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The Year in Albums So Far

The Pitchfork Review

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Maps: A Concept Album About Traveling the World

The thing about Billy Woods is that he really writes music for fans, fans of rap, fans of his own stuff. All of his music is very intertextual. He has this amazing line in one of his songs where he's at a hotel and he hears everybody coming into the hotel from the Playboy Cardi show for the after party. What's so great about it is that I can see where he is in the broader world of rap. And Maps is a wonderful album, kind of a concept album about like being on tour and traveling the world as an independent rapper.

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