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“I thought of the people before me who had looked down
at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered
about them. I wondered how they had done it—it, the
physical act.

I simply wondered about the dead because their days had
ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
—James Baldwin

billy woods is a rapper who defies easy categorization; he was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Africa and the West Indies. On the mic, woods is no less of a conundrum, possessed of versatile flows and an ability to not only tackle topics other artists wouldn’t dream of, but also to bring unique perspectives to the familiar ones.