The Alchemist continues his unstoppable run by teaming up with New York-based duo Armand Hammer.
The Alchemist explained how their collaboration had started in the interview with GQ:
It was pretty much Thebe [Kgositsile, better known as Earl Sweatshirt]. He’s always putting me onto new stuff. I actually felt stupid, like I was under a rock for not knowing about them. I’d heard a verse from woods on an Evidence[-produced] joint with Mach-Hommy one time. So that’s what started my interest. Then I started digging into each of their catalogs individually, and as Armand Hammer. Their videos… anyone I put onto them, they have the same experience [I did]: they hit me up later like, ‘Damn.’ To me, at this point in my career, it’s fun to have that feeling of finding something I didn’t know about, and being able to put other people onto it, like, ‘Check this shit out, this is the highest level of art.’ It started with me and woods talking; I reached out to him first, and was just like, Yo, I’m a fan,’ and we started building little by little.
As a tribute to this link, Earl Sweatshirt made a guest appearance on “Falling Out the Sky”.
Watch the video for album opener “Sir Benni Miles” below:
Listen to Armand Hammer & The Alchemist — “Haram”
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