BrooklynVegan's Top 50 Albums of 2022

From Nilüfer Yanya to Soul Glo to Kendrick Lamar to Beyoncé to Big Thief to Jockstrap to SZA to billy woods to Mindforce to Special Interest, here are our favorite albums of the year...

Published: December 14, 2022 19:00 Source

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Album • Apr 08 / 2022
Abstract Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop
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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”.