If you follow Honey Singh, you may have read many talks about Badshah, Raftar, Mafia Mundeer and controversies surrounding them. You may have read a lot of people saying "this is the reality of Honey Singh" or "the truth of Yo Yo Honey Singh" or "Honey Singh is a cheat" and so on. And even though this topic is quite a hot topic in Desi Hip Hop fandom, I don't see any proper article explaining the situation. Information is available but in bits and pieces. For someone who just starting following Honey Singh, it may be difficult to quickly grab the situation. So if you are one of these people, then this article is perfect for explaining the situation to you. Please note that a lot of information in this article is just based on interviews and is not properly verifiable and there might be some opinions involved in this article.
How immature is that!!
Another point in YoYo's favour raised by his fans is that if Badshah is so possessive about his songs than where was he when YoYo was being accused for his vulgar lyrics which he claims are written by him and where is he when everyone abuses him for Vol I which he was also a part of? Why doesn't he share the credits for them too? And where is Raftaar when people blame Honey Singh for polluting the society and writing lines like "Chako chako kuch fresh nahi milna" which was part of Dope Shope whose lyrics he claims to have written? If they want to share the popularity then they should be ready to share the blame too. They say that the truth is they are just jealous of Honey Singh and how he has got popular in so small time.
And about Mafia Mundeer, in an interview with Manj, who has formed Three Records', whose Raftaar is also a member, said that the Mafia Mundeer we see now isn't the real Mafia Mundeer. The original members of Mafia Mundeer were Honey Singh, Badshah, Raftaar, Ikka and Lil' Golu, who recently featured in YoYo's song 'Issey Kehte Hain Hip Hop'. But after all the above mentioned events happened the original members parted ways and then Honey Singh formed the new Mafia Mundeer which post IV included Honey Singh, Alfaaz, Money Aujla, J-Star and Badshah. Later on, J-Star and Badshah also left and now Mafia Mundeer is left with only three members who are still close friends.
As of now, the popularity of Badshah and Raftaar is nothing compared to Honey Singh. Most of the Honey's fan-base dosn't even know about them. But recently there popularity has gone up with there entry into Bollywood and release of songs like Saturday Saturday and Dhup Chik. Also some of there independent songs like Bandook, Chull and Swag Mera Desi have also become popular. Badshah is even going to have a song with Sonam Kapoor in an upcoming movie. We wish both of them luck and popularity and hope that they will stop pulling off cheap tricks and publicity stunts.
Honey Singh, Badshah and Raftaar were good friends for a long time. Honey Singh and Badshah have done several collaborations, including the infamous Vol I and songs like Khol Botal, Begani Naar and Delhi ke Deewane. The same goes for Raftaar, with whom Honey had collaborated in the song Raftaar. But these were all before International Villager, the only exceptions being the song Get Up Jawaani, a Honey-Badshah song, which was in IV itself and 2012 song Gadbad which had both Honey and Raftaar. But we haven't seen them working together on any project since 2012. Instead, we see them fighting all over the place. So what happened?
Well what happened apparently is that Honey Singh didn't give proper credits to them in IV. They have claimed on several occasions that Brown Rang and Dope Shope were written by Badshah and Raftaar respectively but Honey copied these songs in his album without giving them proper credits. Another popular view by Honey Singh's fans is that they might have had some contribution in these songs but didn't mind not getting credits before the release of the album. But when the album got released and became super hit they got jealous and asked him to give them credits. But he refused because the album had already been released and changing the credits now might create controversy. So they had a fight over this issue and parted ways. The fight got so bad that they haven't even talked since then(Badshah said in an interview that he hasn't talked with Honey Singh since 2012).
Another issue is that YoYo has been using lines from there very old songs which were collaborations between these three in his concerts without giving them credits. Well in a way he does have rights to use these songs as he was a part of the songs too but since he so famous as compared to them, it might hit some chords.
Since then we see Badshah and Raftaar abusing Honey Singh on their Facebook pages. Raftaar has taken it to another level by mocking and giving direct challenges to him in his songs. In one of his songs 'Swag Mera Desi Hai', Raftaar mocked and gave direct challenge to him by using his line from the song 'Party with the Bhootnath'- "Ab ye Kar ke Dikhao"(Do this if you can). While Honey Singh has always been silent about the issue.
See this Facebook post by Badshah:
How immature is that!!
Another point in YoYo's favour raised by his fans is that if Badshah is so possessive about his songs than where was he when YoYo was being accused for his vulgar lyrics which he claims are written by him and where is he when everyone abuses him for Vol I which he was also a part of? Why doesn't he share the credits for them too? And where is Raftaar when people blame Honey Singh for polluting the society and writing lines like "Chako chako kuch fresh nahi milna" which was part of Dope Shope whose lyrics he claims to have written? If they want to share the popularity then they should be ready to share the blame too. They say that the truth is they are just jealous of Honey Singh and how he has got popular in so small time.
And about Mafia Mundeer, in an interview with Manj, who has formed Three Records', whose Raftaar is also a member, said that the Mafia Mundeer we see now isn't the real Mafia Mundeer. The original members of Mafia Mundeer were Honey Singh, Badshah, Raftaar, Ikka and Lil' Golu, who recently featured in YoYo's song 'Issey Kehte Hain Hip Hop'. But after all the above mentioned events happened the original members parted ways and then Honey Singh formed the new Mafia Mundeer which post IV included Honey Singh, Alfaaz, Money Aujla, J-Star and Badshah. Later on, J-Star and Badshah also left and now Mafia Mundeer is left with only three members who are still close friends.
As of now, the popularity of Badshah and Raftaar is nothing compared to Honey Singh. Most of the Honey's fan-base dosn't even know about them. But recently there popularity has gone up with there entry into Bollywood and release of songs like Saturday Saturday and Dhup Chik. Also some of there independent songs like Bandook, Chull and Swag Mera Desi have also become popular. Badshah is even going to have a song with Sonam Kapoor in an upcoming movie. We wish both of them luck and popularity and hope that they will stop pulling off cheap tricks and publicity stunts.
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