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Aethiopes (Album) by Billy Woods

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Born In Washington DC Billy Woods Stylized As Billy Woods Is A Rapper Based Out Of New York City. He Has Also Lived In Zimbabwe Jamaica And Maryland. Billy Woods Is A Member Of The Super Chron Flight Brothers With Priviledge Armand Hammer With Elucid And The Reavers Supergroup. His Mother Was An English Literature Professor From Jamaica. His Father Was A Ph.D. Marxist Writer Active In The Zimbabwe War Of Liberation And Then A Member Of The Government In Zimbabwe. In 1980 The Family Moved To Zimbabwe. After The Death Of Woods' Father They Returned To The United States In 1989. Woods Briefly Attended Howard University Before Getting Involved In New York City's Hip-Hop Scene. He Started Making Music In The Late 1990s. He Wrote His "first Real Rhyme" At A Laundromat In Kennebunk Maine In 1997. Billy Woods Released His Debut Solo Album Camouflage On His Record Label Backwoodz Studioz In 2003. In 2012 He Released History Will Absolve Me. In 2013 He Released Dour Candy Which Was Entirely Produced By Blockhead. In 2017 He Released Known Unknowns. It Was Included On Rolling Stone's "15 Great Albums You Probably Didn't Hear In 2017" List. In 2019 He Released A Collaborative Album With Producer Kenny Segal Titled Hiding Places And A Solo Album Terror Management. 2020 Brought Brass A Collaborative Album With Moor Mother. Woods Released Aethiopes And Church In 2022. On May 5th 2023 Woods Released Maps Second Collaborative Album With Producer Kenny Segal.

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Aethiopes Is The Tenth Studio Album By The Prolific Brooklyn Rapper Billy Woods. It Sees Him Collaborating With Producer Preservation Both Of Whom Previously Teamed Up On Woods' Terror Management And Also On Preservation’s Own Eastern Medicine Western Illness. The Album Was Released On April 8 2022 Through Backwoodz Studioz. In An Interview With FADER Billy Stated That This Is His Largest And Most Broad Album Conceptually. This Is Reflected In The Album’s Title “aethiopes ” A Word With An Uncertain Definition. Historically The Word Referred To Dark-Skinned People Living In Certain Areas Specifically The South Of The Sahara But Also Within The Upper Nile . However Modern Usage Typically Alludes To The Country Of Ethiopia. When Asked About The Concept Of The Album During An Interview With FADER Woods Said "Conceptually It Was One Of The Complex Ideas I’ve Ever Tried To Tackle On An Album. It’s A Lot Of Ideas Big And Small Of A Significant Depth. I Guess To Me There’s A Lot Going On About Blackness As An Idea Africa As An Idea Africa As A Reality. The Diaspora Looking At The Land And Vice Versa. And Obviously From The Cover To The Title Itself The Idea Of The Other. Thinking About The Real Ethiopia Which Comes Up More Than Once Both Sonically And In Words. Half Of My Family Is Jamaican And I Have Rastas In My Family Who Feel Like Haile Selassie Was God The Messiah. And Half Of My Family Is From Africa Although Nowhere Near Ethiopia. But Again You’re Talking About The Other And Ideas Of Blackness Which Don’t Necessarily Have To Line Up With The Reality Of It. It’s An Idea — Like Europeans Decided What Blackness Was." "Aethiopes" Is Billy Woods’ First Album Since 2019’s Double Feature Of Hiding Places And Terror Management. The Project Is Fully Produced By Preservation Dr Yen Lo Yasiin Bey Who Delivered A Suite Of Tracks On Terror Management Including The Riveting Single “Blood Thinner”. The Two Collaborated Again On Preservation’s 2020 LP Eastern Medicine Western Illness Which Featured A Memorable Billy Woods Appearance On The Song “Lemon Rinds” As Well As The B-Side “Snow Globe”. - Via Billy Woods' BandCamp

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