Then get him on some LUM beats finally like woods had wanted
Then get him on some LUM beats finally like woods had wanted
Album of the year.
By very far. Which is wild cause it’s been a lot of great music this year
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 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 ?
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
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
Does anyone have woods verse on odessa transcribed? Really hard to follow that verse seems hard to understand to me as well.
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
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
*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?
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.
ELUCID has upcoming features on Moor Mother's album and a track with Medhane, prod. Chuck Strangers.
speech that's sampled on Charms
!https://youtu.be/R4rDL-xZ8N0Yes! Thank you for this
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.