Apr 6, 2021·editedwoods’ s***-talking >>>
“Westworld nxggas re-re-booting, recycling the same shootin
Rappers tired, inertia the only thing keep em movin
Glassy-eyed in the stu, that street date loomin”“Ya whole tape is a forty degree day, PB&J
Elbows ashy claiming you slang weight”“Ya intro’s too long, you ain’t Ghost and Rae
Charly Wingate in jail, you can’t just up and ride that wave
It’s like nxggas skipped track 9 on the purple tape
Chris like, ‘woods, you overlookin the fact they got beats for days’
I had to concede, the beats was indeed flames
Which only made it more of a shame”
Apr 7, 2021·1 reply
Brooklyn-based producer & engineer, Paul Womack dives deep into his mix techniques of Billy Woods' track, "Stranger in the Village."
Apr 7, 2021Didn't even want to play the entire album this early but it just happened.
These 3 dropped a classic
Apr 7, 2021that Roaches Don't Fly verse still fire as f***
- Apr 7, 2021!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_zj7dyn9Qsabbatical_
Brooklyn-based producer & engineer, Paul Womack dives deep into his mix techniques of Billy Woods' track, "Stranger in the Village."
- Apr 7, 2021·1 reply
DwindlingSunThis didn't really do much to sway me towards the wronged lover a***ysis. When you interpret it that way, there are lines that simply don't make sense. Which I think this writer must have realised to some extent given that he skipped over half the verse in discussing it.
For example, 'it's only so many ways you can say grace' doesn't really make any sense in that context. 'Marginalia, busy with symbols and equations, the story too simple to calculate it, payment post dated' too.
Also, there's just some fundamental misreadings present. For instance, he writes that woods is the one saving face, but its clearly the 'she' doing that action.
I still think it is about woods' mother and the immediate aftermath of his father's death. I'll reply to this with my a***ysis again, line by line, with a bit more depth.
I'm excited to see if this lyric booklet gives more clarity. If it doesn't, I'm somewhat tempted to email and just ask woods directly.
Mf join us for a review !!
- Apr 7, 2021·1 replyMarcus is Dust
Mf join us for a review !!
Yo, when you planning to do it?
- Apr 7, 2021
Love how woods’ last words on Robert Moses are “The dead have no say” and then his next verse is rapping from the perspective of a dead person
- Apr 7, 2021·1 replyDwindlingSun
Yo, when you planning to do it?
This weekend possibly? Or whenever you’re free man lmk. Would love to have ya
- Apr 7, 2021·editedsabbatical_
Is it performative or is it practice?
Praxis is the blending of theory and practice and can also be understood as the process by which theory is embodied and enacted. For education, praxis is theoretically grounded actions evidenced in learning environments of all types.
In the philosophy of language and speech acts theory, performative utterances are sentences which not only describe a given reality, but also change the social reality they are describe.'Performative language' considers issues concerning the meaning and effects of language, identity and the nature of the subject. Performative utterances do not describe but perform the action they designate.
Billy follows this up to make joke about the practice moment that is very famous. That is he moves from a complex idea to a simple one so that He dont alienate people.
What i have been thinking about is that, is just talkig. About our politics enough or do we have to do praxis.
What are tour thoughts on this line?
Yeah I think your interpretation is good—woods is asking if what he’s doing is performative—i.e., is this “iridescent blackness” solely artistic/constrained to words—or is it praxis—being converted to material change.
Kinda tough to decontextualize those lines tho. “Black Sunlight” is of course paradoxical, and so woods is marking that relationship with black culture references, inc. contrasting African accents with American names, joy with death, light with night. The last lines—“Revolvers to automatics back to revolvers, nothing is static, black b******s / Negro humor, laugh in the casket / Yellow teeth, incisors flashin / Some nights the sun shines, just gotta catch it”—suggest a power struggle between pain and joy... making the most out of bad circumstances, finding peace in uncertainty, etc.
- Apr 7, 2021·1 replyMarcus is Dust
This weekend possibly? Or whenever you’re free man lmk. Would love to have ya
That could well work
consider me in - Apr 9, 2021
Apr 9, 2021·2 repliesbilly on that siifu deluxe
- Apr 9, 2021·1 replyBdoubleO
billy on that siifu deluxe
https://ronee.bandcamp.com/track/numbers-on-yo-head-ft-billy-woods
Absolutely killed that.
- Apr 9, 2021DwindlingSun
Absolutely killed that.
and that beat by craven as well… good looking combo
Apr 9, 2021·1 replyTook a few days off this and came back to it. I’m about 60% there connect the references and punchlines
- Apr 9, 2021·edited·2 replies
Her: “He’s probably thinking about another girl”
Me: “Why did woods mention La Liga on ‘Robert Moses’”
- Apr 9, 2021RICHAXXVOYCE
Took a few days off this and came back to it. I’m about 60% there connect the references and punchlines
Before I even do this I just try to nail down literal meanings. Like why tf did Elucid say “concrete crumb cake”
- Apr 9, 2021·1 replyBdoubleO
billy on that siifu deluxe
https://ronee.bandcamp.com/track/numbers-on-yo-head-ft-billy-woods
He’s getting colder and colder... incredible
- Apr 9, 2021Marcus is Dust
Her: “He’s probably thinking about another girl”
Me: “Why did woods mention La Liga on ‘Robert Moses’”
that reference always throws me too - Apr 9, 2021·1 replyMarcus is Dust
He’s getting colder and colder... incredible
Wrote the book but the truth what we jotted in the margins
- Apr 10, 2021DwindlingSun
Wrote the book but the truth what we jotted in the margins
Foster wallace
- Apr 10, 2021·2 replies
No Christmas this Christmas, kitchen frigid
Space heater in the room, Chinese delivered
Watched the Knicks, every shot missed
Like airplane bottles out mini-fridges
I washed dishes, I'm an isthmus
My arm's length is quite the distance
Once distant future now day-to-day existence
My ex-wife is my mistress
Your woman on a pedastal but this Ruby Ridge s***
Put your life on a grid, let nxggas see how you did
Look close kids, you can see where a nxgga just barely slid in
Under a microscope it's clear somethin' had to give
Words glib, dress 'em up, put 'em on the track to see what you can get
Verses turnin' tricks, pacin' the telly sick
Still took the money, I'm a piece of s***
Prodigal, blew the gift, it was a hell of a trip
BUT I’M BACK, RAP WITH YA LAPELS IN MY FIST
