‘Donda’ Record Producer Apologizes To BTS For Angry Tweets After Failing To Win Grammy

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Mike Dean co-produced Kanye West's "Donda" which failed to win Album of the Year
He implied that BTS fans are kids
"I was mad about album of the year": Mike Dean

American record producer Mike Dean apologized for lashing out at BTS and their fans after failing to receive the Grammy for Album of the Year.

Dean, whose career spans over 40 years, has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry like Beyonce, Drake, and Madonna. He has won seven Grammys including this year’s Best Rap Song for co-writing Kanye West’s “Jail” featuring Jay-Z. However, he failed to get this year's trophy for Album of the Year for West’s “Donda” which he co-produced. The trophy eventually went to Jon Batiste for "We Are.”

Sulking over his loss, the prolific hip hop producer resorted to questioning BTS’ songwriting abilities and even taunted the world-famous musicians’ fans implying that they are kids.

Dean deleted his controversial tweets but Koreaboo has compiled screenshots of his tweets which received heavy backlash on Twitter from BTS fans (ARMY).

In one tweet, he said, “Yes, I got jokes. Like to push army’s buttons. It’s fun. I might produce bts one day. They have asked for music before.” Replying to a fan who said that he “should’ve kept BTS’ name” out of his mouth, Dean replied, “U will all grow up and discover music one day.”

In a subsequent tweet, the Texas native songwriter said, “Its funny to read so many armys saying BTS members write '90% of their music' based on a statement made by a Big Hit employee. Hahahaha, there is no way BTS members have written 90% of their music. Just check the writing credits of every single BTS album.” He continued in another tweet, “In all of them are like 9-10 credited songwriters per song. Why would a company like Big Hit spend so much money in so many songwriters who only do 90% of the job?”

Dean’s tweets resulted in a flood of comments from loyal supporters of the boy band whose recent “Permission To Dance” concert in Seoul – earned $6.84 million when it was broadcasted live in 803 North American theaters on March 12.

“Ok. Sorry to BTS,” Dean said which he followed up with another tweet, “Ok folks. I was mad about album of the year and made a post I shouldn’t have made. My gf just made me feel bad for it.”