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  • Jun 27, 2021
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    Then get him on some LUM beats finally like woods had wanted

  • Jun 27, 2021
    DwindlingSun
    https://twitter.com/YourOldDroog/status/1408987493672927233

    Then get him on some LUM beats finally like woods had wanted

  • Jun 27, 2021
    DwindlingSun
    https://twitter.com/YourOldDroog/status/1408987493672927233

    Then get him on some LUM beats finally like woods had wanted

  • Jun 30, 2021

    I watch the cats watch the mice!

  • Jun 30, 2021

    Life's errors, carried you here like pallbearers.

  • Jul 2, 2021
  • Jul 2, 2021
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    Album of the year.

  • Jul 2, 2021
    NewCopeJustDropped

    Album of the year.

    By very far. Which is wild cause it’s been a lot of great music this year

  • Jul 3, 2021
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    This deserves to be somewhere in this thread--woods' lit. references.

    Literature

    *maybe mediated (through film or popular discourse)

    Achebe, Things Fall Apart 5.3, 5.11
    Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 5.3
    Aust, The Baader Meinhof Complex (1985)
    Baldwin
    The Fire Next Time 2.14, 6.2
    Interviews 6.9, 6.11
    “Stranger in the Village” (1953) 6.18
    Barrie, Peter Pan (1911) 3.9
    Bellow 3.6
    Bentham/Foucault 2.6
    Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) 1.20
    Bible
    Book of Judges 1.3
    Epistles/Acts 2.3
    Exodus 1.2, 2.4, 2.8, 3.20
    Genesis 1.3, 1.18, 3.20, 6.5
    Gospels of Luke and Matthew 1.12, 6.10
    Song of Songs 1.7
    “Stick with your own kind” 5.11
    Blake, “The Tyger” (1794) 3.16
    Brontë, Wuthering Heights 2.8
    Burgess, A Clockwork Orange 3.11
    Burns, “To a Mouse” / Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men 3.1, 5.6
    Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871) 2.15
    Carson, Silent Spring 6.15
    Chekhov 4.5
    Cicero 6.14
    Coates 6.2
    Coleridge
    “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798) 1.1
    “Kubla Khan” 4.3
    Conrad
    Heart of Darkness (1902) 1.3, 5.8, 6.1, 6.7
    “The Secret Sharer” (1910) 2.15
    Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 2.7
    Crouch, Stanley 1.9
    Dante, Inferno 3.4
    Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1.11
    D***ens
    A Christmas Carol 1.12
    David Copperfield 2.8
    Oliver Twist 2.8, 4.6, 5.10
    Great Expectations 5.5
    Donne, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” / Hemingway, ibid. 2.6, 3.3, 4.1
    Douglass, Frederick 4.5
    Dr. Seuss 4.8
    The Grinch 6.6
    Ellison, Invisible Man 2.9
    Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) 3.20, 4.6
    Fibbonacci 5.1
    Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” 1.8
    Gilgamesh 2.3
    Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1885) 1.3
    Heller, Catch 22 6.12
    Hobbes (?) (cf. Sowell) 1.4
    Homer / Greek myth
    Achilles 4.15
    Cyclops, minotaur 3.14, 4.4
    Helen of Troy 2.3
    Icarus 2.10
    Jason and the Argonauts 2.3
    Penelope 3.5
    Prometheus 1.3, 2.3, 5.5
    Trojan horse 3.16, 6.3
    Hugo, Les Misérables 2.15
    Hurston
    Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) 3.2
    Barracoon 6.18
    James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) 3.18
    Johns, Biggles (1893-1968) 2.9
    Kafka, “Metamorphosis” 6.1
    Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn” 5.11
    Kennedy, Adrienne, The Ohio State Murders (?) (1992)
    Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing (2007) 3.1
    King, The Shining 1.14
    Kipling
    The Man Who Would Be King (1888) 1.3
    “The White Man’s Burden” 1.3
    Kundera
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.3
    Snitch accusation 4.13
    Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons 2.8
    Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera 4.10
    Lorde, Audre 4.16
    Macchiavelli 4.12
    Marachara (1952-87, Zimbabwe) 2.15
    Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto 1.9
    McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) 3.6, 3.9, 3.20
    Cities of the Plain (1998) (?) 3.10
    Melville, Moby D*** (1851) (3.5)
    Milton, Paradise Lost 4.2
    Naipaul
    Mr. Biswass 5.11
    A Bend in the River 5.11
    Newton 5.1
    O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953) 3.11
    One Thousand and One Nights 2.8
    Orwell, 1984 2.13
    Paine 1.9
    Plato 5.7
    Poe
    “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842) 3.7
    “The Raven” 2.6
    Price
    “Bicycle Safety on Essex” (2008) 3.19
    Qutb, Sayyid 4.12
    Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988) 6.11
    Salinger 5.5
    Sartre, No Exit (1944) 4.5
    Shakespeare
    As You Like It 1.13
    Henry IV 1.12, 2.4
    Julius Caesar 3.11
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.7
    Othello 4.4
    Richard III 3.21
    Shelley, Frankenstein 4.14, 4.16
    Sowell, Thomas (econ article) (2010) 1.4
    Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (1947) 3.24, 4.1
    Tolstoy
    Zulu
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich 6.1
    Twain 1.9
    Vonnegut
    Breakfast of Champions (1973) (?) 3.15
    Slaughterhouse Five 4.3, 4.9
    2004 lecture 6.1
    Wallace, “Consider the Lobster” 4.14
    Wilde, “Ballad of Reading Gaol” 4.5
    Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny 3.7
    Yeats, “The Second Coming” 4.11

  • Jul 3, 2021
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    Marcus is Dust

    This deserves to be somewhere in this thread--woods' lit. references.

    Literature

    *maybe mediated (through film or popular discourse)

    Achebe, Things Fall Apart 5.3, 5.11
    Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 5.3
    Aust, The Baader Meinhof Complex (1985)
    Baldwin
    The Fire Next Time 2.14, 6.2
    Interviews 6.9, 6.11
    “Stranger in the Village” (1953) 6.18
    Barrie, Peter Pan (1911) 3.9
    Bellow 3.6
    Bentham/Foucault 2.6
    Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) 1.20
    Bible
    Book of Judges 1.3
    Epistles/Acts 2.3
    Exodus 1.2, 2.4, 2.8, 3.20
    Genesis 1.3, 1.18, 3.20, 6.5
    Gospels of Luke and Matthew 1.12, 6.10
    Song of Songs 1.7
    “Stick with your own kind” 5.11
    Blake, “The Tyger” (1794) 3.16
    Brontë, Wuthering Heights 2.8
    Burgess, A Clockwork Orange 3.11
    Burns, “To a Mouse” / Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men 3.1, 5.6
    Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871) 2.15
    Carson, Silent Spring 6.15
    Chekhov 4.5
    Cicero 6.14
    Coates 6.2
    Coleridge
    “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798) 1.1
    “Kubla Khan” 4.3
    Conrad
    Heart of Darkness (1902) 1.3, 5.8, 6.1, 6.7
    “The Secret Sharer” (1910) 2.15
    Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 2.7
    Crouch, Stanley 1.9
    Dante, Inferno 3.4
    Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1.11
    D***ens
    A Christmas Carol 1.12
    David Copperfield 2.8
    Oliver Twist 2.8, 4.6, 5.10
    Great Expectations 5.5
    Donne, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” / Hemingway, ibid. 2.6, 3.3, 4.1
    Douglass, Frederick 4.5
    Dr. Seuss 4.8
    The Grinch 6.6
    Ellison, Invisible Man 2.9
    Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) 3.20, 4.6
    Fibbonacci 5.1
    Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” 1.8
    Gilgamesh 2.3
    Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1885) 1.3
    Heller, Catch 22 6.12
    Hobbes (?) (cf. Sowell) 1.4
    Homer / Greek myth
    Achilles 4.15
    Cyclops, minotaur 3.14, 4.4
    Helen of Troy 2.3
    Icarus 2.10
    Jason and the Argonauts 2.3
    Penelope 3.5
    Prometheus 1.3, 2.3, 5.5
    Trojan horse 3.16, 6.3
    Hugo, Les Misérables 2.15
    Hurston
    Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) 3.2
    Barracoon 6.18
    James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) 3.18
    Johns, Biggles (1893-1968) 2.9
    Kafka, “Metamorphosis” 6.1
    Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn” 5.11
    Kennedy, Adrienne, The Ohio State Murders (?) (1992)
    Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing (2007) 3.1
    King, The Shining 1.14
    Kipling
    The Man Who Would Be King (1888) 1.3
    “The White Man’s Burden” 1.3
    Kundera
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.3
    Snitch accusation 4.13
    Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons 2.8
    Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera 4.10
    Lorde, Audre 4.16
    Macchiavelli 4.12
    Marachara (1952-87, Zimbabwe) 2.15
    Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto 1.9
    McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) 3.6, 3.9, 3.20
    Cities of the Plain (1998) (?) 3.10
    Melville, Moby D*** (1851) (3.5)
    Milton, Paradise Lost 4.2
    Naipaul
    Mr. Biswass 5.11
    A Bend in the River 5.11
    Newton 5.1
    O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953) 3.11
    One Thousand and One Nights 2.8
    Orwell, 1984 2.13
    Paine 1.9
    Plato 5.7
    Poe
    “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842) 3.7
    “The Raven” 2.6
    Price
    “Bicycle Safety on Essex” (2008) 3.19
    Qutb, Sayyid 4.12
    Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988) 6.11
    Salinger 5.5
    Sartre, No Exit (1944) 4.5
    Shakespeare
    As You Like It 1.13
    Henry IV 1.12, 2.4
    Julius Caesar 3.11
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.7
    Othello 4.4
    Richard III 3.21
    Shelley, Frankenstein 4.14, 4.16
    Sowell, Thomas (econ article) (2010) 1.4
    Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (1947) 3.24, 4.1
    Tolstoy
    Zulu
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich 6.1
    Twain 1.9
    Vonnegut
    Breakfast of Champions (1973) (?) 3.15
    Slaughterhouse Five 4.3, 4.9
    2004 lecture 6.1
    Wallace, “Consider the Lobster” 4.14
    Wilde, “Ballad of Reading Gaol” 4.5
    Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny 3.7
    Yeats, “The Second Coming” 4.11

    This is a references from that thesis og that guy right. Can you link it ?

  • Jul 3, 2021
    Marcus is Dust

    This deserves to be somewhere in this thread--woods' lit. references.

    Literature

    *maybe mediated (through film or popular discourse)

    Achebe, Things Fall Apart 5.3, 5.11
    Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 5.3
    Aust, The Baader Meinhof Complex (1985)
    Baldwin
    The Fire Next Time 2.14, 6.2
    Interviews 6.9, 6.11
    “Stranger in the Village” (1953) 6.18
    Barrie, Peter Pan (1911) 3.9
    Bellow 3.6
    Bentham/Foucault 2.6
    Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) 1.20
    Bible
    Book of Judges 1.3
    Epistles/Acts 2.3
    Exodus 1.2, 2.4, 2.8, 3.20
    Genesis 1.3, 1.18, 3.20, 6.5
    Gospels of Luke and Matthew 1.12, 6.10
    Song of Songs 1.7
    “Stick with your own kind” 5.11
    Blake, “The Tyger” (1794) 3.16
    Brontë, Wuthering Heights 2.8
    Burgess, A Clockwork Orange 3.11
    Burns, “To a Mouse” / Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men 3.1, 5.6
    Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871) 2.15
    Carson, Silent Spring 6.15
    Chekhov 4.5
    Cicero 6.14
    Coates 6.2
    Coleridge
    “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798) 1.1
    “Kubla Khan” 4.3
    Conrad
    Heart of Darkness (1902) 1.3, 5.8, 6.1, 6.7
    “The Secret Sharer” (1910) 2.15
    Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 2.7
    Crouch, Stanley 1.9
    Dante, Inferno 3.4
    Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1.11
    D***ens
    A Christmas Carol 1.12
    David Copperfield 2.8
    Oliver Twist 2.8, 4.6, 5.10
    Great Expectations 5.5
    Donne, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” / Hemingway, ibid. 2.6, 3.3, 4.1
    Douglass, Frederick 4.5
    Dr. Seuss 4.8
    The Grinch 6.6
    Ellison, Invisible Man 2.9
    Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) 3.20, 4.6
    Fibbonacci 5.1
    Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” 1.8
    Gilgamesh 2.3
    Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1885) 1.3
    Heller, Catch 22 6.12
    Hobbes (?) (cf. Sowell) 1.4
    Homer / Greek myth
    Achilles 4.15
    Cyclops, minotaur 3.14, 4.4
    Helen of Troy 2.3
    Icarus 2.10
    Jason and the Argonauts 2.3
    Penelope 3.5
    Prometheus 1.3, 2.3, 5.5
    Trojan horse 3.16, 6.3
    Hugo, Les Misérables 2.15
    Hurston
    Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) 3.2
    Barracoon 6.18
    James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) 3.18
    Johns, Biggles (1893-1968) 2.9
    Kafka, “Metamorphosis” 6.1
    Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn” 5.11
    Kennedy, Adrienne, The Ohio State Murders (?) (1992)
    Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing (2007) 3.1
    King, The Shining 1.14
    Kipling
    The Man Who Would Be King (1888) 1.3
    “The White Man’s Burden” 1.3
    Kundera
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.3
    Snitch accusation 4.13
    Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons 2.8
    Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera 4.10
    Lorde, Audre 4.16
    Macchiavelli 4.12
    Marachara (1952-87, Zimbabwe) 2.15
    Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto 1.9
    McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) 3.6, 3.9, 3.20
    Cities of the Plain (1998) (?) 3.10
    Melville, Moby D*** (1851) (3.5)
    Milton, Paradise Lost 4.2
    Naipaul
    Mr. Biswass 5.11
    A Bend in the River 5.11
    Newton 5.1
    O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953) 3.11
    One Thousand and One Nights 2.8
    Orwell, 1984 2.13
    Paine 1.9
    Plato 5.7
    Poe
    “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842) 3.7
    “The Raven” 2.6
    Price
    “Bicycle Safety on Essex” (2008) 3.19
    Qutb, Sayyid 4.12
    Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988) 6.11
    Salinger 5.5
    Sartre, No Exit (1944) 4.5
    Shakespeare
    As You Like It 1.13
    Henry IV 1.12, 2.4
    Julius Caesar 3.11
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.7
    Othello 4.4
    Richard III 3.21
    Shelley, Frankenstein 4.14, 4.16
    Sowell, Thomas (econ article) (2010) 1.4
    Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (1947) 3.24, 4.1
    Tolstoy
    Zulu
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich 6.1
    Twain 1.9
    Vonnegut
    Breakfast of Champions (1973) (?) 3.15
    Slaughterhouse Five 4.3, 4.9
    2004 lecture 6.1
    Wallace, “Consider the Lobster” 4.14
    Wilde, “Ballad of Reading Gaol” 4.5
    Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny 3.7
    Yeats, “The Second Coming” 4.11

    Missing frantz fanon, douglass and du bois

  • Jul 3, 2021
    sabbatical_

    This is a references from that thesis og that guy right. Can you link it ?

    Yeah, the best woods-centered text out imo: floriatoska.com/2020/12/26/an-introduction-to-the-rap-of-billy-woods

  • Jul 3, 2021
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    Does anyone have woods verse on odessa transcribed? Really hard to follow that verse seems hard to understand to me as well.

  • Jul 4, 2021

    F*** last call, put my song on.

  • Jul 5, 2021
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    sabbatical_

    Does anyone have woods verse on odessa transcribed? Really hard to follow that verse seems hard to understand to me as well.

    Just that quick, the wall was a pile of bricks
    Devil's greatest trick gets lost in the mix
    Hash balled up like toddler fists
    Tar ooze out the clip, cigars, I'm rich
    Sail the gulag archipelago on the skiff
    Peer into bottomless pit, I don't do kitsch
    Yeltsin vomit in the sink, dab blood from his lips
    In the spot Puffy would drink
    Throw new money at new money 'til Shyne do his thing
    VI with the worst guy waitin' in the wings
    I'm on CCCP time, they had to stop and think
    Private equity'll run a train on your central bank
    Viagra crunchin' like Skittles
    I went from dead stock to the top of discogs like Stinger missiles
    Now you want 'em back but it's only one issue (I gave 'em to some guy)
    The collective works of Karl Marx, feed the ducks in Gorky Park
    Bird watch, don't confuse robin and a lark
    The air crisp, the sun sharp
    Tell my old bird hop in the car
    In the winter the Moskvitch takes a few tries to start

  • Jul 5, 2021
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    sabbatical_
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    Just that quick, the wall was a pile of bricks
    Devil's greatest trick gets lost in the mix
    Hash balled up like toddler fists
    Tar ooze out the clip, cigars, I'm rich
    Sail the gulag archipelago on the skiff
    Peer into bottomless pit, I don't do kitsch
    Yeltsin vomit in the sink, dab blood from his lips
    In the spot Puffy would drink
    Throw new money at new money 'til Shyne do his thing
    VI with the worst guy waitin' in the wings
    I'm on CCCP time, they had to stop and think
    Private equity'll run a train on your central bank
    Viagra crunchin' like Skittles
    I went from dead stock to the top of discogs like Stinger missiles
    Now you want 'em back but it's only one issue (I gave 'em to some guy)
    The collective works of Karl Marx, feed the ducks in Gorky Park
    Bird watch, don't confuse robin and a lark
    The air crisp, the sun sharp
    Tell my old bird hop in the car
    In the winter the Moskvitch takes a few tries to start

    *sail the gulag archipelago

  • Jul 5, 2021
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    DwindlingSun

    *sail the gulag archipelago

    I understand each line individually but I don't get how it all ties together. What he wants to say. Not that I think that you understand something to appreciate it but as a lot of people said it is one of the best features on there thought to put somw time into it. What ypu think?

  • Jul 5, 2021
    sabbatical_

    I understand each line individually but I don't get how it all ties together. What he wants to say. Not that I think that you understand something to appreciate it but as a lot of people said it is one of the best features on there thought to put somw time into it. What ypu think?

    I always looked at it as a play in Gorky Park the movie. His references to Puffy, Shyne, his album sales via discogs. All have the same intrigue as the movie but from his perspective while tying in actual elements from the movie (Marx, gulag archipelago, Moskvitch, Yeltsin.

  • Jul 7, 2021
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    ELUCID has upcoming features on Moor Mother's album and a track with Medhane, prod. Chuck Strangers.

  • Jul 7, 2021

    Heroin dealers crane their necks against the absence of light

  • Jul 9, 2021
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    speech that's sampled on Charms

  • Jul 12, 2021
    sabbatical_

    speech that's sampled on Charms

    !https://youtu.be/R4rDL-xZ8N0

    Yes! Thank you for this

  • Jul 12, 2021
    DwindlingSun

    ELUCID has upcoming features on Moor Mother's album and a track with Medhane, prod. Chuck Strangers.

    Great partnership, Elucid and Moor Mother. Excited for his feature with Gabe Nandez, been enjoying his recent singles on YouTube.

  • Jul 15, 2021

    Is it a full project?? Thought it was just one Elucid feature