Looks like it’s joint single time as Finland’s Cut Beetlez production team team-up with Philly emcee duo Dirty Winters and Lynx 196.9 for Cut Ya Ass Up. And if that sounds nasty – it’s because it is. “What you fucking looking at? I’ll throw dry wall at your eyeballs because I’m a nice guy,” goes the intro over epic horns and double time hi-hats which belie the lumbering 87 bpm Tiger tank tempo. Seconds later the drums and the bars come in and seconds after that, it’s time for the full bottom end – very much a, “watch your bass bins, I’m tellin ya'” moment. So subby is it in fact, that it’s only used three times during the track and then only for four-bar stretches. You can’t handle the bass! Obviously, you’ll want to try though so you reach the crazy scratch n cut antics of the last half minute where Cut Beetlez cut things up (Jeru Tha Damaja’s bars on Gang Starr’s I’m The Man, for example), ‘like Edward Scissorhands.’ A veritable slab of underground hip-hop, then.
(Out 6 March on Fabyl)