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Armand Hammer — the group comprising rappers ELUCID and billy woods — and producer The Alchemist share "Super Nintendo," a reflection on bittersweet nostalgia set to a ribbony synthesizer figure and a barely-there percussive pulse. "Super Nintendo" is the first single from Mercy, their new album out November 7 via Backwoodz Studioz with global physical distribution by Rhymesayers Entertainment.
Armand Hammer and The Alchemist build worlds. Their first was Haram and it remains locked in orbit, equal parts lush and foreboding. Their new one is called Mercy and it’s made out of blood and empire, children’s laughter, unpaid parking tickets, and unkept secrets. Rappers ELUCID and billy woods are joined on the mic by Earl Sweatshirt, Quelle Chris, Cleo Reed, Pink Siifu, Kapwani, and Silka. The Alchemist did everything else.
For nearly a decade as a duo, and longer still as solo artists, Armand Hammer have left a palpable mark on modern rap and hip-hop. At turns both sharp-witted and soul-crushing, their lyrics unspool threads of socio-political, historical, and philosophical import with a potent blend of incisive critique, gallows humor, and narrative élan.
Mercy is the first Armand Hammer album since 2023's We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, a project that The Observer (UK) described as "an exceptional record that deserves your time and headphones" and The Line Of Best Fit deemed "their headiest and most impressive work thus far." On 2021's Haram, their first with The Alchemist, the duo "drag postcolonial wounds onto the examination table" (Pitchfork). Beats Per Minute called it "a tremendous success."
Earlier this year, billy woods released GOLLIWOG, "“a densely poetic, totally masterful tour de force" (Rolling Stone) and "one of 2025's truly essential albums" (The FADER). Meanwhile, ELUCID's "enthralling" (MOJO) 2024 album REVELATOR was described by Pitchfork as "soul food for those who know a better world is possible if we're willing to fight for it." The New York Times, in naming REVELATOR one of their Best Albums Of 2024, called it "a dense, overdriven, fiercely abrasive album that cranks up the tradition of Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad productions for 21st-century impact."
GABE 'NANDEZ • instagram.com/champiyawn
Raised between Jerusalem, Haiti, Tanzania, Canada and New York, Gabe ‘Nandez doesn’t call any specific place home.
His life—widening in pulses—has led him back to New York City, where he reinterprets hip-hop alongside the music and spiritualism of his nomadic upbringing—as well as his South American and African heritage. Having conquered the darknesses of listlessness and addiction, Gabe’s lyricism is a ladder for those who struggle to overcome their own entrenchment. “
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