billy woods Announces New Album GOLLIWOG: Hear “Misery”

Right now, the New York underground rap fixture billy woods has a decent claim on the Best Rapper Alive throne. He might not want that, and he doesn’t have the kind of widespread fame that such a title usually implies. But he’s been doing head-wrecking, inspiring work for a long time, and everything he does is at least worth a listen. Plenty of woods’ greatest work has been as half of Armand Hammer or as the person behind the Backwoodz Studioz label. He’s also an increasingly huge presence on other people’s records, whether that means his Backwoodz labelmates or non-rap entities like Shabaka and Panchiko. Even with all that, woods’ greatest work might come in the form of his solo albums, and he’s just announced another one of those.