Armand Hammer “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die,” as one does. Find out what she said in the JPEGMAFIA-produced track below.
The experimental track begins with a collage of sounds, from sampled audio about the joys of “JPEGS” to calming, reverb-heavy vocalizations. It takes about a minute for billy woods and ELUCID to begin rapping, and soon enough, the hallucinatory track fades out.
Despite its brief nature, billy woods spoke highly of “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die,” the second single from the upcoming album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, in a statement. “I think that every project I worked on, you are kinda waiting to make your first track that is more than the sum of its parts,” he said. “Because some tracks have a dope verse and a really good beat and a great hook, and the song is really dope and that’s cool. That’s a win, for sure, but there are other songs out there.”
woods continued, “The ones where all the parts swirl in a unique orbit, building upon each other and all of a sudden the whole thing is floating. Alchemy. Base metals turn to gold, etc. That’s really the moment I’m always waiting for when I start on a new creative journey. That unmistakable signpost. On We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, there were more than a few such moments, but this was the very first one. One take and it was like, yeah that’s it.”
Armand Hammer’s sixth studio album arrives September 29th via Fat Possum Records and features the previously released single “Trauma Mic.” Come October, the hip-hop duo will embark on a lengthy tour of North America and Europe, and tickets are on sale here.
