On these two career highlights, woods’ dizzying raps seem to be fuelled by a strict diet of robusta coffee, high strength weed, and Cormac McCarthy novels. Back even further on “The Foreigner,” the Washington D.C.-born artist uncovered beams of light amid a modern malaise, as he pondered whether antidepressants were helping or holding back his generation (“Beat the odds or eat your meds”).
The haunting song contains a transcendent but proggy flute sample that’s stretched out to imitate the howls of a lost lamb. “It’s a freedom in admitting it’s not going to get better / washing your hands of people you’ve known forever,” the veteran underground rapper billy woods boldly proclaimed on 2022’s “Remorseless,” creating an instant mantra for thousands unsure of how to embrace life amid a bleak future filled with irreversible climate change and AI pretending to be Biggie Smalls (more on that later).
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