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In a morning walk around his Brooklyn neighborhood last year, billy woods, one half of the rap duo Armand Hammer, began to see strange signs nailed on lamp poles and abandoned walls, selling diabetic test strips.

“We Buy Diabetic Test Strips,” their sixth studio album, captures why Armand Hammer is one of the most dynamic underground rap groups in the country, speaking to communities that the mainstream has forgotten.

Backed by grimy, atmospheric music, Armand Hammer’s descriptions of life amid gentrification, commercialization and unrelenting capitalism — the feeling the state’s boot is constantly resting on your neck — place them firmly in the tradition of the late ’90s underground hip-hop label Definitive Jux, along with the great tabloid columnist Jimmy Breslin, Giuliani-era Spike Lee, and John Steinbeck.

woods, who never shows his face in pictures, is a bare knuckle brawler of a rapper, mixing loquaciousness with political knowledge inherited from a Jamaican literature scholar mother and Zimbabwean revolutionary father.

Since their first collaboration in 2013’s “Race Music,” they rattled over four acclaimed albums, including 2021’s “Haram” (with legendary boom bap producer the Alchemist), a career-defining record that is jazzy and colorful compared to their trademark maximalist abrasion.

Fat Possum Records, a notable independent label that signed indie rock singer Soccer Mommy is distributing “Strips.” Now, the duo is ready to embark on a worldwide tour.

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