Brooklyn rapper billy woods is one of the most enigmatic figures to come out of the ongoing avant-rap renaissance. His new album ‘Maps’ follows the dizzying hero’s journey of a blossoming indie star.
— he stylizes his name in lowercase letters — has reigned as an unlikely hero of left-of-center hip-hop. A protégé of influential Cannibal Ox rapper Vordul Mega, he emerged just as the subterranean New York scene centered around critically lionized label Definitive Jux began to fragment. Unlike many of his peers who disappeared into CD-R obscurity, woods kept grinding with his Backwoodz Studios imprint.
Enigmatic to a fault, woods has never publicly released his government name and only agrees to photographs if his face is blurred out. He addresses heady themes, from trying to survive psychologically in a rapacious capitalistic society to the aftereffects of colonialism in the African Diaspora. He has an uncanny way of rapping in a clear Brooklynese accent while stacking so many details that the listener is left dizzy, unsure what they all mean.
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