Yousef Srour returns to deliver the latest edition of The Rap-Up, featuring a new care-free Robb Bank$ track, ZAYALLCAP's latest re-imagining of autotune, new Armand Hammer and more.

Chris Robinson explores hip-hop's history of sampling the bass clarinet and finds a grab bag of eleven tracks featuring the big licorice’s luscious low-end frequencies.

Joel Biswas details billy woods and Elucid's new collaboration with The Alchemist, an album that puts the trio at at the center of the subterranean zeitgeist.

Will Schube dig deep with Elucid and Billy Woods about what makes their collaborative efforts so fruitful and the possibility of falling off one day.

Willie Green reconfigures the standout from last month's Rome.

The Passion of the Weiss staff break down the top albums of 2014 and learn the dangers of teenage steroid abuse.

Paul Thompson leaks Mott Street noodles out his mouth when he talks “We never really stopped,” says Elucid. “We already had the groove.” Armand Hammer is New York’s new perpetual motion machine. After a 2013 that saw both a mixtape (Half Measures) and a critically acclaimed album (RACE MUSIC)—not to mention a solo record from […]

Paul Thompson is hotheaded with cold shoulders Elucid and Billy Woods just want to pay their rent. Collectively known as Armand Hammer, the duo is responsible for the best album you missed in 2013: the stellar, heady RACE MUSIC. Whatever you were listening to on the way to work this morning, this record knocks harder […]

Jonah Bromwich knows but one wealthy industrialist. “Ephemera” initially seemed like the right word to describe Race Music. These are loose associations communing over semi-hardcore beats. Philly and D.C. kids, Elucid, Billy Woods, rapping as Armand Hammer, ripping wisdom-filled one liners all over the place. I don’t have it all together just yet. T-shirts and […]