Billy Woods - Golliwog (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Billy Woods - Golliwog (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Photo: Natalia Vacheishvili ‘Golliwog’ is a bruising and impactful body of work that takes after the best horror films, trudging through the forest no matter how creepy it may get. The central theme on Billy Woods’ eighth solo album is discomfort — the New York rapper is an expert in weaving lyrical tapestries and here, the threads are all blacks, greys, browns and reds. It’s an ugly, uncompromising affair, a festering wound that becomes more an…

Looking for An Honest Man: A Conversation With billy woods

Photo by Natalia Vacheishvili Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Ock Sportello knows every word to “Choppa Style.” Abu Zubaydah awoke from a coma in a pool of his own blood. Zubaydah, who had been shot multiple…

billy woods: Golliwog - Spectrum Culture

We live in a world of unrelenting horror. The promise of social media was that we would be able to be so tightly connected to each other that we would see all the wondrous, funny, compassionate things we all did to and with each other. The slyly curled monkey’s paw outcome was that we’d also see all the other things we did. We’re inventive. We’re always thinking of novel, terrifying things to do to each other. It’s in our faces constantly, a diz…