When he gets to the table, Elucid and woods gently sift through the stack, humbled at their own history staring them in the face, and patiently sign each and every record.Īll of the nearly two dozen artists I spoke to for this piece cosigned the label’s atmosphere of financial trust and creative freedom. One loyalist who traveled an hour and a half to see Armand Hammer perform carries a cardboard box under his arm stuffed with Backwoodz vinyl, including out-of-print albums and special editions. By the time I make it to the front, certain CDs are completely sold out. The line for Backwoodz merch curls through one entrance and circles back into another. Several people let their rap hands fly, including one in the mosh pit who’s rapping every word to the eerie “ Scaffolds,” including ominous parables in miniature like, “Men wrack our brains over past deeds/Indeed the ground’s cold but the bones not deep.”Īfter their set it becomes even clearer how deep the fandom runs.
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A cheer erupts from the back of the room when the psychedelic beat for “ Black Sunlight” churns to life, before woods offsets the smooth instrumental with bars that zip from the disgraced investment bank Bear Stearns to Wesley Snipes’ taxes to KMD’s cult classic 1993 album Black Bastards, like a deadpan Ghostface Killah. Later in the year, he collaborated with Kaytranada on the song "$payforhaiti," then released another well-received album, Balens Cho (Hot Candles).By the time they start running through their songs as a duo under the moniker Armand Hammer, particularly from 2021’s Haram , their collaborative album with the Alchemist, the diehard fans of woods’ long-running Backwoodz Studioz label truly reveal themselves. Focusing on Haiti's cultural and political history more than Hommy's past releases, the album was among the year's most acclaimed, and brought the rapper's music to a wider audience. Hommy reconciled with Griselda and released Pray for Haiti, executive produced by Westside Gunn, in 2021.
Full-length Mach's Hard Lemonade appeared in 2020, featuring many of the same contributors. Hommy's EP Wap Kon Jòj! was released by Nature Sounds, with appearances from Quelle Chris, the Alchemist, and Navy Blue. Two collaborations with DJ Muggs, Tuez-les Tous and Kill Em All, appeared on the Cypress Hill member's Soul Assassins Records in 2019. 2018 brought Bulletproof Luh, on British label Bad Taste Records, as well as several additional releases with Fahim.
Hommy released nearly a dozen projects in 2017, including three Dollar Menu releases with Fahim, Dump Gawd: Hommy Edition, Dumpmeister, The G.A.T., and EPs with Knxwledge and Earl Sweatshirt. Hommy executive produced Fahim's 2016 album TGIF, and the two began working together under the name Dump Gawd, which became a loose collective also featuring collaborators like Your Old Droog and Al Divino. Copies were initially only available by directly messaging the artist, before the album eventually became available on streaming services.Īfter falling out with Griselda, Hommy began working extensively with Tha God Fahim, an even more prolific rapper and producer based in Atlanta. (Haitian Body Odor) was released by Griselda that year. Mach-Hommy appeared on Don't Get Scared Now, a 2016 EP by Westside Gunn and Conway of Buffalo's Griselda collective, and his full-length H.B.O. His little-heard first mixtape, Goon Grizzle, originally appeared in 2004, and numerous releases surfaced during the early 2010s, including the 2013 full-length F.Y.I. Mach-Hommy hails from Newark, though he has also lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital city. 2021's masterful Pray for Haiti became Hommy's most widely heard and acclaimed album to date, and the shorter but similarly focused Balens Cho (Hot Candles) followed later in the year. emerged as cult favorites, and collaborations with the likes of Earl Sweatshirt, DJ Muggs, and the Alchemist expanded his profile. Nevertheless, he earned a dedicated following, as under-the-radar releases like 2016's H.B.O. He is highly protective of his art, forbidding lyric sites to post transcriptions of the words to his songs, and he charges hundreds and even thousands of dollars for his releases, most of which aren't available on streaming services. His dense, tightly wound lyrics, loaded with deadpan one-liners, are heavily related to the social and political history of his Haitian heritage - he often raps in Kreyol and a Haitian flag folded into a bandana obscures his face nearly every time he is photographed. New Jersey-based rapper and producer Mach-Hommy became a cult figure through his tireless work ethic and the sheer quality of his work, as well as his elusiveness.
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