers of our time, and Organized Noize is the MOST SLEPT ON production unit in Hip-Hop history!
* didn’t Bangladesh have a fallout with ymcmb about not getting paid properly for A Milli?
* originally, the beat was for Busta and he passed…Busta did take the beat for his unreleased track “Bass” which is WAY better than A Milli
hahaha. wayne is from new orleans. go check out a mannie fresh or KLC beat from the 90’s and tell me how original you think your snares are.
This guy has talent as a producer, but what a stupid asshole
Changed the sound of music to reflect how wack hip hop can potentially be, he just made it ok for producers to make wack beats that can sell…
wow.. .so to make a good beat… (never thought this beat was good at all) you have to loop a fucking retard saying “A MILLIE A MILLIE A MILLIE” over and over. this niggas retarded.
“Drop it like its hot” by Pharrell did in fact predate bangladesh’s snare tap also Lex Luger is youthful and innovated the mainstream game with his speedy hi hat/tempo sound rappers are making CAREERS of that sound which is more recent actually bangladesh should watch who he calls irrelevant ppl actually know Swizz Beatz at least he was making beats with the likes of Jay Z b4 Alicia Keys even blew
how the fuck is this fagot ass clown???