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Armand Hammer Thinks “The Gods Must Be Crazy” On El-P Produced Track
New York rap duo Armand Hammer, consisting of billy woods and E L U C I D, is back with another lead single to their exciting upcoming project. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips will be out on this coming Friday, September 29. We have already got two other tracks from their seventh LP over the past month. One of the first tracks, “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die,” was very dystopian, thanks to JPEGMAFIA’s unique production style.
The one before that was titled “Trauma Mic.” That featured production from DJ Haram. It also had a guest appearance from Pink Siifu, a rapper and singer from Birmingham, Alabama. Genius is projecting that the album will contain 12 other new tracks.
Listen To “The Gods Must Be Crazy” From Armand Hammer And El-P
The experimental, dynamic, and lyrical group is back for one more release on this album’s rollout. According to Pitchfork, this latest cut grabs El-P of the legendary duo Run The Jewels. He does not rap on it, unfortunately, be he does bring a tremendous instrumental. The spitting from billy and E L U C I D is top-notch as always. This newest effort looks to be another great release for rap in 2023.
What are your initial thoughts on Armand Hammer and El-P’s newest single, “The Gods Must be Crazy?” Do you think this is the best lead single from the album so far? Who had the best performance on the track? We want to hear what you have to say about all of this. With that in mind, be sure to leave all of your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest breaking news around Armand Hammer and all of the hottest song releases.
Quotable Lyrics:
Overlapping Venn diagrams, overlapping
The hammer fell out your man’s waistband grappling
Anything can happen if you tryna make it happen
Get head (head) tapped (tapped) tryna get it cracking
Mind cracked open, seeing all the patterns
Was a time woulda been oracles and seers
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Armand Hammer Teams Up With JPEGMAFIA For “Woke Up And Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die”
Armand Hammer is a rap duo that consists of high-level lyricists billy woods and E L U C I D. Billy heralds from Washington D.C. while E L U C I D is from Jamaica, Queens, New York. Both are no strangers to each other, as the two of them joined forces in 2013. Together they formed their own rap duo called Armand Hammer. They are well-known in the underground scene floating on top of some pretty experimental production. So naturally, they brought on JPEGMAFIA for the production of their new single called, “Armand Hammer Teams Up With JPEGMAFIA For “Woke Up And Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die.”
It is an interesting title for sure, but that like we said is nothing out of the ordinary for any three of these artists. This single will be a part of their next LP, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips. The album is expected to be released on September 29, 2023, on all streaming platforms. Genius has the tracklist at 15 songs, so when it drops we will be here to cover it.
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Armand Hammer Eat Up The Beat
Both billy woods and E L U C I D ride the production very nicely. The atmosphere from the beginning is a little eerie. However, it mellows out allowing for the lyrics to shine from Armand Hammer. “Life’s a trip, if you live long enough you gon’ see it all / Life’s a blip, I flew in under the radar / Beat up spaceships, sliding under the light of a dead star / Still made my shift, appropriately lit for the graveyard.” JPEG continues to add his toolbelt with another great effort on the beat.
What are your initial thoughts on this brand new single from E L U C I D, billy woods, JPEGMAFIA, “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die?” Who has the best verse on the song, billy or E L U C I D? Is JPEGMAFIA one of the best producers in modern hip-hop? We want to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave all of your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the hottest song releases and all of the latest breaking news around the music world.
Quotable Lyrics:
Marbled steak, put it back in the case so it can age more
Patient carnivore, ate ’til my jaw ached
Wait for her to say I can have it raw
Wild dogs, fresh wounds and old scars
Wild cards pulled out the deck as if the game weren’t already hard
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Earl Sweatshirt Announces ‘Sick’ And Drops The No-Nonsense ‘Tabula Rasa’ Featuring Armand Hammer
The rumors around Earl Sweatshirt’s follow up album to 2018’s Some Rap Songs and the 2019 effort Feet Of Clay have been swirling all year long. First, Alchemist said he and Earl had hidden an album on YouTube under a fake name. Next, Vince Staples made the biblical assertion that he, Earl, and Alchemist had laid down “30 verses on 30 beats” for a project with Earl and Alchemist. Then in September, Alchemist went on The Needle Drop and said that Earl’s album was “done and it’s incredible,” and is 21 minutes long. The Black Noise-produced “2010” dropped last month, and now, we finally have confirmation of the next Earl release.
The just-announced Sick is a 10-track project that’s set to drop on January 14th, 2022. The announcement also came with the release of the newest single, “Tabula Rasa,” featuring Armand Hammer. The video is a one-shot take that brings us through a home studio with first Armand Hammer’s Elucid dropping his verse, before Billy Woods lays his down and Earl brings it home with an ill stream of consciousness flow.
Earl released a statement on Sick and it speaks directly to what he address on “Tabula Rasa”:
“SICK is my humble offering of 10 songs recorded in the wake of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns. Before the virus I had been working on an album I named after a book I used to read with my mother (‘The People Could Fly’). Once the lockdowns hit, people couldn’t fly anymore. A wise man said art imitates life. People were sick. The People were angry and isolated and restless. I leaned into the chaos cause it was apparent that it wasn’t going anywhere. these songs are what happened when I would come up for air. Peace and love to Zelooperz the enigma, The Armand Hammer, and my good friends Alchemist and Black Noi$e. Peace and love to u.”
If the tracks on Sick are laid out like four-plus minute “Tabula Rasa,” then there’s no chance that this is the 21-minute album that Alchemist referred to. That couple with reading between the lines of Earl’s statement, makes it possible that Sick is just a step towards a separate full-blown album. Time will tell. For now, peep the video for “Tabula Rasa” above.
Check out the album art below.
Sick is out 01/14/2022 via Tan Cressida/Warner Records. Pre-order it here.
Earl Sweatshirt is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Armand Hammer Aren’t Just Ahead Of Their Time — They’re Making Bold Music For Now
Hip-hop duo Armand Hammer have been making bold and thought-provoking music for just shy of a decade — but don’t call them ahead of their time. Rather, rappers Billy Woods and Elucid are making music for now. After putting out several records, including the 2021 LP Haram with Eminem’s current DJ, The Alchemist, Armand Hammer are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Charting their success in a recent Magnum Scenes video presented by Uproxx, Armand Hammer explain why they live up to their label as the “best lyricists on the planet.”
Born and raised in Queens, New York, Elucid never second-guesses himself when it comes to his music. That’s why when he first discovered Billy Woods, he knew they were destined to be musical partners. Known for his quick-witted lyrics, Woods’ love of the written word was inherited from his Shakespearean scholar mother. “For me, the trust was almost immediate because I’ve seen what he could do by himself,” Elucid said of the duo’s creative connection.
Armand Hammer didn’t pop off overnight. Instead, they made a name for themselves organically by booking their own shows with their favorite creatives. At the time, Elucid says a certain type of rap was “pushed to the side” in favor of commercially successful music. But Armand Hammer have always stayed true to their sound. “I still have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder about that because I never stopped doing the thing they said stop doing,” Elucid said.
Elsewhere in the video, Armand Hammer talk about their indie record label Backwoodz Studioz, so check out the above and explore the other musicians covered in the Magnum Scenes series here.
Additional footage by Alexander Richter
The Alchemist Produced Armand Hammer’s Entire Upcoming Album, ‘Haram’
The Alchemist is in the midst of something of a renaissance, producing a string of highly-regarded projects for the likes of Griselda Records’ Conway The Machine and Gary, Indiana drug rap avatar Freddie Gibbs, as well as songs for Action Bronson and Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats. Hitting the ground running to open the new year, the LA-based producer has announced his next full-length collaboration. This time around, he’s contributing his unique brand of soulful menace to the lyrics of Armand Hammer, the duo consisting of New York rappers Elucid and Billy Woods.
The new album is called Haram, and it’s due on March 26 via Backwoodz Studioz. Fronted by a striking cover — a pair of freshly butchered pigs’ heads — the album features guest appearances from Curly Castro, Earl Sweatshirt, Kayana, Quelle Chris, and more. It arrives just about nine months from the release of their last project, 2020’s Shrines, which likewise featured many of the above collaborators as well as Nosaj, Pink Siifu, and R.A.P. Ferreira. However, Haram will be Armand Hammer’s first project entirely produced by just one producer.
You can pre-order Haram here. Check out the tracklist below.
1. “Sir Benni Miles”
2. “Roaches Don’t Fly”
3. “Black Sunlight” feat. KAYANA
4. “Indian Summer”
5. “Aubergine” feat. Fielded
6. “God’s Feet”
7. “Peppertree”
8. “Scaffolds”
9. “Falling Out The Sky” feat. Earl Sweatshirt
10. “Wishing Bad” feat. Curly Castro & Amani
11. “Chicharrones” feat. Quelle Chris
12. “Squeegee”
13. “Robert Moses”
14. “Stonefruit”