billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps

The world has finally got it. Billy Woods is the best MC the US underground has to offer at the moment. It’s amazing, considering the complexity of his lyrics. And it certainly took a long time. On »Aethiopes« he took us to the Zimbabwe of his childhood, on »Church« to the time of his youth, just before he became a rapper, and now on »Maps« he has arrived in the present – or not, because he is here on tour, spending time in airports or overpriced Ubers. In the droning fog of Kenny Segal’s beats, however, huge lights shine down on him: »Poisoned everything we touched, withered and died // Burn it down with us inside.«