A big look for Company Flow and MF Doom heads; cult NYC rap duo Armand Hammer aka billy woods and ELUCID come slow, dark and heavy on productions by JPEGMAFIA, EL-P, Kenny Segal, Black Noi$e, Preservation, DJ Haram, Child Actor, Sebb Bash, August Fanon, and more
After a couple of years focussed on solo albums after 2021’s ‘Haram’ album with The Alchemist, billy woods and ELUCID reprise Armand Hammer with a clear hunger on ‘We Buy Diabetic Test Strips’. As their first for Fat Possum, it sees them diverse bonds while sticking hard to the classically heavy NYC neck-snap beats, pushing in the cracks between ruggedly upfront and more avant, dare-to-differ styles with a swagger and verve that has become their calling card.
Purposefully swerving the signifiers of drill, trap or cloud rap that mark out much new hip hop from NYC, Armand Hammer’s sound could feasibly be placed at any point on the timeline between the late ‘90s and now, preferring legible wordplay and textured, sampledelic production sure to ring bells with older heads and possibly snag younger ones who aren’t following the crowd. Most acutely their sound reminds us to EL-P’s golden phase of late ‘90s into early ‘00s with Company Flow and Cannibal Ox, or Def Jux for that matter, and uncannily coincides with the return of rappers donning backpacks on stage.
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A big look for Company Flow and MF Doom heads; cult NYC rap duo Armand Hammer aka billy woods and ELUCID come slow, dark and heavy on productions by JPEGMAFIA, EL-P, Kenny Segal, Black Noi$e, Preservation, DJ Haram, Child Actor, Sebb Bash, August Fanon, and more
After a couple of years focussed on solo albums after 2021’s ‘Haram’ album with The Alchemist, billy woods and ELUCID reprise Armand Hammer with a clear hunger on ‘We Buy Diabetic Test Strips’. As their first for Fat Possum, it sees them diverse bonds while sticking hard to the classically heavy NYC neck-snap beats, pushing in the cracks between ruggedly upfront and more avant, dare-to-differ styles with a swagger and verve that has become their calling card.
Purposefully swerving the signifiers of drill, trap or cloud rap that mark out much new hip hop from NYC, Armand Hammer’s sound could feasibly be placed at any point on the timeline between the late ‘90s and now, preferring legible wordplay and textured, sampledelic production sure to ring bells with older heads and possibly snag younger ones who aren’t following the crowd. Most acutely their sound reminds us to EL-P’s golden phase of late ‘90s into early ‘00s with Company Flow and Cannibal Ox, or Def Jux for that matter, and uncannily coincides with the return of rappers donning backpacks on stage.
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A big look for Company Flow and MF Doom heads; cult NYC rap duo Armand Hammer aka billy woods and ELUCID come slow, dark and heavy on productions by JPEGMAFIA, EL-P, Kenny Segal, Black Noi$e, Preservation, DJ Haram, Child Actor, Sebb Bash, August Fanon, and more
After a couple of years focussed on solo albums after 2021’s ‘Haram’ album with The Alchemist, billy woods and ELUCID reprise Armand Hammer with a clear hunger on ‘We Buy Diabetic Test Strips’. As their first for Fat Possum, it sees them diverse bonds while sticking hard to the classically heavy NYC neck-snap beats, pushing in the cracks between ruggedly upfront and more avant, dare-to-differ styles with a swagger and verve that has become their calling card.
Purposefully swerving the signifiers of drill, trap or cloud rap that mark out much new hip hop from NYC, Armand Hammer’s sound could feasibly be placed at any point on the timeline between the late ‘90s and now, preferring legible wordplay and textured, sampledelic production sure to ring bells with older heads and possibly snag younger ones who aren’t following the crowd. Most acutely their sound reminds us to EL-P’s golden phase of late ‘90s into early ‘00s with Company Flow and Cannibal Ox, or Def Jux for that matter, and uncannily coincides with the return of rappers donning backpacks on stage.