Armand Hammer, the groundbreaking NYC rap duo of ELUCID and billy woods, has confirmed their eighth studio album, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, out September 29 via their new label Fat Possum Records. The duo’s new project arrives two and a half years after Haram, their labyrinthine collaboration with The Alchemist, and features production credits from JPEGMAFIA, El-P, Kenny Segal, DJ Haram, Black Noi$e, Preservation, August Fanon, Steel Tipped Dove, Child Actor, and Sebb Bash.
To introduce the project, the duo has shared the lead single “Trauma Mic” featuring Pink Siifu. The visual, which stars DJ Haram, billy woods, and ELUCID, is co-directed by actor Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, O Brother Where Art Thou?) and his son Henry Nelson. Produced by DJ Haram, the duo’s new track “snowballs,” as Armand Hammer described. Adding, “except instead of snow it’s a neodymium magnet cascading down a mountain of discarded pig iron.”
Alongside the news of their new album, Armand Hammer has shared autumn and winter tour dates that will begin a few days after releasing the new album. The 28-date tour will begin on October 1 and run until the end of February, taking the album through North America and Europe. The duo is also announcing a free daytime show this Saturday, August 5, at Brooklyn’s Public Records, where fans will be able to hear select songs from the new album for the first time.
Check out the video for “Trauma Mic” below, and pre-order We Buy Diabetic Test Strips here.
