Just peeped the tour dates and its crazy he coming to Finland. Trying to mentally justify copping 100€ tickets to a festival and traveling to another city just for his set rn

Yup we’re in there

I've always been avoiding getting into it for whatever reason. Does it require seeding like torrents?

there's no seeding but it's common courtesy to put some of your own music to share, a good amount of users straight up don't allow you download from their library if you aren't sharing

I'ma definitely look further into it

catchy elucid

Excited to read this later, I f*** with Marcus’s writing. Longform on woods.

oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-120-spring-2023/billy-woods-madness-in-the-cupboards

From this article I posted above

“woods started rapping in 1998 when, upon moving to Harlem, he linked with a hip-hop collective called the Atoms Family that was co-founded by future indie rap stalwarts Vast Aire and Vordul Mega. He started hanging out with Mega, who encouraged woods to spit rhymes during freestyle cyphers … By 2001, Aire and Mega started rapping as the duo Cannibal Ox, and released their debut album, The Cold Vein, to massive acclaim. That, coupled with the rise of New York underground rap, enticed woods to get serious about his craft. He moved back to New York thinking he’d have a chance to rap on one of Mega’s songs. Once that fell through, thanks to a shoddy studio session caused by Mega’s handlers, woods launched his own label—Backwoodz Studioz—which he still operates today.“

Damn I had no idea woods was linking with CanOx back then that’s crazy

I read a 2013 article that mentioned his come up with CanOx earlier today. Might have to check this one too

nerdtorious.com/2013/01/09/time-goes-by-interview-with-billy-woods

this is Vordul and Woods over an El P beat in 08 lol crazy

backwoodzstudioz.bandcamp.com/album/high-bias
New label mixtape!

Oh s***, nice surprise

Okay, I need a ELUCID x Sebb Bash project

Who tf is Cavalier? That track is great

instagram.com/p/Cq6nRVIL5iF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

TONIGHT

Danny Brown feature with woods on Kenny Segal production is going to be insane

The second verse on this new single🔥🔥

Maps physicals and merch up on the Backwoodz site now.

Pricey deluxe with 2 extra tracks and a Serengeti feat

backwoodzstudioz.com/collections/vinyl/products/billy-woods-x-kenny-segal-maps-ltd-limited-2xvinyl-7x7-booklet

We like to think of this as the Maps director’s cut; it’s not necessarily better than the theatrical version, but it is different, and it arguably more clearly articulates the artists’ vision for the project. There are two more songs, the song order is different, and Serengeti makes a guest appearance that substantively changes a third song, all the way down to it’s title. This a 2XLP in a gatefold jacket with an insert, and a 40 page lyric book all gorgeously illustrated by m. musgrove, including Backwoodz's first-ever vinyl etching on Side D. The deluxe version of Maps is exclusive to Backwoodz Studioz direct orders and will not be available anywhere else. Purchase from Backwoodz includes digital download delivered on street date.

DELUXE VINYL TRACKLISTING

Kenwood Speakers
Soft Landing
Soundcheck featuring Quelle Chris
Rapper Weed
Blue Smoke
Free Internet
Babylon by Bus featuring ShrapKnel
Year Zero featuring Danny Brown
Hangman
Baby Steps featuring ELUCID & Benjamin Booker
Bad Dreams Are More than Dreams featuring Serengeti
The Layover
FaceTime featuring Sam Herring
Agriculture
Houdini
Dumbwaiter
Waiting Around featuring Aesop Rock
NYC Tapwater
As The Crow Flies featuring ELUCID

Bandcamp up too

billywoods.bandcamp.com/album/maps

Maps is the new album from NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, their first full collaboration since 2019’s Hiding Places. Four years after that landmark record, the duo have reunited with a vengeance. Maps is a story of the road, or roads, taken and untaken; of living the dream and dreaming of another life. It is an album about trying to find your way home, after making your home wherever you lay your head.

“Kenny and I made more songs together before Hiding Places than we did after,” woods says. “I think we only collaborated once over the last four years and although we didn’t talk about it, I think we wanted to let that energy build again. Neither of us wanted to make Hiding Places 2. We needed to go on other journeys, artistic and otherwise, to come back and do something fresh.”

Produced in full by Kenny Segal, Maps features Danny Brown, ELUCID (Armand Hammer), Shabaka Hutchins, Sam Herring (Future Islands), Quelle Chris, Aesop Rock, Benjamin Booker, and ShrapKnel. Segal moves effortlessly through styles but everything is underpinned with deep basslines and mean drums laid down like railroad tracks. Weaving between poignant memoir, deadpan humor, and incandescent bursts of surrealism, Maps cements both artists’ place amongst the best of their time.

Damn I gotta get that deluxe

I just flicked it in

Dude I legit can’t afford vinyl anymore living in Canada when it isn’t from a local shop. I was gonna grab Maps and Spirit Roaming too while I was at it and it was gonna be $150 after shipping and exchange rate