With a bed of stellar production and several releases under his belt as one half of the Super Chron Flight Brothers, elusive D.C. MC Billy Woods returns to making solo material with History Will Absolve Me.
Combining his knack for knowing which beats he sounds good on and which guests sound great with him, History Will Absolve Me is a perfect storm of underground hip-hop and a one-of-a-kind listening experience that will be the new standard for alternative East Coast indie excellence.
billy woods makes bangers that you could never play at the function (they'd kick you out on the spot)
I enjoy Billy's writing on this, whether he's discussing the death of his peers or the Lebowski urban achievers. Probably would've liked this more if you showed me in 2012-14, but after hearing half a dozen projects like it I just think it's pretty damn good instead of great or making my ears cum.
Some tracks on this are pretty dead instrumentally but the rapping is consistently great. Great themes and a pretty damn good album overall.
This is a wildly different sound than billy woods' more recent output, from the production, to the tone, to the delivery. Despite having nearly 20 songs, and being over an hour in length, at no point was this album ever dull, at no point did any of the songs on here feel like they overstayed their welcome, which is an indication of the quality on this album. This album still retains much of billy woods' almost spoken word style of rapping that he would develop in later albums, but has a way of ... read more
1 | A Mis Enemigos (High Tide) 3:03 | 85 |
2 | Crocodile Tears 3:33 | 94 |
3 | The Man Who Would Be King 3:36 | 91 |
4 | Ca$h 4 Gold 3:15 | 80 |
5 | Body of Work 4:31 feat. Masai Bey, Roc Marciano | 88 |
6 | The Foreigner 3:39 | 86 |
7 | Bill Cosby 1:49 | 82 |
8 | Freedman's Bureau 3:58 feat. E L U C I D | 80 |
9 | Headband 5:14 | 85 |
10 | Blue Dream 3:41 feat. L'wren | 88 |
11 | DMCA 2:53 | 87 |
12 | Pompeii 4:22 | 91 |
13 | Duck Hunt 4:03 | 87 |
14 | Nigerian Email 3:36 | 80 |
15 | Pump up the Volume 3:12 feat. L'wren | 80 |
16 | Famous Last Words 4:30 feat. Junclassic, MarQ Spekt | 85 |
17 | Sour Grapes 3:52 feat. E L U C I D | 84 |
18 | Human Resources 3:34 | 86 |
19 | The Wake 3:04 | 90 |
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