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Hey everyone, Anthony Satano here, the
internet's busiest music nerd, and it's
time for a review of this new album from
Billy Woods. Elusive underground rapper,
New York lyricist extraordinaire,
veteran of the game at this point, Mr.
Billy Woods. He is back with a new album
as he continues to build one of the most
consistent but also sprawling
discoraphies in hip-hop today. And the
pace he's been hitting as of late has
just been super prolific, too. In just
the past 10 years, if you count all of
his solo efforts and the albums he's put
out uh within his side duo, Arand
Hammer, he's put out about like 15
albums, not to mention all the features
he's done over that course of time. And
also, he runs his own record label with
an entire roster of Left Field rappers
and producers. And artistically, he's
been on a really impressive run lately,
too. He had that maps with Kenny Seagull
record, uh, Ethiopes, a few great Armen
Hammer projects, too. One of which was
produced entirely by The Alchemist,
which is one of many signs we have been
seeing recently in Billy's career that
he's really hit this peak of respect and
credibility among his fellow artists in
the music community, among creatives who
are truly in the know. He is an artist's
artist. And I think he's proving the
validity of that once again on this
latest LP. Now, in some respects on this
project, we have the same old Billy
Woods once again as he continues to
stick to his guns and hone his lyrical
craft, but there are definitely some new
mindblowing envelope pushing ideas here
and there on this record, too. Now, if I
could kind of characterize this record
in a nutshell, it does remind me of some
of Billy's uh classic works. be it
history will absolve me or today I wrote
nothing just a popery of disperate ideas
as well as reference points that are all
pulled together pretty tightly by
Billy's uh signature writing and rap
style but if there's anything that makes
this latest iteration of that uh feel a
bit different this is probably one of
the most sound effect heavy releases I
think Billy has done solo as he also
leans into a series of instrumentals
that sound even more like uh something
that would work maybe more in a
soundtrack than traditionally a hip-hop
album, be it on tracks like
Counterclockwise or the deeply trippy
All These Worlds Are Yours. And Billy is
one of a few hip-hop artists who I think
uh this slight shift in direction could
actually work for as for the most part I
don't think he is just simply a rapper.
I don't think describing him just as
that is all that accurate. He is very
much also a teller of tales, a lyrical
painter of pictures. And as far as the
modern rap landscape is concerned, I
very much find Billy to be unparalleled
when it comes to uh the sorts of details
and nuances he conveys when telling us
about something as simple as like a drug
deal, for example. But on this
particular album, it's not simply enough
for him to be giving these very indepth
lyrical descriptions of a given
situation. No, he needs to be surrounded
by music and sounds that make it seem as
if he is in the thick of the thing that
he is rapping about. like some kind of
Rod Surling Twilight Zone rap
commentarian guiding us through these uh
various dow situations and horrors he
describes like on the song Jump Scare
for example which kicks off with the
sound of like a film projector turning
some freaky buzzing noises as well as
eerie music box melodies that eventually
evolve into some hand drums very minimal
bass and a lot of lyrical descriptions
of what seems like uh the exploitative
native surroundings of a diamond mine in
Africa. Billy gives us bar after bar
describing all of this while
simultaneously acknowledging his own
generational connection to colonialism,
the context he is in within it. The
English language is violence. I hotwired
it. I got a hold of the master's tools
and got dialed in. The vivid
connections, descriptions, and lyricism
continue deeper into the album. Of
course, be it on Misery where we get a
lot of sultry horn samples and lyrical
descriptions of what seems like a very
toxic romantic dynamic that Billy is
very much uh infatuated with despite
bars like ragged holes in my throat, but
I love to see those lips shiny with
blood. There's also Black Exmus
featuring Bruiser Wolf of Bruiser
Brigade Fame, who not only lends a great
opening verse to the track, but his bars
uh help bolster this image of
destitution, including passages from
Billy where he's literally describing a
family uh getting kicked out on the
holidays by their landlord. And if
you're looking for some nasty or even
sometimes funny landlord bars, uh, Billy
has got them on this record, including
one section of the album where, uh, a
landlord is trying to, uh, boot him out
or get him to leave the building so he
can make more money off of it. Uh, but
he keeps coming up with the rent checks
because I guess music is doing well
enough to keep him where he's living.
Following this waterproof mascara is
very much a song that is about paranoia,
distrust, potentially a death in the
family as well. And what sort of like
intensifies all these themes is that uh
laced into the production persistently
is the sound of a woman weeping. Like
the weeping is literally chopped up in a
way where it's it's very consistent and
almost like rhythmic within the beat.
The eerie ascent of instrumentation on
Corinthians is most definitely a very
powerful and cinematic highlight on the
record. Also love the Despot feature on
that track, the LP production. Love that
Despot continues to be like one of the
biggest what-ifs in the underground of
hiphop. And one of the few people he
will come out of the woodwork for is
Billy Woods to do a feature. But yeah,
the biblical references especially from
Despot on this track uh are incredible,
very thoughtful and uh loving the almost
2001 a space odyssey Prague synth horror
going on with the production here.
Macaloris is a dissertation on racism in
America told partially through the views
of writer and political philosopher
France Fenan. There are bars on this
track where Billy is providing almost
like an ideological counterpoint while
still agreeing with like obviously some
of his original points saying Fenan
dreamed of death every night in the
desert. Woke in hospital bed CIA
handlers gently pressing wishing he died
out there in the sand bayoneted. He had
the wrong answer to the right
question. After this, a doll full of
pins is a surprisingly soulful and
bluesy number with a big saxled
instrumental, stellar guest vocals from
Yolanda Watson 2, and lyrics from Billy
that tell of a very intense and dark
crazy insane nightmare that ties into
the album's lyrics. Because there's a
lot of themes of Billy's past and his
family and sometimes upbringing on this
record, feelings and experiences and
thoughts that he may have had as a kid.
There are certainly a lot of themes of
like you know going home in one's past
on the song led paint test with after
that many of the album's themes of
belonging to a certain place and maybe
the African diaspora to an extent uh
being explored on dislocated. This also
kind of comes up in a way on the track
Black Zombie, too, as I think Billy does
his best to try to describe the mental
sickness and psychosis associated with
living in a modern era that is so
hostile and racist and materialistic and
narcissistic where there's like really
no community or hope to glean from the
context that we're living in. like this
is very dark, very pessimistic uh album
in a lot of respects, which I know I
mean those are very consistent themes
throughout a lot of Billy's records, but
like he's really leaning into it here
for sure. I will say if there are some
downsides to this record though, it's
that some of these more abstract cuts
that are leaning more into effects and
uh background space, they do come across
more like uh random one-offs or
vignettes than they do like proper
actual fleshed out songs. not just
musically, but lyrically as well. As
occasionally, I do wish for Billy to uh
lean into the picture he's trying to
paint a little bit more, make it a bit
clearer, or maybe even work toward a
stronger point or conclusion with what
he's trying to say. With all of that
being said though, it is very clear
Billy Woods is a man who is haunted by
his past, the present, too, and very
much worried about the future as well.
There is no context in which uh this man
can think or exist where there is not
some kind of like dark cloud hanging
over him. And the display of all of that
for Billy I think is proving to be
pretty powerful once again on this new
record. Even if I do think it has one of
the choppier flows of his past several
albums and is maybe not like tied up as
succinctly I guess which is why I'm
feeling a decent two strong seven on
this LP transition. Have you given this
album a listen? Did you love it? Did you
hate it? What would you rate it? You're
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