Armand Hammer
Based in rap's ancestral homeland of New York City and made up of verbose rappers billy woods and ELUCID, Armand Hammer is one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary rap acts, notorious for their run of labyrinthine albums on woods' own Backwoodz Studioz imprint and their fiery collaborations with veteran super-producer The Alchemist. The old friends last broke bread together on 2025's 'Mercy', building on the acclaim of its predecessor 'Haram' with a suite of paranoid, noir-esque productions and dextrous rhymes that reference Laraaji, Cocorosie and Werner Herzog and feature guest appearances from Earl Sweatshirt and Pink Siifu.