the thread where ilxors find out who billy woods is

Also didn't know he was still active. Def have some catching up to do, so thanks, Jordan!

Saw Billy woods and Kenny earlier tonight in DC. Good show . Lots of passion and emotion in his delivery. In between songs he reminisced about living in Dc — writing rhymes in Malcolm X Park, cutting grass to make money.

Oh, due to marketing and location of the gig at a small rock club that rarely has rap, it was the least diverse rap show audience in DC I think ( white ) me has been in ; with 96% of crowd white like me and the DJ

cutting grass to make money.

He raps about that on the new one iirc

Saw him and Segal last night Minneapolis, at a venue I had never been to or frankly even heard of before, so it was a pretty small crowd, but a great, great show, they played nearly 90 minutes

Maps sinks its teeth in slowly eh

incredibly cool to have a great rap record be overwhelmingly a slice-of-life rumination

probably loads of examples of that but it feels particularly true of this one

final verse of babylon by bus straight into first verse of year zero is unfair

He's playing at Big Ears Festival next year. See you in the pit?

music festival lineups are certainly one thing the US has the UK licked in

Ehh. Not sure about that. We have plenty of shit festival lineups. A few that are still actually curated. It's probably just a numbers game relative to population.

yeah but I looked up the Big Ears lineup and was all like 'we have nothing even a fifth as good as that here'

Just go to Le Guess Who. He'll be there.

the forthcoming Armand Hammer record is excellent, dizzying stuff. Not as approachable as Maps, a pretty pointed headfuck actually, but really worth getting deep into.

It's on Fat Possum, which I thought might mean the vinyl was a bit more affordable, but Juno's preorder price is £54??

somehow have not yet listened to an Armand Hammer album

...despite promising to ten months ago, oops lol

Will amend presently

Fuck this goes kind of insane right

Would say that Maps slightly edges it for how strongly it works as a full album, and how it ends, but Paraffin reaches insane intensity levels through the middle

fuck this is amazing

new armand hammer is typically great. billy and elucid bring out each other’s competitive side, and while billy still does his 1000 year stare thing in his rhymes, there’s still a sense that they’re trying to make each other laugh

white women with pepper spray in their purse interpolating beyonce

Don't invite me to your house, ask me to remove my shoes and your floors ain't clean

yes that line stuck with me too

a solid morning listen

livin the dream i walked out of denny's like it was ruth chris, grabbin toothpicks

really hoped this being on another label might mean the vinyl wasn't £££ but