First time I heard “I woke up in the west coast for the first time in my life” I knew that was gonna be the one

So falling out the sky was basically an Earl and Alchemist song then armand hammer jumped on it

At least that's what I'm grasping from the GQ interview

Hol up where’s @Zulaw

Seems like it I wouldn’t have expected AH to pick that kind of beat, but it actually really makes sense

Also your avi reminds me, I just listened to Lil Big Man, loved it

I needa run this back again 🔥🙏

Where you would place Terror Management? It's rated pretty low if compared to his other projects

That beat was 🧱🔥

Need a good week with this. brb

In the minority, but I love vintage billy

1) History Will Absolve Me
2) Camouflage
3) The Chalice
4) Dour Candy
5) Today, I Wrote Nothing
6) Hiding Places
7) Terror Management
8) Known Unknowns

Does this still hold up, @voyce

Nah fr

Hiding Places
Today I Wrote Nothing
Dour
Terror
History
Unknowns

Yeah I really wanted tl hear your take on it, cause you are very good at dissecting this type of stuff

Need a good year with Elucid's discog. brb

man's gonna take a hiatus to decode it all

Anybody know the Falling Out The Sky sample?

My third favourite of his solo albums. Although it took me a healthy amount of sitting with it to get to that point. Now I see as a more refined take on the vignette heavy approach of Today I Wrote Nothing.

Yeah nah I dont think its a diss or anything at all. Just a delve into prostitution.

@marcusg Yo just wanted thank you for putting me on to this. great project!

I got into Billy with TIWN and it really grew on me after the first few listens once I got his style.

Turns out it was actually one of worst projects IMO

Terror Management is at the bottom for me but the man has no bad albums. You can always walk away with more than a few great songs.

Yall got Known Unknowns a little too low for my taste tho

I dont get it at all. I feel incredibly dumb tbh

Don't. Some artists take time to comprehend. For me, I still think Elucid, Akai Solo, and Yasiin Bey (not Mos Def) are the most cryptic emcees out

Nah it takes time. And ELUCID's tweet clarifying that lyric was only when it started to click for me.

So the verse is ELUCID with a vignette about s***work in an impoverished environment, told from the perspective of this client. When you listen to it with that in mind it all pieces together.

'I got bail money trick, is it snow, is it hail?' is a clever line. He's got bail money to pay for a trick (prostitute), and the snow/hail referring to coke and crack, as well as just the weather.

'I'd probably given you a beat, but I think you steal' is another clever line. Double meaning again but the main one being that he would have gone for this prostitute but he doesn't trust her.

And at the end he's saying how entrenched this is, they're working out the same building this guy is living in.