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Earlier this spring, billy woods announced his latest album, History Will Absolve Me, with an April 10th release date. Since then, he's leaked a number of tracks, including the Roc Marciano- and Masai Bey-featured lead single "Body Of Work" and the most recently released non-album track "Frozen Sunlight," which features Open Mike Eagle and MarQ Spekt. Now, with April 10th finally upon us, woods is celebrating his album release with a video for the album's latest single, "Duck Hunt."
The song, produced by A.M. Breakups, is one of the eeriest on History Will Absolve Me, built around dark, bubbling synths, muted horns, and a steady drum break, which does well to compliment woods' fluid, complex flow, with bars like, "Black Robert Baden Powell, never caught without the ratchet/ Grass like Wimbeldon; wood racquet/ Rap like a simpleton, see new tax bracket/ So-called goons, turns out they schools was magnet." The video, directed by Crosby, fits the track's grimy, claustrophobic vibe, shot in cluttered rooms and decrepit hallways, red and blue tints serving to both outline and obscure.
Watch the video for "Duck Hunt" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4AwIlNVxyQ
Buy link for History Will Absolve Me: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/history-will-absolve-me-feat./id514690530
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The Background:
billy woods is a rapper who defies easy categorization; he claims Washington D.C. as his hometown but has spent much of his life in New York City. He was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Africa and the West Indies. Woods released two solo albums, Camoflauge and The Chalice, before working on collaborations as part of the super group The Reavers and as one half of the now defunct Super Chron Flight Brothers with rapper Priviledge. Determined to come back with a new sense of purpose and style, billy woods spent the last two years focused on his new album History Will Absolve Me, which was now available on iTunes.
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