Armand Hammer – “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die”

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When we talk about Armand Hammer, there’s the natural inclination to talk about how Elucid and billy woods are masters of their respective flows. “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die”, the second single from the NYC rap duo’s forthcoming album, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, doesn’t deny that fact. In fact, it only reinforces that argument, because really, how can these two keep twisting and contorting words bar after bar to effortless effect with that song title as your foundational thesis. This does go a few levels further, however, between their respective rhymes and its woozy, free-floating production from JPEGMAFIA creating an other-worldly kind of chemistry that only the right elements mixing together can concoct in a beat with nothing else around to catch up to it. Levitating from death, Armand Hammer are far out there.

Armand Hammer’s We Buy Diabetic Test Strips will be released September 29th on Fat Possum.