Damn with more listens, I actually really enjoy Shrines. So many highlights. I do feel like some of the features were kinda insubstantial tho.. But I loved KeiyaA's, Quelle's, and FIELDED, of course

I got ideals and dreams that don't work in practice
I got a time machine and it don't go backwards
A list of ill-fated quick licks under refrigerator magnets
Above a school trip permission slip
That's a Afrofuturism you consent to watch after
Big hand captured, little man chasing, it do tick faster

Yeah features were extremely forgettable though I liked Milo, keiyaa, and FIELDEDKA twigs

big big grower

elucid is shining throughout this tbh

Caught feelings off an old pictureHit her up like "I still miss ya!"Two words: "Nigga, please"Fair enough...

What are your fav short stories by billy woods?
He often has 2-4 bars stories in verse drop your favs

Does anyone remember the song where billy says he could pause the moment and live in it forever?

“Like I said, it's a lot of time wasted, it's a lot
Sorry, skimmed through your music, found no reason not to approve it
It was all relatively toothless, you're just a guy“

Great Fires off of Terror Management?

'Like a beat loop'

Gonna post the text of this cause I nearly missed it without clicking inside. Thanks for sharing it

The final day of recording for Shrines was a daylong, down-to-the-wire affair. The Greenhouse was packed well into the evening as artists came and went, elbow to elbow on the couch passing spliffs and writing. Each verse laid down in front of your peers, reading their faces and body language through the glass as the engineer runs it back. Worried calls to the star singer whom our lead single depended on, only to have her show up and absolutely crush it with no time left on the clock. It was the sort of recording session I rarely have anymore, and likely will not have again anytime soon. I remember thinking it was a fitting send-off for an album with such intimate beginnings; ELUCID and I writing in a UK Airbnb while Kenny Segal made beats. Kenny had just joined the tour and we had a couple day layover in Edinburgh, so Shrines started out of boredom as much as anything else (no offense Edinburgh!).

When the last of our guests departed the Brooklyn studio and ELUCID, Willie Green and I were gathering our things there was a palpable sense of victory. I told them the three of us should go out and get a drink when the album dropped, celebrate and talk about what was next.

Only a few months later, that seems like a distant memory. The album drops tonight, no one is going out to get any drinks and no one knows what is next. I don’t need to explain why. All of you have lived those same months we have, all of you see what is happening outside our doors right now, you know what grips our hearts. I also have no intention of conflating this album release with the defiant fury in America’s streets; that generational unmasking of our national schizophrenia, which always surprises even though we are never truly surprised. Suffice it to say, this is not what we imagined when June 5th was circled on the calendar. That said, great art has a way of “arriving” on it’s own time, notwithstanding our carefully plotted calendars and imagined intentions. I think I can speak for all of us at Backwoodz in saying that we think this is a special record. It is our sincere hope that Shrines is right on schedule, we just didn’t know it yet. Take care of yourselves, and each other.

billy woods

Dont worry it aint just us

Lmao even his features don’t know

"My mother used to say, ”A bad penny finds its own way to hell”. They love when you fashion they own crosses, beg me to drive the nails. Follow the Devil to the highest place, the pinnacle. The wilderness vibrate. Do-gooders miserable. The Pilate silent but that's a signal too"

🤯🤯🤯

"did Jay actually listen to D'Evils, or did he just skim through it? I took a Shyne to ‘em and turned Jewish”

Who drops the mic with an out of nowhere shot at Jay-Z

Also, did not pick up that he was referencing Shyne till just now.

“I’m chillin' like Africans who never felt the whip
Dish served room temp, escovitch fish
Always better when you pry it out they cold, dead grip, grip”

woods and Elucid always have the most fire first lines

This album is pretty incredible

When you get to heaven the first thing you hear is Charms

That track has been stuck in my head the last two days. Such a wild beat, the video is perfect for it.

Tumbled out the ether, my blank verse
Wild jungle out this speaker, rare earths