Tag: Billy Woods
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2022 FME MVP=billy woods
by Dan O …the ability woods has to impact a song or an albums identity with a single bar is like no one else. The crowd of people with their digital arms folded, eyes down, mumbling that billy woods isn’t really a rapper…more of a spoken word poet is thinning. The blanket they are using…
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State of The Game Vol.39 AOTY p.2 1-25
by Dan-O This is a really good talk. The first five minutes is me disclosing my list process for the first time. It’s an all year process I think you’ll find interesting and it means that I’m thinking about some of these albums all year. This talk is full of rants I love and a…
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FME 2020 MVP =ELUCID
by Dan-O & PremRock I realized Elucid was the FME MVP for 2020 while I was voting for the next president of the United States. I really didn’t want another term for our 45th president. My state has rank choice voting so I buried his name beneath all the other options. Looking at the write…
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State of The Game Vol.36-The Art of Intentionality
by Dan-O ATTENDEESDaniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA● Talk about three albums that are completely different in tone andintention assessing levels of success.● Figure out how to tell intention from the albums discussed, what to lookfor. NOTES● Rico Nasty-Nightmare Vacation. Billed as her debut album the Maryland MChas build scream rap into a different place. She…
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#BandcampGold-Midnight Sons by Zilla Rocca and DJ Chong Wizard
by Dan-O Zilla Rocca doesn’t believe in perfect idols but he believes in surviving the right way. If you go back to 2018’s Hard Boiled ep he phrases it very concisely “We’ve all given half to the hand in our face. We’ve all taken stones from the holiest place.(Run Rabbit Run)” The world runs schemes on us…
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#BandcampGold-ShrapKnel (Curly Castro x PremRock)
by Dan-O Backwoodz Studioz has had a heck of a 2020. Obviously, the flagship act is Armand Hammer-Shrines which captured the national conversation as Clippers-fan-not-Lakers-fan option against Run The Jewels 4. To have another group album of the year, ShrapKnel, to put alongside that release is stupendous(I know it came out first, RELAX). If you came…
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#Bandcampgold-Eastern Medicine, Western Illness by Preservation
by Dan-O The intangible brilliance in a producer is being able to arrive at and capture the very best of an artist. It’s a combination of casting the right voices on your songs and making sure you give the audience the very height of what they bring to the table. That is the true victory…
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FME MVP HONORABLE MENTION
FME MVP HONORABLE MENTION by Dan-O No matter what the run time is, a Billy Woods song is a meal. You can spend some real time lost in his lyrics. Read the only full verse from the last song(Stranger In The Village) on his second album of the year, Terror Management. (Per Genius) Came through…
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FIVE QUESTIONS FOR BILLY WOODS
Intro and questions by Dan-O Answers by Billy Woods It has been very difficult this to year to pick an MVP. So many artists committed to their vision on a very high level. I will reveal the Honorable Mention next week and roll out the OFFICIAL MVP post the week after that. In the meantime,…
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