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As far as my listening goes, 2023 has been a disappointing year for music so far. Only Black Country, New Road\u2019s Live at Bush Hall and Black Thought & El Michels Affair\u2019s Glorious Game have been powerful enough to me to inspire multiple listens. I did also like UGLY from slowthai and Ryuichi Sakamoto\u2019s final album, 12, but nothing has really gotten to me.<\/p>\n

No album had gripped me, wormed its way into my head. And so, when I saw that billy woods was promoting a new upcoming record, I started rubbing my hands together like your favourite cartoon villain when concocting their wicked plans. Fully produced by Kenny Segal, who worked with woods previously on their album Hiding Places (one of woods\u2019 best), Maps was bound to be good.<\/p>\n

And it is. But it\u2019s also surprising, and that surprise is certainly worth discussing.<\/p>\n

For context, billy woods\u2019 recent albums have been far from personal. woods is a decidedly private person\u200a\u2014\u200ahis face has never been seen other than at live shows (no pictures exist). His last two albums have been towering, too. Aethiopes (released April 2022) still baffles me\u200a\u2014\u200aa 36 minute album with some of the best production I\u2019ve ever heard which details the history of oppression. The lyrics are impossibly rich, with just the opening song talking about the asylum of socialist leader Mengistu Haile Mariam and sampling from an obscure Nigerian film, Kongi\u2019s Harvest. Church, released in the same year, is just as staggering conceptually and lyrically with harder to trace themes and ideas. But, importantly, both records focus more on political issues or ones concerning race, colonialism or similar topics rather than on woods\u2019 own life.<\/p>\n

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The cover for woods\u2019 previous album Aethiopes, released in 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This makes Maps a significant change of pace as woods gets personal. And he makes it clear that he\u2019s having something of a hard time. With its abstract, often manic production from Kenny Segal (which is seriously good, bringing cohesion to chaos whilst switching between hip-hop sub-genres effortlessly) serving woods\u2019 lyricism beautifully, Maps is an intimate documentation of woods\u2019 thoughts of alienation and anxiety in the midst of touring. He speaks of his child, he speaks of struggling to maintain a healthy relationship whilst touring with his child\u2019s mother (and his ex), he speaks of nihilism and giving up on trying to find solutions, he speaks of humanity being past saving, on cheap travel, on his position as a black celebrity\/artist, on dissociation. I can keep going, but there\u2019s no need to spoil everything that the record has to offer.<\/p>\n

Woods\u2019 lyricism across the entire project is just perfect. He remains massively inspiring. There are so many beautiful or deeply dark lines worth pointing out, so, here are a handful of them:<\/p>\n

\u2018Maybe suicidal thoughts was the struggle,
\nFor a brief sweet moment,
\nThere was nothing in the thought bubble.\u2019
\n\/\/
\n\u2018People don\u2019t want the truth,
\nthey want me to tell them\u2028Grandma went to Heaven\u2019
\n\/\/
\n\u2018My taxes pay police brutality settlements\u2019
\n\/\/
\n\u2018I don\u2019t go to sleep, I tread water \u2019til I sink\u2019
\n\/\/
\n\u2018I say I\u2019m at peace, but it\u2019s still that same dread,
\nIt\u2019s a funny feeling, like knowing your enemies is in the feds,
\nIt\u2019s hard to live when before you was dead.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting again that even when going back through the album to find these lines, I found two full verses I wanted to put down. I\u2019ll put those closer to the bottom, but just let those lines sit. Each and every one of them is so good\u200a\u2014\u200aa mix of intelligence and emotional expression that is so striking.<\/p>\n

\"billy<\/a>

billy woods photographed for The Wire by Jamil McGinnis.<\/p><\/div>\n

The production, thankfully, more than backs up woods\u2019 work. As do the carefully chosen features. Kenny Segal\u2019s work here isn\u2019t catchy in the way that some of the beats from Hiding Places are, but that clearly isn\u2019t the intention. The album is a reflection of a pretty chaotic space of mind, the chaos of touring, always on the move, cheap hotels and Easyjet flight delays\u200a\u2014\u200athe music reflects this. What stands out is the interlude in the middle of the record of jazz instrumentals, or the low foghorn-type sound that crops up a couple of times on Hangman. For an album to be able to move from jazz instrumentals all the way to industrial hip-hop sounds (as on Babylon by Bus, those drums are incredibly punchy) speaks volumes about the ability of Segal as a producer.<\/p>\n

The features across the board are great, too. Appearances from Danny Brown, Quelle Chris, Sam Herring, Elucid and more ground the album further, though part of me does wish that woods stuck entirely to his focus on his own experiences for the record. The features add beautifully to the music, and fit the tracks that they appear on (Brown\u2019s feature on Year Zero is bound to be a future classic verse, it\u2019s so disjointed and bizarre in its flow but has multiple extremely funny punchlines) but at the same time woods\u2019 position as the focus of the album is temporarily disrupted. Again, I do enjoy the features in and of themselves and I think they compliment the songs they\u2019re on, but the album thematically suffers *slightly* because of them.
\nI\u2019m still floored by Maps, even a while after first listening. Replays continue to be more rewarding as more information and more references become clear, the themes continue to build, etc. Others have covered this album very well – I particularly enjoyed Professor Skye\u2019s YouTube review\/analysis of the record. His channel is fantastic across the board\u200a\u2014\u200aan academic approach to hip-hop with seriously detailed reviews. Skye goes into far better detail than I think I ever could.<\/p>\n

\"Kenny<\/a>

Kenny Segal and billy woods, photographed by Alexander Richter.<\/p><\/div>\n

And finally, I\u2019ll leave you with my current favourite few lines (which change consistently, but right now, I can\u2019t get over these few) and then the last lines of the album\u200a\u2014\u200aboth feel like light jabs to the heart. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n

\u2018Play stupid games, you flyin\u2019 Easyjet,
\nBratislava, Utrecht,
\nSomething felt off before I even left
\nSo when I saw the missed calls, I knew what was next
\nDidn\u2019t have to open the text
\nStupid prizes, couple\u2019s therapy on Zoom
\nIt\u2019s a train wreck.\u2019
\n\/\/
\n\u2018I\u2019m in the park with the baby on the swing
\nWhen it hits me crazy, anything at all could happen to him
\nHe been climbing higher and higher on the jungle gym
\nRunning faster, sometimes pushing other kids
\nTear-streaked apologies, balled fists, it\u2019s a trip
\nThat this is something we did
\nI kiss her on the lips
\nI watch him grow, wondering how long I got to live\u2019<\/p>\n

Some of the most flooring final lines to any rap album I\u2019ve heard, ever. Maybe to any album I\u2019ve heard generally!<\/p>\n

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