im in love with this album

Kenny Segal really came through with the versatility and all the beats sound beautiful whether it’s on nice speakers, headphones or off the iphone. Every color of the jazz-rap instrumental spectrum is represented

“Plot the Coup while I cop the P”

“Babylon by Bus”

Wow, woods in the Guardian

theguardian.com/music/2023/may/08/david-attenborough-weed-and-american-apartheid-the-awesome-mind-of-rapper-billy-woods

Brilliant album,

Caught him lackin on 9/11 😳

Favorite interview of the Maps run yet, goddamn this one was good. Who knows the next press stop, might be GQ. Might be the New Yorker. Nothing out of consideration at this point

His other album of that year, Church, was inspired by his buying a batch of weed that he describes as “a classic strain I hadn’t seen in a long time, and became the launching point for an album about a certain time in my life, a certain era in New York, and blossomed out from that into concepts of faith and belief.”

this guy really made In Search of Lost Dime: A Remembrance of Spliffs Past, I couldn’t stan any harder at this point

Caught him lacking on 9/11

Danny all the way went in on Year Zero lmao

The line about two active shooters at the same time is crazy

Billy really makes black comedies

Really good s***

I remember seeing this vid showing off his process and his approach to sampling is just beautiful

Forget which songs but “Purple Haze had your boy like ‘Come home with me’” and the line about survivor’s guilt with a side of buyer’s remorse are some of my other faves. Also “Ready to die, it’s no biggie”.

Oi Oi

I'm pretty sure that tracks samples Aphex Twin

What Aphex Twin song?

Sit up
Push up
BICYCLE KICK

Honestly I just let those albums play out so I have no idea about the track titles. This song has a similar melody but I'm not sure if its what I'm thinking of

The gym song to end all gym songs

Also love the Blood Meridian and LL Cool J references.

Ready to die it’s no biggie,
No surprise,no pity

Is one of the hardest ways to open a song I’ve ever heard lmao

vulture.com/2023/05/billy-woods-maps-backwoodz-interview.html

Another one, this time with the always-on-point CraigSJ

is it just me or is this album sounding pretty accessible by woods' standards

In the introduction to the interview Craig plainly states something that I think a lot of people have been feeling, even on here (though it manifests strangely): that rap is/can be a form of literature, and woods advances the argument for that in spectacular fashion. I feel so stupid for not realizing something so basic 🤦‍♂️ just some dumb s*** where you can say a rapper should win the Pulitzer but you don’t realize the root cause of where that comes from, because it’s inherently literary and linguistic