Drenochrome
ever since hiding places I wanted to hear more Kenny Segal and Billy woods. I never though it would happen and yet... here we are, now do I think this tops hiding places? no I do not but do I think this is a fantastic album with some really great moments? absolutely, having Billy on the same song as Aesop Rock + another on with Danny Brown, its something I did not expect but man am I happy it happened. overall this project is pretty good just not as good as the last.
Favorite track: Babylon by Bus featuring ShrapKnel.
Daniel Welsch
Die 17 wild zwischen Genres und Stimmungen wechselnden Instrumentals von Kenny Segal spiegeln das auf „Maps“ beschriebene Leben: vom Flugzeug in eine unbekannte Stadt gespuckt, verbringt Woods seine Tage im Jetlag- und Gras-Nebel, geplagt von brodelnder Anspannung und Paranoia oder von Heimweh.
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Limited Edition Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
The Maps cassette is a clever flip of the airline motif of Maps by Ashes57; it includes an orange shell with white imprint and a beautiful 8-panel fold-out J-card. Purchase of cassette from Backwoodz includes digital download.
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Limited Edition Compact Disc
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD includes a 36 page lyric booklet with artwork my m. musgrove. Purchase of CD from Backwoodz includes digital download.
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Standard Edition Orange 12" Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Buckle up, it's going to be a wild ride! Ashes57 did a great job on the Maps artwork, especially the main vinyl version which includes 140g translucent orange crush vinyl and an insert styled after an airline safety card,, as woods & Segal want you to be prepared for what could come your way. Purchase from Backwoodz includes digital download.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Maps
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Maps is the new album from NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, their first full collaboration since 2019’s Hiding Places. Four years after that landmark record, the duo have reunited with a vengeance. Maps is a story of the road, or roads, taken and untaken; of living the dream and dreaming of another life. It is an album about trying to find your way home, after making your home wherever you lay your head.
“Kenny and I made more songs together before Hiding Places than we did after,” woods says. “I think we only collaborated once over the last four years and although we didn’t talk about it, I think we wanted to let that energy build again. Neither of us wanted to make Hiding Places 2. We needed to go on other journeys, artistic and otherwise, to come back and do something fresh.”
Produced in full by Kenny Segal, Maps features Danny Brown, ELUCID (Armand Hammer), Shabaka Hutchins, Sam Herring (Future Islands), Quelle Chris, Aesop Rock, Benjamin Booker, and ShrapKnel. Segal moves effortlessly through styles but everything is underpinned with deep basslines and mean drums laid down like railroad tracks. Weaving between poignant memoir, deadpan humor, and incandescent bursts of surrealism, Maps cements both artists’ place amongst the best of their time.
credits
released May 5, 2023
All songs written by billy woods except where noted
Produced and mixed by Kenny Segal
Engineered by Kenny Segal, Steel Tipped Dove
Additional engineering by Aesop Rock
Mastered by Willie Green @ The Greenhouse
Aaron Carmack - rhodes on 3,17
Aaron Shaw - tenor sax on 12
Jason Wool - piano on 11, rhodes on 16
Joanne - additional vocals on 15
Mike Parvizi - bass on 17
Ryan Crosby - guitar on 17
Shabaka Hutchings - flute on 10
Art Direction by billy woods
Illustrations by ashes57
Graphic Design by ashes57
Thanks to ELUCID, Mo Niklz, J. Corso, KK, Manami, Jeilah, J. Markey, Patric, Injury Reserve, Brooke, Alchemist, Joanne, Conor & Lauren, M. Crook, Dave @ DailyOp, Domenico, BoyQ, Akkee, Rich Jones, Anton, Yungmorpheus, and most memorably, Levi Neal.
billy woods is a rapper who defies easy categorization; he was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Africa
and the West Indies. On the mic, woods is no less of a conundrum, possessed of versatile flows and an ability to not only tackle topics other artists wouldn’t dream of, but also to bring unique perspectives to the familiar ones....more
This was the first album that made me discover JPEG & Danny. And holy fuck they both dominated this project. Still one of my favorite album from those two, an album i’ve never heard before. Lean Beef Patty just instantly blows you away and i love it. Thank you guys for scaring the hoes ❤️ CodeVeronica
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I know I'm a bit late to the game, but I discovered this project earlier this year in January. I was a bit hesitant to check it out at first, due to the album cover picture, title, and bizarre band name. But I'm really glad I did. There isn't a dull moment on this whole thing, and there's something to chew on in each lyric spat. I don't regret checking these guys out. They've opened my mind up to a whole new world of art, music, and Hip-Hop that I was only somewhat aware of existed previously iativos