or Tyler, the Creator's Call Me When You Get Lost - a dynamic, audience-forward follow-up to an ambitious concept record that maintains the established level of technical excellence. Maps is his clearest, most engaging music.
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Having been a pro rapper since 2002, he is ready to dispense all the wisdom he has picked up along the way, in language more listeners can decipher. To that end: woods seems to have reached an important threshold. Movement and displacement are recurring themes in the rapper's music, but his searching verses make clear he is actively observing and learning.
But woods also understands that moving forward on the path you're on is paramount. Wandering inspires such considerations, about routes pursued and ignored, alternate journeys that manifest different versions of ourselves living different lives, even if the other you is simply eating a bagel with cream cheese every day.
Later, he evokes another great writer, Cormac McCarthy, and the idea of paths chosen - questioning "a reality other than the reality that is," and if such a reality existing even matters. "Overall, there was good and bad everywhere I've ever been." This is how he appraises every space he enters, and the way he writes: with clear, open eyes. I would spend my Christmases in New York and I would dream about eating a bagel with cream cheese for the rest of the year, or like a slice of pepperoni pizza," he told No Bells in 2018. "There was not a lot of interpersonal violence, but there was state violence. When he considers his years spent living in Zimbabwe as a kid, in the wake of revolution, woods had no trouble seeing his father's birthplace as a second home, even as he felt and witnessed ostracism and craved American creature comforts. For woods, every fleeting experience, every in-between place, has something to offer. Not just the idle time spent between one place and another, though that is accounted for it is also the itinerant lessons learned touring, the wayfaring around a foreign place seeking something, the things the road reveals about home and the things you discover about yourself in unfamiliar territory. His excellent new album with Kenny Segal, Maps, wrings insights out of transitory moments. Across two decades worth of wonky, wordy music, wandering has informed much of the rapper's best writing. When Tolkien said not all those who wander are lost, he was talking specifically about billy woods. On Maps, an album-length collaboration with the producer Kenny Segal, rapper billy woods (in the photo above obscuring his face, as is his custom) offers the collected wisdom of two decades worth of journeys.
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