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.
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Billy Woods Lyrics
Stanley Crouch
Run 'em out of town, Ray Handley
Armchair quarterback scored on the couch
Slouched off sour dumb out Dexter Manley
Took the words out my mouth purple diesel
Cotton candy burning Down The House
New Wave max B acapellas over shoegaze
Well played, all I can say is touche
Blue Dream, Yellowcake, Black Haze
Pen game equivalent to Thomas Paine
Pen name the ambivalent Mark Twain
Intelligent Gucci Mane scholarship student
Financial aid reduction made 35
The ideal unit
Face disguised, '72 Olympics in Munich
Baader Meinhof Complex, she likes it rough
Slightly abusive
But taken in context, you playing the tune
She's behind the music records is Ruthless
Dave Checketts, I left MSG toothless
Told the croupier, check it, I ain't stupid
Universal Music Group waitin' on
Wayne to go acoustic
Kids meals, yalls chairs is boosted
Fuck a flip, I told my whiteboy, just loop it
Application folded take position and hold it
Dig a hole when the ground's at it coldest
100 dead Bolsheviks in a pit, froze stiff
Glaciers of ice, alaskan
Fish, deadliest catch
Type to stowaway on slave ships
Crustaceans in Barrels negroes in a slum
The cattle get funnelled to the
Barrel of a gun
Did his time like Papillon, came
Out squinting at the sun, Winking at the nun
Life like a remake of The Harder They Come
I want mine here, now, tonight!
Corner the market, name your price
He's ripping me off but the shit is flight
Workers of the World unite for
That extra vacation day, 6% pay hike
Don't bother to ask, you know he hatin'
Eating bacon in the middle
Of The Great Satan, Piously pagan
Memory loss, call me Reagan
I'll call you Al
Free enterprise is why we standing here
I don't need another pal
Tryin' to get me up in the hoosegow
Off that such and such hR pufnstuf
Familiar voice in your head telling
You to just give up charged off that Cali
Marion Butts
Useless aggression like a cruise missile
Hitting a mud hut
Villagers stuck, between that proverbial
If they ain't kill you
Then this side'll prolly murder you
Run 'em out of town, Ray Handley
Armchair quarterback scored on the couch
Slouched off sour dumb out Dexter Manley
Took the words out my mouth purple diesel
Cotton candy burning Down The House
New Wave max B acapellas over shoegaze
Well played, all I can say is touche
Blue Dream, Yellowcake, Black Haze
Pen game equivalent to Thomas Paine
Intelligent Gucci Mane scholarship student
Financial aid reduction made 35
The ideal unit
Face disguised, '72 Olympics in Munich
Baader Meinhof Complex, she likes it rough
Slightly abusive
But taken in context, you playing the tune
She's behind the music records is Ruthless
Dave Checketts, I left MSG toothless
Told the croupier, check it, I ain't stupid
Universal Music Group waitin' on
Wayne to go acoustic
Kids meals, yalls chairs is boosted
Fuck a flip, I told my whiteboy, just loop it
Application folded take position and hold it
Dig a hole when the ground's at it coldest
100 dead Bolsheviks in a pit, froze stiff
Glaciers of ice, alaskan
Fish, deadliest catch
Type to stowaway on slave ships
Crustaceans in Barrels negroes in a slum
The cattle get funnelled to the
Barrel of a gun
Did his time like Papillon, came
Out squinting at the sun, Winking at the nun
Life like a remake of The Harder They Come
I want mine here, now, tonight!
Corner the market, name your price
He's ripping me off but the shit is flight
Workers of the World unite for
That extra vacation day, 6% pay hike
Don't bother to ask, you know he hatin'
Eating bacon in the middle
Of The Great Satan, Piously pagan
Memory loss, call me Reagan
I'll call you Al
Free enterprise is why we standing here
I don't need another pal
Tryin' to get me up in the hoosegow
Off that such and such hR pufnstuf
Familiar voice in your head telling
You to just give up charged off that Cali
Marion Butts
Useless aggression like a cruise missile
Hitting a mud hut
Villagers stuck, between that proverbial
If they ain't kill you
Then this side'll prolly murder you
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@BobBob-cy9cu
Damn this ain’t on Spotify and no one even knows
@Boomi_Dog
There’s tons of woods music from the 2000s that isn’t on streaming
@user-vl4iq7bj5e
@@Boomi_Dog this from 2010s
@jeanfrancoisnelson
I just found out
@dillenpeace5602
just got here what else am i missing out on
@ExisCrisis
It's most likely because of the Led Zeppelin sample not being cleared (and it's barely a sample even as it takes so much of the original song). Even back when the album came out I thought there was no say they cleared it because Led Zeppelin samples do not come cheap. Also in line with what Billy raps on DMCA:
Nothing wrong with owning slaves
So fuck a sample, I don't got to pay
When I take your shit that's the American Way
@unhelpfulrevelations7989
Loved this album for years never heard this, wow great song
@kennethchavez5886
Why this shit on everything I've been listen to. Thanks this is why I stay under the radar to find sanity in waves.
@Boomi_Dog
?
@anthonybucci2775
@@Boomi_Dog This man tweaked