With production from heavy hitters like The Neptunes, RZA and Alchemist forming the backdrop to Clash’s number-one album of 2013, Earl Sweatshirt’s ‘Doris’, it’s easy to overlook the guys who really pulled together the record’s sound.
With the most production credits on the album aside from Earl himself, under the alias randomblackdude, production duo Christian Rich were responsible for the album’s lead single ‘Chum’, co-production with the RZA on ‘Molasses’ and fan-favourites ‘Centurion’ and ‘Knight’. Having described their roles as “pretty much executive producing the album”, we decided to catch up via email with the Nigeria-raised, Chicago-born, LA-based twin brothers Taiwo and Kehinde Hassan to talk about their production achievements over the past 12 months, and their work with our recent cover star…