Video: billy woods "Duck Hunt"

Billy Woods's second album was the best hip-hop album of 2012 that nobody talked about. John talks about it. He thinks that makes him a badass. I had hoped to tackle an album...

I hadn't heard of Brooklyn based rapper Billy Woods until Aesop Rock bigged him up on Twitter recently. But I'm glad I've discovered him now. Woods released his latest album History Will Absolve Me last month and it's been getting some tub-thumping reviews. The album's superb, and has echoes of Nas and KRS-One  dotted across it - but ultimately it bends and twists the old school [...]

MP3 A new single from D.C. rapper Billy Woods. It comes from his latest album, History Will Absolve Me, which is out now on Backwoodz Studioz . History Will Absolve me is Woods' first solo release in eight years. It's an incredibly raw and personal record, pulling out some of Woods' dirtiest skeletons. "Blue Dreams" follows suit with that, but its emotions are fueled by a relationship that's fizzling out over petty emotions. It's one of many lyrical topics touched on with the 20-track album. Download the track above, and check [...]

• billy woods - billy_woods-Blue_Dream_Ft_LWren.mp3

billy woods is a DC-raised, NYC-based rapper who spent much of his childhood in Africa and the West Indies. After two accomplished solo albums ( Camouflage and The Chalice ), as well as releases with The Reavers and Super Chron Flight Brothers, woods is back in the solo clip with his latest album, History Will Absolve Me . MOKB is mighty pleased to premiere the clausterphobic gutcheck that is his newest single, Blue Dream . MP3 : Billy [...]

• Billy Woods - Blue Dream featuring L’Wren

New video from billy woods "Duck Hunt", off History Will Absolve Me . Director: Crosby iTunes: History Will Absolve Me (feat. Masai Bey, Roc Marciano, Elucid, L'Wren, Junclassic, Marq Spekt) - Billy Woods