Album Review: Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
“At times, the album may step one foot too far into that abyss, but billy woods and ELUCID are still operating at another level of genius entirely for the vast majority of We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, and at this point in their careers, one hand could count the number of living writers (in any medium, frankly) operating on the same level and with the same consistency.”
Album Review: billy woods, Kenny Segal - Maps
“Maps is in many ways a singular achievement in billy woods’ expansive canon, in no small part due to Segal one-upping their last collaboration and matching woods’ lyrical vision with a set of intimate instrumentals that prove just how much potential the duo have left to manifest.”
Album Review: billy woods, Messiah Musik - Church
“Church finds billy woods turning inward for its context, and all questions raised by such a hurried release schedule are decidedly answered by both its exposed, intimate nature and its unambiguous excellence.”
Album Review: billy woods - Aethiopes
“It’s difficult to say where the refinement on Aethiopes ends and the fresh perspective begins, but that is merely a symptom of billy woods’ intrinsic brilliance, and his inability to write a verse that doesn’t feel completely revolutionary in one way or another.”
Take Me to Your Leader: MF DOOM’s Overlooked Masterpiece
In an unrivaled catalogue of legendary albums, DOOM’s strangest release is also his most criminally underrated.
That’s That: The Legacy of MF DOOM
“There’s a reason people often refer to DOOM as “your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper”; not only would one be hard-pressed to find a distinguished modern hip hop artist that wasn’t directly influenced by the work of Daniel Dumile, but the masked MC was a master of his craft in the most technical sense, the kind of rapper whose flows and punchlines only get more and more impressive the deeper one’s appreciation of the artform gets.”
Half-Year in Review #3: R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
“If you wanted to pitch milo to an unsuspecting initiate, you could probably spin the rapper’s more eccentric qualities into assets with a little poetic license. Talk about his offbeat flow, his ambitiously understated approach to rapping, maybe quote a few bars and hope they can define Sonderweg but don’t know what futanari is. If you want to pitch R.A.P. Ferreira, just refer them to Purple Moonlight Pages and let the rapper’s newfound candor do the talking for you.”
