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  • Mar 26, 2021
    xviii

    Imo is a lot more subtle than Shrines of my first impressions, but I gotta sit with this way more. I wasn't even paying too much attention to lyrics but more production.

    Yeah I feel that. For me this first listen was a bit of a blur with some really crazy highlights. Brass hit me harder first listen but I know this is gonna age like wine

  • Mar 26, 2021
    SlicedBread

    Fye

    Love it

  • Mar 26, 2021
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    Armand Hammer setting the bar (again) for the new year

  • Mar 26, 2021
    RICHAXXVOYCE

    Armand Hammer setting the bar (again) for the new year

    for the genre* 🐐🐐 s***

  • Mar 26, 2021
    xviii

    Man I want more Stonefruit/Wishing Bad out of this album. If they do another collab I pray that it's just a bit more experimental because that's my taste, but man it's pretty consistent to their other works.

    Stonefruit is one of the reasons I'm a fan of Elucid. Anybody else and it would be cringe but he genuinely sounds like he's having fun on this one and it actually works well

  • Mar 26, 2021

    Said "Okay" to save face, but she never forgave
    It's only so many ways you can say grace, in truth
    She'd rather cry at your grave, all black regalia, we back not speakin'
    Back behind bougainvillea you can't peek in
    Marginalia, busy with symbols and equations
    The story too simple to calculate it, payment post dated
    The pavement gave way to a thicket of thorns
    Where the body lay naked as the day I was born
    She rock my teeth in her necklace, gold blood from a horn
    Ruby Woo facin' Mecca, hair disheveled and torn
    She left what was left in a ditch, she dream of the s***She finished on top and howled in the crook of my neck
    She dragged the bones home and built a bed
    She drank Rosé out the skull, but held it gentle as my living head

  • Mar 26, 2021
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    The cover turned a lot of heads when I sent it in the group chat

  • Mar 26, 2021

    This is some nasty s***

    Props to Alchemist for switching it up and bringing gnarly ass beats like Chicharonnes to keep up with these two, this sounds nothing like Alfredo but still brings that Alchemist class

  • Mar 26, 2021

    Quelle

  • Mar 26, 2021

    bro billy adlib game is hilarious man's comedic timing is godly

    dont let them do it man, dont let them do it, youknowtheyregonnadoit

  • Mar 26, 2021
    Lit

    so if it wasn't for Earl we wouldn't have had this album

    "Al, how long have these guys been on your radar, and how did the collaboration come together?

    Alchemist: 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 s*** 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."

    can you imagine the goddamn alchemist hits you with 'yo, im a fan', this is pure craziness

    figured it was earl who linked them which is awesome, hes been a day one for guys like billy, mach, KA

  • Mar 26, 2021

    elucid on Stonefruit kinda hits billy ending with the lady talk as usual too

  • Mar 26, 2021

    this is everything I wanted & more

  • Mar 26, 2021
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    I’d heard a verse from woods on an Evidence-produced joint with Mach-Hommy one time. So that’s what started my interest

    somebody pull that woods quote ab 383 myrtle and how he put everything in that verse but then realized it prob wont be heard by anybody bc its behind mach paywall

    I guess the right ppl heard it in the end

  • Mar 26, 2021
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    Thread had me thinking this wasn’t gonna be good.

  • Nah that outro is insane bruh wtf did I just listen to

  • Mar 26, 2021
    Lit

    https://www.gq.com/story/armand-hammer-the-alchemist-haram-interview

    "They're drafting apology e-mails rn"

    Lmao such a cold bar in an interview

  • black sunlight

  • Mar 26, 2021
    Vietbrah

    The cover turned a lot of heads when I sent it in the group chat

    Speaking of cover anyone got an alt

  • Mar 26, 2021
    WRU fuk em up

    I’d heard a verse from woods on an Evidence-produced joint with Mach-Hommy one time. So that’s what started my interest

    somebody pull that woods quote ab 383 myrtle and how he put everything in that verse but then realized it prob wont be heard by anybody bc its behind mach paywall

    I guess the right ppl heard it in the end

    Where did he say this?

  • Mar 26, 2021

    This album is unreal, al’s production levels out their flows almost perfectly

  • Mar 26, 2021
    YoungNastyShawty

    Thread had me thinking this wasn’t gonna be good.

    Lmao I knew it was gonna be great when I was seeing some regulars on this site saying it was “okay”

  • Mar 26, 2021
    WRU fuk em up

    I’d heard a verse from woods on an Evidence-produced joint with Mach-Hommy one time. So that’s what started my interest

    somebody pull that woods quote ab 383 myrtle and how he put everything in that verse but then realized it prob wont be heard by anybody bc its behind mach paywall

    I guess the right ppl heard it in the end

    Yes they did

    That was an anecdote I had shared over in the Mach thread. Attributed to September 2019. A few weeks before Terror Management dropped. And as revealed in that GQ interview, its crazy to think that just weeks after that Alchemist would hit him up with interest in a full project. And here we are.

    They killed it that night. Everyone go see them live if/when you get a chance.

  • Mar 26, 2021
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    woods in the Freedom Man tee

    ELUCID cracking up at 0:51

    Such a dope shot at 0:55 too with the traffic on both sides. And the stairs at the end.

    And that sample at the intro is the slickest entrance ever. Love it

  • Mar 26, 2021

    Haram in the whip