Born in Washington, DC, Billy Woods (stylized as billy woods) is a rapper b… Read Full Bio ↴Born in Washington, DC, Billy Woods (stylized as billy woods) is a rapper based out of New York City. He has also lived in Zimbabwe, Jamaica, and Maryland. Billy Woods is a member of the Super Chron Flight Brothers with Priviledge, Armand Hammer with Elucid, and The Reavers supergroup.
His mother was an English literature professor from Jamaica. His father was a Ph.D. Marxist writer, active in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation and then a member of the government in Zimbabwe. In 1980, the family moved to Zimbabwe. After the death of Woods' father, they returned to the United States in 1989. Woods briefly attended Howard University before getting involved in New York City's hip-hop scene. He started making music in the late 1990s. He wrote his "first real rhyme" at a laundromat in Kennebunk, Maine in 1997.
Billy Woods released his debut solo album, Camouflage, on his record label Backwoodz Studioz in 2003. In 2012, he released History Will Absolve Me. In 2013, he released Dour Candy, which was entirely produced by Blockhead. In 2017, he released Known Unknowns. It was included on Rolling Stone's "15 Great Albums You Probably Didn't Hear in 2017" list. In 2019, he released a collaborative album with producer Kenny Segal, titled Hiding Places, and a solo album, Terror Management. 2020 brought Brass, a collaborative album with Moor Mother. Woods released Aethiopes and Church in 2022. On May 5th 2023 Woods released Maps , second collaborative album with producer Kenny Segal.
His mother was an English literature professor from Jamaica. His father was a Ph.D. Marxist writer, active in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation and then a member of the government in Zimbabwe. In 1980, the family moved to Zimbabwe. After the death of Woods' father, they returned to the United States in 1989. Woods briefly attended Howard University before getting involved in New York City's hip-hop scene. He started making music in the late 1990s. He wrote his "first real rhyme" at a laundromat in Kennebunk, Maine in 1997.
Billy Woods released his debut solo album, Camouflage, on his record label Backwoodz Studioz in 2003. In 2012, he released History Will Absolve Me. In 2013, he released Dour Candy, which was entirely produced by Blockhead. In 2017, he released Known Unknowns. It was included on Rolling Stone's "15 Great Albums You Probably Didn't Hear in 2017" list. In 2019, he released a collaborative album with producer Kenny Segal, titled Hiding Places, and a solo album, Terror Management. 2020 brought Brass, a collaborative album with Moor Mother. Woods released Aethiopes and Church in 2022. On May 5th 2023 Woods released Maps , second collaborative album with producer Kenny Segal.
Freedman's Bureau
Billy Woods Lyrics
25K starting pay, play the game
Make a name for yourself
Put the blame on someone else
Oh he reached to resist
Empty clips and spent shells
Just how many, in defense it's all blurred
Allegations waiting, where's the autopsy
Toxicology lab and they knocking
If it was one of your own I bet
They'd have the city sewn the fuck up
Muscle down the weakest link
You can't stop the bumrush
Tactics of a lesser god
Feed the beast, scan your card
Carbs in charge, quota time, numbers talk
Jeers and taunts, fuck 'em all
Damage control, procedures right out the book
Be honest for once, man
You shoot cause you shook
Death squads answer to
Who? Furtive movements
Make 'em nervous men
They grabbing their tool
Bet that's murder, bloody murder
Which weasel you finna hide behind?
State-appointed pervert
The story it's all designed
Vulture time, crooked dicks, and deep pockets
Lifetime desk job offers with full coverage
One hand wash the other, loyalty is a given
Who you calling a victim?
Stay away from twice-fried pork
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
They wanna know if you live what you say
But talk is cheap and I'm in
The dollar store erry day
I've half a mind to rob the place
Clean getaway to stalk streets with
A pocketful of bad pennies
Juvenile Techniques
Double Vinyl, paint train Lionel mind you
The last time shit went down
We couldn't find you
So, revolution? Color me skeptical
Like swine flew
Crackers still win when they lose, like Rocky
88, King Jaffe, 7th grade, Coming To America
Slightly out of touch
I wasn't black enough for the
Back of the cheese bus
Swiftly dumbed it down, started acting up
(you see where that got me)
They dark as Chris Tucker calling
Me a spear chucker
Kid, they really mindfucked ya
But make no mistake, I'm Quinn Buckner
Black on Black matter fact errybody in the
Hood Benjamin Button
It's just black don't crack
Erry corner Babylon strapped with gats
More plastic than Chinese export
And it's looking like we caught
Till he use the force
These are not the negroes you're looking for
Whether synth or beatbox
Heat rocks like pipe dreaming in detox
Now all I need is a
Tape fulla disposable cheap shots
To get the moniker buzzing like
Doors to 90s weed spots super Cat cousin
I'll play the fiddle while ya ghetto red hot
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Make a name for yourself
Put the blame on someone else
Oh he reached to resist
Empty clips and spent shells
Just how many, in defense it's all blurred
Allegations waiting, where's the autopsy
Toxicology lab and they knocking
If it was one of your own I bet
They'd have the city sewn the fuck up
You can't stop the bumrush
Tactics of a lesser god
Feed the beast, scan your card
Carbs in charge, quota time, numbers talk
Jeers and taunts, fuck 'em all
Damage control, procedures right out the book
Be honest for once, man
You shoot cause you shook
Death squads answer to
Who? Furtive movements
Make 'em nervous men
They grabbing their tool
Bet that's murder, bloody murder
Which weasel you finna hide behind?
State-appointed pervert
The story it's all designed
Vulture time, crooked dicks, and deep pockets
Lifetime desk job offers with full coverage
One hand wash the other, loyalty is a given
Who you calling a victim?
Stay away from twice-fried pork
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
They wanna know if you live what you say
But talk is cheap and I'm in
The dollar store erry day
I've half a mind to rob the place
Clean getaway to stalk streets with
A pocketful of bad pennies
Juvenile Techniques
Double Vinyl, paint train Lionel mind you
The last time shit went down
We couldn't find you
So, revolution? Color me skeptical
Like swine flew
Crackers still win when they lose, like Rocky
88, King Jaffe, 7th grade, Coming To America
Slightly out of touch
I wasn't black enough for the
Back of the cheese bus
Swiftly dumbed it down, started acting up
(you see where that got me)
They dark as Chris Tucker calling
Me a spear chucker
Kid, they really mindfucked ya
But make no mistake, I'm Quinn Buckner
Black on Black matter fact errybody in the
Hood Benjamin Button
It's just black don't crack
Erry corner Babylon strapped with gats
More plastic than Chinese export
And it's looking like we caught
Till he use the force
These are not the negroes you're looking for
Whether synth or beatbox
Heat rocks like pipe dreaming in detox
Now all I need is a
Tape fulla disposable cheap shots
To get the moniker buzzing like
Doors to 90s weed spots super Cat cousin
I'll play the fiddle while ya ghetto red hot
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
Everybody wanna be a nigga
Nobody wanna be a nigga furtive movements
Trigger blast they got a right to
Ain't no telling what he might do
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Carsten
So sick
Takeo Otori
dope
nawfjordan
Who watching this for there work
clrkkdd12
.... calling me a( spear chucka), ..... they really mind fcked ya. 👍