billy woods
billy woods
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Billy Woods (stylized billy woods) is an American alternative hip hop artist based in New York City. The founder of the record label Backwoodz Studioz and one half of duo Armand Hammer, Woods does not show his face in press photos or videos unless it’s obscured by a mask or by digitized fuzz.
He was born Washington D.C. but spent much of his childhood in Africa and the West Indies. His mother is a Jamaican intellectual, while his father was from Zimbabwe and he was a member of the Marxist government who ruled the country from the 80s. They met in the United States as graduate students in New York City. His father was in NY to further his education as a political refugee, while his mother was here studying. In 1981 the family moved to Africa, but, after the death of Woods' father, they returned to the US in 1995.
Woods started making music in the late 1990s. During the 2000s he was member of duo Super Chron Flight Brothers (with Priviledge) and collective The Reavers, as well as active as a solo artist.