Emiway Bantai

Bilal Shaikh (born: ), better known online as Emiway Bantai (or just Bantai), is an Indian hip-hop rap-artist. His pen-name has derived from two rappers: Lil Wayne and Eminem. He took the "Emi" from Eminem and "Way" from Lil Wayne and thus formed Emiway while the word Bantai has been created by him. Bantai is the ninth Indian non-corporate YouTube channel to surpass 10 million subscribers, after CarryMinati.
==Life & Career==
===Life===
Bilal was born on 13 November, 1995 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He completed his schooling from the LHS in Mumbai. Shaikh was good at his studies until he failed once, at twelfth standard. After that, it took him a lot of hard-work to reach the position of a prominent rapper under the stage name of "Emiway Bantai". Bantai made his first debut in India with his song "Glint Lock".
===Career & Debut===
In his intitial days as a rapper, he struggled hard and worked as a helper in the "Hard Rock Cafe" to help him financiallyWikibio in Career. He has never taken any support from his family in making rap music. He started rapping in English, but after his father's advise, he changed his base-language to Hindi so that more Indians could relate to his raps. In 2014, Bantai did his first Hindi rap "Aur Bantai" which was an instant hit.
==The Battle With Raftaar==
In 2017, he made a song "#Sadak" in collaboration with professional rapper "Raftaar". Yet an year later, he got into a hot battle with Raftaar for their emergence. It all started when Raftaar stated that Emiway can never earn money like that, due to which Bantai made the song "Samajh Mein Aaya Kya?". Raftaar replied back with his song "Sheikh Chilli", whose tune was copied by Ashish Chanchlani to produce the song "The Student Anthem". The battle did not end yet; Bantai replied yet again with another song "Giraftaar".
==Awards & Accolades==
*2016: Radio City Freedom Award.
*2017: Best Hip-Hop Artist For "People's Choice".
*2019: Feature In The Song "Asli Hip-Hop" from Zoya Akhtar's superhit film "Gully Boy".
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