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title: "Armand Hammer release Snakes & Ladders, a 16-track album from New York rappers billy woods and E L U C I D"
url: https://badiyaa.com/armand-hammer-snakes-ladders-album/
published: 2026-11-11T05:33:00+00:00
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# Armand Hammer release Snakes & Ladders, a 16-track album from New York rappers billy woods and E L U C I D

Armand Hammer, the New York duo of billy woods and E L U C I D, have released Snakes & Ladders, a 16-track album on Backwoodz Studioz.

Armand Hammer have a new album out. *Snakes & Ladders*, the latest record from New York rappers billy woods and E L U C I D, is now streaming as a 16-song set that runs 43 minutes and 28 seconds, released through woods’ own label, Backwoodz Studioz.

The official listing shows a different collaborator credited on almost every track, a guest roll that reads like a map of experimental rap in 2026: the Los Angeles trio clipping., producer Kenny Segal, Sebb Bash, Child Actor, Animoss, Preservation, Jeff Markey, Therevada, DJ Haram, the duo Saint Abdullah and Eomac, longtime Backwoodz engineer Steel Tipped Dove and rapper $ilkMoney.

## Who gets the most room

A quick count of the credits shows where the album leans. Sebb Bash appears on three of the 16 tracks, more than anyone else. Kenny Segal shows up three times as well, once in a pairing with Messiah Musik, who worked on the duo’s earliest records. Mekala Session is credited twice. The rest each appear once, which means roughly a dozen outside hands shaped a record that still clocks in under 45 minutes.

Several of those names have history with the group. Kenny Segal, Child Actor and DJ Haram all worked on *We Buy Diabetic Test Strips*, the 2023 album. Steel Tipped Dove and Messiah Musik go back to the very beginning, the 2013 mixtape *Half Measures* and the debut LP *Race Music*. Jeff Markey, Saint Abdullah and Eomac all had the duo on their own records in the past three years, so *Snakes & Ladders* reads partly as a return of favors.

## Thirteen years, eight albums

The duo formed around 2013 after New York rapper Uncommon Nasa introduced the two MCs. E L U C I D had already rapped twice on woods’ 2012 solo album *History Will Absolve Me*, though woods was wary of a group project at first because of bad past experiences. They named the act after the American oil industrialist and art collector Armand Hammer.

Here is the studio run so far, compiled from the group’s discography:

- *Race Music* (2013), the debut

- *Rome* (2017), four years later

- *Paraffin* (2018)

- *Shrines* (2020), with Earl Sweatshirt among the guests

- *Haram* (2021), the first collaborative album with producer the Alchemist

- *We Buy Diabetic Test Strips* (2023)

- *Mercy* (2025), a second Alchemist collaboration

- *Snakes & Ladders* (2026), out now

That makes this the group’s eighth studio album and the third in four years, arriving almost exactly 12 months after *Mercy* came out on November 7, 2025. Every one of those projects has come out through Backwoodz Studioz, which woods founded in 2002 and runs with Anton Schlesinger.

## A busy week for the duo’s catalog

The release lands as fans revisit one of the pair’s best-known guest spots. Badiyaa this week looked back at [Earl Sweatshirt’s 2022 track Tabula Rasa, which features Armand Hammer](https://badiyaa.com/earl-sweatshirt-tabula-rasa-armand-hammer/). Earl also turned up on the duo’s 2020 album *Shrines* and on “California Games,” a 2025 single with the pair. For more New York rap history, see our piece on [the day Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest dropped classics in 1993](https://badiyaa.com/wu-tang-36-chambers-tribe-midnight-marauders-november-9-1993/).

The duo’s last release before this album was “No Future Pt. 1 & 2,” a 2026 single. *Snakes & Ladders* is on streaming services now, with 16 tracks and a running time of 43:28.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Armand Hammer (group)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer_(group))

*Illustrative image. Image: Meghmollar2017, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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