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Nothing but admiration for the tremendous words of billy woods. JUST SAY HE'S THE BEST, LET'S NOT ARGUE!
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billy woods is "one of the best wordsmiths around right now — I hate that I said the word ‘wordsmith,’ but whatever."
- Lucy Dacus of boygenius
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I write when my baby's asleep
I sit in the room, in the dark
I listen to him breathe
I walk em to school, then the park
Hold they little hands when we cross the street
I think about my brothers that's long gone
and this was all they ever dreamed
ALL THEY EVER DREAMED
-billy woods
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one year ago today
billy woods x Preservation - Aethiopes
(Backwoodz x Big Love Japan edition)
one of the best albums of 2022
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AETHIOPES
this album is some top-tier, top-shelf grade AAAA outstanding output from everyone involved. the production from Pres, all the guest verses, the transitions...and lyrically? woods has won the game and is now playing on GOD MODE
"rap with the cheat code" - billy woods
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I'll never forget the rush of pride
Women ululatin, men drunk
Strong spirits, dueling drums
The calloused thumbs of mbira players
The ride home at dusk
Faring students and strangers
Feelin like we won
Road blocks manned by mere boys
Wide smiles and long, black guns
- billy woods
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"Read everything you can. Then read it again with eyes narrowed."
- billy woods
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$400 Japanese jeans
(they’re actually very comfortable)
- billy woods
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THANK YOU ALL FOR FOLLOWING ME
I won't be posting regularly anymore
I'm just busy... I *might* respawn on another platform someday? Not too sure
A huge thank you to billy woods. I will continue to be one of your biggest fans!
- wordsofwoods
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For every Jack Harlow, it's a white boy who didn't make it and works in crypto and intellectual property
YOU CAN'T COPY ME
- billy woods
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For a brief, sweet moment
it was nothing in the thought bubble
- billy woods
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This what it look like when OGs come home with baggy jeans
Suspicious like, It ain't nothin' in that weed?
Confused like, How it ain't no drums in the beat?
Only certainty is, he done with the streets
Told me if he go up again, it will end at the end of a sheet
- billy woods
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For the average listener who doesn't listen to this type of music, they would hear this and just cut the shit off, like instantly. But if you give it a chance... The beat, the mixing, the mastering, the lyrics, everything. There's so much effort put into this.
- Definition of iLL
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In his artwork for Armand Hammer, ShrapKnel, Penpals & more, Shane Ingersoll summons a chaotic apocalypse.
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Life is short
Who am I to judge how you Terror Manage?
- billy woods
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My neighbors got foreigns in the carport
I'm across the street in an eyesore
- billy woods (Maps - Free Internet)
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It's a lotta shit negroes shoulda did
Not saying I do
I Don't Like Shit, stay inside the crib
Smoke an oop
- billy woods
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billy woods x Messiah Musik = Church
THANK YOU WOODS for yet another project
Prolific output that never disappoints
I don't know how you do it... Greatest ever!
I'll be supporting BACKWOODZ 'til the day I die
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Before seeking revenge, dig two graves
Gon' need one for you, one for them
One for you, one for them
ONE FOR YOU, ONE FOR THEM
- billy woods
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KEYS TO THE KINGDOM
PERPETRATOR PLAY THE VICTIM
- billy woods
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Where I'm from, you don't see fireflies
Smell burning in the air
WILDFIRES BACKLIGHTING THE SKY
- billy woods
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Every victory pyrrhic
Every live show, forget the lyric
- billy woods
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"woods is a f*ckin’ apex predator. He is objectively one of the greatest writers in hip-hop, period. There’s an account on Twitter that just tweets woods’ lyrics and it doesn’t even need music"
- Gabe 'Nandez
An interview with Gabe 'Nandez about collaborating with billy woods, rapping in French, the perils of addiction, the genius of DOOM and Roc Marci, and his latest and greatest, "Pangea."
By
@kevin_crandall1
@GabeNandez
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Think in cursive, spit jagged fragments
Every word out my mouth
drag my people backwards
- billy woods
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It’s like you can't joke around anymore
Who'd have guessed skinny Chappelle get so ripped
only have one joke left at the end of it all
- billy woods
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I TAKE GREAT PAINS NOT TO SOUND LIKE YOU LAMES
- billy woods
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Apes stood and walked into the future
March of Progress end hunchbacked front the computer
- billy woods
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Shakespearean vengeance
Rest assured, there's curtains at the ending
- billy woods 383 Myrtle
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Through the Looking Glass, Robert Mugabe watches Bob Marley perform Zimbabwe, feeling out of body
Fresh out the bush, still see the bodies
Pompeii, History Will Absolve Me, prolly
Botched robbery, 2Pac in the lobby
- billy woods
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Is it rap beef or is it on sight?
Talking out they teeth
Don't even know what I look like
I think I'ma be aight
- billy woods
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Thirty-two bars on how to rob and kill your neighbors
Still got the nerve to ask g_d to save ya
- billy woods
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BURY ME IN A BORROWED SUIT
Give my babies my rhyme books
But tell em DO YOU
- billy woods
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𝑁𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝐵𝑜𝑦?
William Woods, Esquire
𝑂𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛?
Black Survivor, Dried goods
PURVEYOR OF THAT FIRE
Sometimes minimal-wage earner
Menial worker, Rhyme-sayer for hire
- billy woods
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Rather be codependent than codefendants
If it's up to me, we'd mend the fences
- billy woods
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I had to do wrong off of intuition
Son asked what I be doin' in the kitchen
Kid, I'm tryna beat the fuckin' system
- billy woods
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It's a freedom in admitting it's not gonna get better
Washing your hands of people you've known forever
- billy woods
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This gray Sunday, stayed in...
A Black Sabbath I spun backwards
FIRE IN THE HOLE to OLD FRIEND
- billy woods
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Told mom
“I'm 'bout to win me a Grammy”
She checked my grammar
“Don't embarrass this family”
- billy woods
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Chimney full of sinners
Soot and cinders
Gold teeth in the black dust
The chimney cook all winter
- billy woods
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No surprise, the rich suggest you do more with less - billy woods
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Life gave me lemonade, I pour my spirit of choice
The trees weapons-grade, it's not that I'm 'noid
UN inspectors upstairs, I'm tryin' not to make a noise
Wave one hand like, "All that gotta get destroyed"
- billy woods
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This year? It’s no honorable mentions
Unify the belts, end all dissension
108 mic Pulitzer prizefights
left the crowd wincing
- billy woods
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"This album is dedicated to New York City for holding me down, literally and figuratively."
- billy woods DOUR CANDY
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$4M USD
hovering over
some mud huts
IT'S NUTS
- billy woods
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Fuck a flip
I told my whiteboy
Just loop it
- billy woods
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It's certain things you can only learn from a fistfight
I used to use a toothbrush to keep my kicks white
It mattered that much
- billy woods
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“These guys somehow find a way, every album, to say crazy shit but in a new way. Every single time. I don’t know how we have this many albums, and they’re still doing this.”
- Myke C-Town (Dead End Hip Hop)
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My advice?
Don't stop rhymin'
UPS not hirin'
And this ain't the glory days
You can't get consignment
- billy woods
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Backstage, homie like "Bro, that was great"
Half my age, tryna trade cassette tapes
—
I don't even have a cassette player, man
- billy woods
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American-made Negroes
replaced by cheaper Chinese units
Batteries Not Included
Simple algorithms recreate artisanal Black music
I'M GETTIN' MONEY is what the computers 'puted
- billy woods
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They mediocre — I been the best
Don't wait and say it after my death
- billy woods
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You a soldier, you followed orders
Once the war was won, switched fatigues for corporate
Suits and ties, but close those eyes
Still see em clear as portraits
Watching yourself go thru the motions
Pretending your not dead, adrift in a black ocean
- billy woods
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If you off the pig, is you offin pigs or offerin figs?
Oh you big and bad? Blowin hay & sticks, huffin bricks
Clip the snout to spite the mouth, right the lips
Put it on the spit, pig roast! Who got jokes?
Fryers for the skin, cold swine shoulders get the smoke
- Quelle Chris
NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy is assisted after being affected by a chemical irritant. Video of the incident appears to show McCarthy deploy his pepper spray - possibly injuring himself.
May 11, 2024 in New York City. For
@gettyimages
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I'ma do the damn thing tonight
Please be advised, I will not be at soundcheck, not on your life
Just cut the mic on and kill the lights
Nikon flash — my face is the mask
Develop the photograph, but something just wasn't quite…
- billy woods
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If you off the pig, is you offin pigs or offerin figs?
Oh you big and bad? Blowin hay and sticks, huffin bricks
Clip the snout to spite the mouth, right the lips
Put it on the spit, pig roast! Who got jokes?
Fryers for the skin, cold swine shoulders get the smoke
- Quelle Chris
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See you in hell before I see you in jail
READ HER AREOLAE LIKE BRAILLE
- billy woods
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I actually took a three-hundred dollar Uber to a show
Asleep in the back like Future, might as well be a Maybach
Showed up with nothin' but a computer, LET'S GO
- billy woods
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I watch from as high as I can climb
The dog looks up and whines
The Hills Are Alive with landmines
I LIVE IN MY MIND
Not sure what I’m looking for
but I'll know when I find
My mother sent the gardener to look for me
but the sky is a great place to hide
- billy woods
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"Thank you to my first storyteller, my mother."
- billy woods
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Learn to fight
Write, then rewrite
When they say "revolution"
Don't believe the hype
- billy woods
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Never panic, walk patient
Pick up the shell casings
Leave microphone chalk tracings
RUN Ds MCs like Jam Master Jason
AND LIVE FOREVER IN
HEADPHONES & BASEMENTS
- billy woods
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Would you happen to have a photo of him?
HE WOULD NEVER ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED
- Dour Candy
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Sugar, Molasses, Rum
Sun-blasted bastard's son
Some laughed, some slumped
Aghast at what we'd done
- billy woods
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Ur mind the greatest weapon, but ur heart the biggest target
Marksman, I devour from the lands of time forgotten
Power Power Power on the minds of those without it
Cowards in high places refute this world is ours
Flowers from misguided recruits, the light rerouted
- E L U C I D
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"When you run a record label, every album you drop is the culmination of so much work, anticipation, and creative energy that its release into the world is both immensely gratifying and fraught."
- billy woods
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LIFE IS A ZIPLINE IN THE DARK
Spare me the Hallmark Karl Marx
I was in the Dollar Tree breakroom, playin' cards for quarters
Stop-loss posters on the wall, brick and mortar
I watched the planet from orbit, REMORSELESS
- billy woods
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Yo Chaz, peep how they throw rocks
Then look for something to do with they hands
In the interest of transparency, my house is glass
Scavenged from hood Chinese spots
With a slot for you to slide the cash
- billy woods (BLK LBL - Fulgurite)
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Caught feelings off an old picture
Hit her up, like: I STILL MISS YA
Two words: N**** PLEASE
Fair enough...
- billy woods
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Grenades attached to rockets and eager to tell you the names of they prophets
Rappers running outta gas halfway through they second project
- billy woods
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In the morning, the maid brings coffee from the kitchen
Some nights, strange music plays, I lay in bed and listen
- billy woods
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White kid it didn't fit, gave it as a gift
Prophet or Thug? Donned with a Fonzie shrug
Ya dig? In the desert, holes dug
Cosby sweater, Pac leathers, Suge gloves
- billy woods
(Known Unknowns - TUPAC JACKETS)
@Curly_Castro
@RyanGilda422
Saw the aforementioned "white kid [who] gave it as gift" on the streets a few months back. He was a teenager in my old building back then. Now he was homeless, doing a stint in a shelter a block from where I stay now.
live long enough you gon' see it all
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Heart-to-heart with old friend, like
We’ve gotta start hanging out again
Just look how quickly it all ends...
- billy woods
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Lifted the Devil's diary
Eloquent, no false piety
PILES OF RAW IVORY
Pius V watching the priory
The dead arm never tires, B
Not entirely
- billy woods
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When they look back in History, make sure I'm Absolved
Don't try to rewrite the past, it's oral history where I'm involved
- billy woods
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It's been here all along!
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Sampled the instrumental and cooked more bassline
Did the impossible–spoke to woods on FaceTime
Home plate in my field of vision. Fuck a “wait” sign
Rushmore? What? Dog, they ain’t even waist-high
-
@defcee
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"Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, could you gather 'round please. Please, hurry up. Thank you. Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm sorry to disturb your dancing and your enjoyment. But the reason for calling you in this evening is..."
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I'm from where erry car foreign
and we drive em on empty (ZIMBABWE)
- billy woods
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Fuck the troops, and sorry if that applies to someone near you
but the day you start following orders is the day you become a tool
Fool, court jester, I’m not a professor, and this is more of an anecdote than a lecture
but walk with Caesar and you gon’ get burned
- billy woods
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Everybody gets a lifetime
Nothing less, nothing more
So before u step, be sure
and know there's always a time for war
But u can never really even the score
or see what's behind that door
When I'm gone, just pour a little on the floor
- billy woods
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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." -James Baldwin
"There's nothing that has been more impactful and valuable in my life, it wouldn't even be close. On all sorts of levels." -woods, on the value of reading
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I was impressed how they boiled it down to a gif
I was shipwrecked but had enough for a spliff
I was depressed watching old men bicker over musty old beef from '96, dusty old bricks
Two hundred and forty-somethin' months and to think: you ain't learn shit
- billy woods
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My shell mechanical
People paralyzed by the lies they tell theyself to make it manageable
I know the count right, but I recount on sleepless nights because it's tangible
Any day could be the day they frogmarch you in manacles
- billy woods
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Death Grips in the Champagne Room
My house of mirrors got two mortgages
You gotta play something and risk something to be forfeited
"You stand right there" like teenagers in an orphanage
- billy woods (BLK LBL - Fulgurite)
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I wrote my first real rhyme in a laundromat in Kennebunk, Maine in '97. I was there with Alexander Richter...I remember it has something about Fidel Castro in it so I guess I've been working the same gimmick for a cool 20 years now. [Richter] said it wasn't very good.
- woods
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“Man, I think woods raises the bar for everyone who participates in this craft of rap music-making. He’s fearless, uncompromising, and doesn’t adhere to the trends of underground or mainstream hip-hop. His writing, content, and style is undeniable.”
- E L U C I D
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Social worker said, "Close your eyes. Tell me where u see urself in 5, then write it down...Come on guys, it's just a thought exercise"
She walked down the row, she had thick thighs. Big hips, ass kinda flat, but that's fine. Covered my answer 'cause fuck these other muh— FUCK EM
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Life come at you quick... Sip
A tall glass of female ejaculate
I'm different from the rest
JUST SAY HE THE BEST
- billy woods
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Over time, symbols eclipse the things they symbolize
I sympathize, but read the contract before you sign, son
- billy woods
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I'ma do the damn thing tonight
Please be advised, I will not be at soundcheck, not on your life
Just cut the mic on and kill the lights
Nikon flash—my face is the mask
Develop the photograph, but something just wasn't quite… (that's weird, can't see it)
- billy woods
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Sometimes I dont tell anyone I'm back around
Just lay low, crack a fresh pound
The cat miss me the most, purring loud on my lap
Tranquilo, fragrant smoke lazy in the air
Fingers steepled, wonderin if I really need all this stuff I got in here
-billy woods
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