"We told her, 'Please don't release your version.' And she said, 'Well, I'm going to put it online anyway.'"
Last week, "Harlem Shake" producer Baauer found himself in the line of Azealia Banks' bridge-burning fire. She released a remix of the song that generated a thousand memes; Baauer had it removed. Cue Azealia Banks calling him a "faggoot" on Twitter. "I can post emails showing where u gave me permission to use Harlem shake," she fought back. She then Tweeted, "@Diplo just sent me an email saying the reason they won't let my Harlem shake remix fly is because they'd rather have juicy j on it" and "I feel like Harlem shake was a ho with some free ***** and everyone was allowed to **** but me. :("
Now, Baauer has responded to Banks. In interview with the Daily Beast, Baauer explained that he had planned to release a version of the song with Banks quite a while ago. But when her verse wasn't up to snuff, he pulled the plug on the collaboration and went ahead with the instrumental version of the song.
"She laid something on 'Harlem Shake' and it was so/so. Didn't love it," he said. "And that was a little while ago, and since all this video stuff happened, our plans all changed. Because of that, we decided to just release the song on its own with no vocal version. So we told her, 'Please don't release your version.' And she said, 'Well, I'm going to put it online anyway.' And we said, 'Please don't. We'd really like it if you didn't.' And she did."
In other Baauer news, he tells the Daily Beast he's working with Aluna Francis from AlunaGeorge and Just Blaze on his upcoming EP that will be released through LuckyMe. He's also potentially working with A$AP Rocky.
http://pitchfork.com/news/49604-baau...rge-on-new-ep/ 
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