I open with this caveat: I haven’t had a ton of time to digest the surprise Armand Hammer record that dropped this week. Billy Woods and Elucid rarely miss, though, and my initial reaction is that Snakes & Ladders ranks among their best. It doesn’t have the seamless throughline production-wise that their collabs with Alchemist (Haram and Mercy) do, but it’s still clearly the singular vision of the two men at its center.