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.

Maryland
Billy Woods Lyrics

Remember how we used to push the
Lawnmowers all around this neighborhood
Man? Just to get money
‘cause niggas didn't want a real job and shit
Soon as they gave us the money, We'd just
Go sit on our lawnmowers
Get some weed out and
Just smoke that shit, play ball all day
Man that was back in the day, man shit
And one time, my lawnmower just broke

We just left it in the woods and shit? Damn

Thanksgiving Day
Barry Sanders on the breakaway
Early on, I went to his house, he came
To mine, so we ate twice cornbread
Turkey, wings, peas
And rice we went in the shed
That night with four bottles of 800 Ice
I'm telling you: by midnight
We was crazy nice
Sharing the jack, my man gave me some advice
Like, "Everything comes with a price
And change the only guarantee in life one day
We might not be so tight" I was like
"Come on
Dude, always be me and you, " but, inside
I knew in some ways it was true he said
"Be careful what you do ‘cause
That's what you are
And every day you open your eyes is
The one to be thankful for
‘Cause everybody gets a lifetime, nothing
Less, nothing more, so before you step
Be sure and know there's always
A time for war
But you can never really even the score
Or see what's behind that door
When I'm gone
Just pour a little on the floor"

Maryland, you're my life

Yo, nigga always keeping wood
For you, nigga, always, ‘til we going to
Meet the man! Yo, you remember
That time I was running, We
Was both running from the cops and
Shit and hopped that fence
And I lost my backpack down
In that grass and shit, And I was scared to
Go back and shit ‘cause it had mad weed
In it, and you just went back
I was just waiting for you on the porch and
Shit like, "Yo
This nigga probably got arrested" You
Came back with the
Bag, and we just smoked the biggest
Fucking Philly you ever seen, Nigga

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