Three instrumental volumes into their partnership, Drasar Monumental and Ayatollah put their own voices over their own beats. Originally released in 2017, BOX CUTTER BROTHERS 4 divided that work between two record sides: Drasar handled the rapping and production on side A, while Ayatollah did the same on side B. Drasar’s Bandcamp presentation revisits his half of that change in direction. MF Grimm introduced the two producers. Drasar had produced Grimm’s Good Morning Vietnam, released in 2012, before the first Box Cutter Brothers set appeared in 2015 through the independent network around Vendetta Vinyl Vietnam and Day by Day Entertainment. Ayatollah brought a different production history, including Mos Def’s “Ms. Fat Booty.” In his 2015 Unkut interview, he traced that record to repeated trips from Queens to the Rawkus office with homemade beat tapes, eventually earning a hearing from the label. The same interview caught the next Box Cutter installment at its starting point: when Ayatollah asked Drasar when they should begin volume four, Drasar told him to start sending music that night. The resulting record gave each producer responsibility for both the words and the music on his own side.
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