Woods, Billy & Kenny Segal: Maps (CD)

Backwoodz is proud to announce a limited reissue of billy woods & Kenny Segal's 2023 masterpiece Maps; replete with new artwork (photos by Alexander Richter).

Maps was the second collaboration between NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, a follow-up to 2019's modern classic Hiding Places. Maps is a story of the road, or roads, taken and untaken; of living the dream and dreaming of another life. It's an album about trying to find your way home, after making your home wherever you laid your head.

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 memoirs, deadpan humour, and incandescent bursts of surrealism, Maps cements both artists’ place amongst the best of their time.

1. Kenwood Speakers
2. Soft Landing
3. Soundcheck featuring Quelle Chris
4. Rapper Weed
5. Blue Smoke
6. Bad Dreams Are Only Dreams
7. Babylon by Bus featuring ShrapKnel
8. Year Zero featuring Danny Brown
9. Hangman
10. Baby Steps featuring ELUCID & Benjamin Booker
11. The Layover
12. FaceTime featuring Sam Herring
13. Agriculture
14. Houdini
15. Waiting Around featuring Aesop Rock
16. NYC Tapwater
17. As The Crow Flies featuring ELUCID