Billy Woods

History Will Absolve Me

Some tracks on this are pretty dead instrumentally but the rapping is consistently great. Great themes and a pretty damn good album overall.

Ever since discovering the project Armand Hammer through their album Paraffin and the solo project with Kenny Segal from this year Hiding Places, Billy Woods has slowly become one of the modern MCs that I have been the most impressed with. His hard hitting style meshes well with underground and abstract beats, which traditionally are a style of hip hop that works wonders on me. However, I have never gone back to see what some of his earlier work sounds like. Therefore, here we are.

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Original listening date: May 12, 2022

Billy Woods' History Will Absolve Me is definitely not what I expected from a Billy Woods record, after listening to the collaborative album with Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram, I decided to start listening to more projects by Billy Woods, History Will Absolve Me is definitely a great abstract hip-hop album and has some of the most agreesive, explosive and punchy rapping and production, I've heard on a Billy Woods project, before listening to this ... read more

this aint boring i take it back
but some parts are kinda soulless