Released: July 2, 2013

Featuring: Aesop Rock

Songwriter: Aesop Rock ​billy woods

Producer: Blockhead

[Aesop Rock]
Z-z-z-z, pop go the landscape
Belly-up throwing socks at the fan blades
One o’clock, dummy lock eyes with a mickey mouse pancake
Pox on his tipping side handshake
Slobs in a city-wide campground, translate
Tan lions examining how the lamb taste
Needs more saffron, lead 4 eyes where his hands ain’t
Hand-painted mask on, Badassquiat
Tap math rock on a harp string
Mosh like a sasquatch l.a.r.p.ing
Seen amoebas grow to vapid fashionistas
Freeing a can of worms mistook for a panacea
See the regulars exude a particular brand of diva
‘til a basic interaction take a local anesthesia to stomach
Amnesia beloved, reanimated from the chrysalis
Splitting atoms over shitty crinkle cuts, lemme guess
Another mac the knife with the passion of christ
I would rather be trapped in ice
He flexi with the tech and exit left from the director’s chair
Pocket-knife and a box of strike anywheres
Might break off from the pack like Uncle Traveling Matt
Mail a couple suspicious packages back
But the mission is in front of him
Operation tooth and nail
Turn troops into boots and belts

[Billy Woods]
Russian roullette relationships
Step in the front door guns to your own heads
His & her 44s matching rubber grips
Just Me & My Bitch/romantic revolvers
She threatened to leave/replied
I’d buy that for a dollar
Took a few weeks
But I’m back to rolling ‘em smaller
It’s the little things
The bitter flings
Rebounding with the illest springs
Icarus aloft on pride’s brittle wings
Heavy hand/Singapore Slings/Good man
I appreciate a barkeep who keep my cup on brim
And might perhaps point me towards some trim
Eye blinks pan flashes
Suddenly the only person in the bar not wearing glasses
Keeps a flask in hand but for that special someone might pass it
The Minus Man
Takes his meals alone close to home two glasses Cote de Rhone
Slipped out unnoticed/the tip was decent
Nods good evening to policemen passing the precinct
Must’ve already made quota
Crocodile Tears P.W. Botha
Maybe I shoulda stuck it out instead going home to a sofa
Arrived via chauffeur
Dipped in a jack-o-lantern arm in arm with a slattern
Shot from the hip/excuses in the holster/extended clip
One in the head and I ain't stop squeezing till I knew it was dead

​billy woods

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.

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