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Today, writes to us on the latest collab album between legendary rappers Billy Woods and Elucid under the Armand Hammer moniker, Paraffin. Artist: Album: Listen Background by It’s hard to say that any music scene is benefiting more from the internet age than underground hip-hop. Of course, the elimination of genre boundaries and the growing eclecticism of modern audiences is a benefit to music in general, it’s hard to argue that everybody is beginning to take more pride in their taste, trying to carve out a specific niche to inhabit. Funnily enough the once insular world of hip-hop is, arguably, experiencing the most integration when it comes to once foreign sounds and genres. No longer do we live in a world where you choose between boom bap, g-funk, jazz rap, trap, etc., no longer is sound restricted to the East Coast, West Coast and a handful of other specified locations. Perhaps it’s because of the the guerilla-ish, punk sensibility that hip-hop continues to adopt in the modern age, that allows growth and expansion in seemingly unnatural directions while delivering a very natural result. Euro bus simulator 2009 demo. Whether it be JPEGMAFIA or Clipping creating beats out of industrial scratches and ratchets, or Earl Sweatshirt and Mike holding up a mirror to the prototypical “mumble rapper” languidly reciting bars that hide wit and profound intelligence behind a detached murmur.

Hip-hop is experiencing the same divergence that other formerly niche genres had to endure and down those long forking passageways, in an alley obscured by shadows, that’s where you’ll find Armand Hammer. Billy Woods and Elucid have both spent the better part of the aughts taking advantage of this newfound freedom in genre. Both are prolific rappers with iconoclastic sounds, both have mysterious and introverted demeanors; Billy Woods doesn’t even show his face online, but the biggest rift between the two is in terms of experience. Woods, the elder statesmen of the two, was born in Washington DC to a Jamaican mother and Zimbabwean father - between the years of 1981 and 1995 he lived in Rhodesia. After moving back to the States and attending Howard University, Woods was introduced to the legendary Vordul Mega (of Cannibal Ox). Vordul offered him a chance to record a guest verse at the legendary Electric Ladyland Studios, but Woods faced a hostile entourage and sound engineer.