Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
Fat Possum
Armand Hammer's cryptic output has captured the minds of Hip-Hop fans in recent years. Puzzles have always been a past-time which begged for effort in order for the bigger picture to fall in to place. Cracking the code and lining up pieces proves a worthwhile task - it's not for everybody, but to those that it's for, nothing but love is offered up. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips sees Armand Hammer continue their incredible discography.
No other pair of MC's is on the run that Armand Hammer is on - both on their respected individual paths also. Can it be called a run if there's no end in sight? It feels like the default - all hits, no misses. Like two scientists laying out their latest theories, Bills Woods and Elucid carve words through the warped world in which they find themselves. Making sense of that which they know - in a way we all know; the levels to the game make it an unevenly even playing field. A strange knowing finds itself manifested, but we still remain as far from the answer as we always have. Like most things which require a bit of effort to untie, the audience will catch on later on down the line, or not at all. Things are only as clever as we are. That which is too far above and too far below is met with contention - a painful experience persists. Knots of confusion can defeat the greatest of men. Tongue tied and tearless - dried ducts and screaming souls. Swallowed by the rabbit hole as an act of surrender. You have to let go in order to think your way out of it - excavating the psyche piece by piece. Surveillance of perspective. The all-seeing eye.
Some of the coldest words to ever leave a human mouth were spoken on 'Niggardly(Blocked Call)'. Remorse remains somewhere off in the distance - the distance being a hopeful estimate. A resentful chill. Sub-zero bars. Dead links are left where they lie - alone to learn. Locked-off from those that once linked. A hope that progress is still possible fills the air, although an understanding that too little has met too late burns deep.
'Every answer gave in the form of a question.'
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