billy woods

It’s all about revolution, in every sense: the liberation of the mind and the liberation of society, Karl Marx and James Baldwin resonate in the lyrics of this fantastic rapper as loud and insisting as Deleuze and Guattari’s “Anti-Oedipus.” And not to forget the superhero mutants of the X-Men comics. The traditions, references, and universes that billy woods mixes and rhizomatically intertwines in his tracks are so rich your head would spin – if it wasn’t for the clarity and incisiveness of his own head and language, and if the hazy beats he raps to weren’t so relaxed and (see above) mind-expanding.