Aethiopes
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Album • Apr 08 / 2022 • 13 songs, 39m 10s
Abstract Hip Hop
Experimental Hip Hop
East Coast Hip Hop
Conscious Hip Hop
Popular
Highly Rated
DIGITAL VERSION OF THE ALBUM DROPS ON APRIL 8, 2022. Aethiopes is billy woods’ first album since 2019’s double feature of Hiding Places and Terror Management. The project is fully produced by Preservation (Dr Yen Lo, Yasiin Bey), who delivered a suite of tracks on Terror Management, including the riveting single “Blood Thinner”. The two collaborated again on Preservation’s 2020’s LP Eastern Medicine, Western Illness, which featured a memorable billy woods appearance on the song “Lemon Rinds”, as well as the B-side “Snow Globe”.
8.0
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The rapper’s latest album is a clear mid-career apex that shoves his always outlandish style into territories further afield than ever before.