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Lamont Dorrell, better known as Ayatollah is a Hip Hop producer from Queens, New York. He has made beats for R.A. The Rugged Man, Tragedy Khadafi, Wordsworth, Vast Aire, Afu-Ra and many others. R.A. The Rugged Man had said in an interview that he was the first person to ever buy a beat from Ayatollah.
He has also worked with up and coming rapper/producer from Inglewood, California named Three-1-Zero, whom he's made classic records with. In January 2006 he released his second instrumental album entitled "Now Playing", a follow up of his first album personal legends. He received recognition after producing the soulful hip-hop hit Ms Fat Booty for rapper Mos Def. Since then many hip-hop artists are demanding his chipmunk soul style of beatmaking.
Selected production credits:
Afu-Ra "Think Before You..." (Life Force Radio, 2002)
Cormega "Rap's a Hustle" (The Realness, 2001)
Cormega "Bring it Back" (Legal Hustle, 2004)
eMC "Four Brothers" (2006)
Ghostface Killah "WTC Pt. 2"
Guru "Cry" (Baldhead Slick & Da Click, 2001)
Inspectah Deck "The Movement", "Who Got It", "Shorty Right There", "Vendetta", "That Nigga" (The Movement, 2003)
The Last Emperor "Karma", "Tiger Trail" (Music, Magic, Myth, 2003)
Masta Ace "Hold U" (Disposable Arts, 2001)
Mos Def "Ms. Fat Booty", "Know That" (Black on Both Sides, 1999)
Mos Def "Ms. Fat Booty 2" (Lyricist Lounge 2, 2000)
R.A. The Rugged Man "You Don't Wanna Fuck Wit" (2002)
R.A. The Rugged Man "Chains", "Make Luv Outro" (Die Rugged Man Die, 2004)
Royce Da 5'9" "Life" (Rock City (Version 2.0), 2002)
Saigon "Do You Know"
Sean Price "Spliff N Wessun" (Monkey Barz, 2005)
Styles P & Pharoahe Monch "The Life" (Soundbombing 3, 2002)
Talib Kweli "Joy", "The Proud" (Quality, 2002)
The Dwellas "Game of Death" (The Last Shall Be First, 2000)
Tragedy Khadafi "Lift Ya Glass" (Against All Odds, 2001)
Tragedy Khadafi "No Equivalent" (Thug Matrix, 2005)
Vast Aire "Elixir" (Look Mom...No Hands, 2004)
Wordsworth "Right Now", "Evol" (Mirror Music, 2004)
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayatollah_(producer)
Will hiermit auch gleich auf seinen neuen Release "Listen" aufmerksam machen. Hab das teil mal blind mitbestellt, kennt oder hat das jemand?
Bin schon sehr gespannt darauf, ist wieder eine Instrumental-Platte bestückt mit 11 Ayatollah-Beats!
Erste gleichnamige Single klingt wie ich finde schonmal mehr als vielversprechend!! (siehe Video)
Den Vorgänger "Now Playing", anfang dieses Jahres erschienen, fand ich auch schon sehr cool.
"Blood Red Roses" gefiel mir besonders gut:
Video zu 'Listen'
Interview
Einer meiner Lieblingsproducer, Beats von "Ms.Fat Booty" und z.b. "the Life" sind einfach hammer
Hab mit den Pete Rocks und der Mf Doom Reihe angefangen... so reine Headnod Beats können zwar auf Dauer langweilen, aber z.b. atmosphärische Sachen wie Blockhead und RJD2 schaffen es schon einen richtig zu fesseln finde ich 
