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.
Tracklist
1.Kenwood Speakers 01:21
2.Soft Landing 02:53
3.Soundcheck featuring Quelle Chris 02:56
4.Rapper Weed 03:14
5.Blue Smoke 01:32
6.Bad Dreams Are Only Dreams 01:09
7.Babylon by Bus featuring ShrapKnel 02:08
8.Year Zero featuring Danny Brown 03:40
9.Hangman 02:55
10.Baby Steps featuring ELUCID & Benjamin Booker 03:25
11.The Layover 02:50
12.FaceTime featuring Sam Herring 03:32
13.Agriculture 01:40
14.Houdini 02:24
15.Waiting Around featuring Aesop Rock 03:01
16.NYC Tapwater 03:08
17.As The Crow Flies featuring ELUCID
Danny Brown
