billy woods between POWERFUL and powerless. "Hiding Places" with Kenny Segal review
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
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Wow hopefully the interview with Billy Woods and Kenny Segal works out! That’s going to be epic! Also glad to hear you like Dead End Hip Hop, I feel like they don’t get the attention they deserve. You guys should collaborate!
We've exchanged messages of mutual appreciation. Not really sure what a collaboration would look like, but I think we are all up for it.
@@professorskyedo something like fantano when he FaceTimed in on some of their review videos
Stepped on a rake.
YOU DID IT!! This album is amazing, im so glad you're going back for once, this is definitely a guy that deserves the whole retrospective
🎯🎯🎯💯🙏🏼
Thank you so much for putting so much care and thought into discussing my favorite hip hop album. Eternal big ups to Professor Skye, The Most High!
I cannot tell you how many times that "fucking with the joystick pretending I was really playing" line has either cropped up tears or sent shivers down my spine. Genius line that calls back to childhood memories while being powerless to the reality of things, under this illusion of being in control. I also have very many memories as a poor kid in restaurant arcade corners pretending to play something like Hydro Thunder or Cruis'n Exotica. Billy Woods music has really changed how I consume music, and view it in general. So glad to have discovered someone willing to dive into the depths of his work.
I use to play Hydro Thunder 🎉
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1:52 😯🥰 Awwww, THANK YOU, Professor... you did make me _very_ happy, indeed! Great job, as always - and very thoughtful of you to mention me 😁. I appreciate how much time & energy you put into each video, considering how busy you are (which is why I only recommend something I think you'll really like).
Really, really hoping that woods/Segal interview happens!! 🙏 Can only imagine some of the great topics you guys could delve into.
And, yes, people do overlook how funny woods is...
PS. _Glengarry Glenn Ross_ is currently up on YT for free, for all those billy woods fans who haven't seen it - _"...third prize is you're fired!"_ 🤣 GREAT film and play (although the Baldwin character isn't in the play, of course)!
I love _Succession_ and will REALLY miss it! Another great work about the powerful and the powerless...
I agree about _The W..._ "Careful (Click-Click)" is my joint - and I agree with your Griselda/Armand Hammer relation to Wu.
As always, love your political talk - Trump is a coward and anyone who thinks universal, single-payer healthcare is bad hasn't got a valid opinion... they're just wrong.
!!! Interested on those playlist!!! More details of the winning plan?
"Stood pooled in porchlight. Cut my shadow off with a dull knife. Whispered in its ear and set it off into the night." - Houthi
Glad you've actually re-recorded this. Your videos help me appreciate a genre I love more. Thankyou!
some additional detail on his biography: he explained how his father’s role in the zimbabwean revolutionary government was a more administrative one, such as organizing fundraising, rather than being one of the people actively overthrowing the british government. in relation to Mugabe, woods also said that he attended his father’s funeral. i heard this from a 2012 interview you can find on youtube where he was maybe less worried about sharing personal details because less people were hearing it.
I heard his father worked in the Ministry of finance at one point. Woods is the only rapper dropping Bear Sterns punchlines. Multiple references to economics in general are peppered throughout his catalog.
The house on the cover is a mansion designed by Albert Kahn in Detroit. Here's a quote: "This house, one of Albert Kahn's first commissions, was built in 1893 for the wealthy banker William Livingstone. In the 1990s, it was moved and replanted a few yards away on a vacant lot. Eventually, its facade collapsed in 2007 and the house was demolished a few months later."
that line from "a day in a week in a year" that pretending i was really playing is so layered, it also eludes to spending half of one's life working in a system (machine) making money for someone else while pretending to believe that one is really doing it for themselves.
also this following line gives another perspective to the whole narrative of the song:
"If I lose it was rigged
I'm the man if I win
Before settlin' on a narrative, I took 'em all for a spin."
dope review as always, wish it was longer though. love and peace.
Such a crazy metaphor
we need that interview
Glad you got around to checking this out and reviewing it!
Awesome hearing you talk about this Woods album also Niggerati was a term used to describe the authors of the Harlem Renaissance
I used to watch the raindrops on the window when I was a kid. I haven’t thought about that in years and the way you described it just flooded me with memories
Would love a review on Orpheus vs. the Sirens by Hermit and the Recluse. The Punishment of Sisyphus is one of my favourite hip hop songs ever written
Thank you for going back to this album, definitely worth a listen and a review from you. Do Brass by billy woods and Moor Mother next, as you one of the few people who could do a review of it justice.
Nothing else like Professor Skye reviews out there 👏 we appreciate you!
Yo you need to do old KA if your going back, you will not regret it
This is definitely worth a review and listen.
you should review bar italia’s new album tracey denim. they’re an indie, post-punk band from london connected to dean blunt
glad you did this, one of my all time favourites. Was obsessed with the cover for a while so I got a truckload of paintings and sketches of that building.
The main thing of the album for me as always been secrets, what people were thinkin when they pause and ammend their thoughts, the hiding places we retreat into to survive, the horrific realities that are hushed for our daily bread. Class dynamics and revolutionary politics too of course, it's just the secrets that capture me the most.
The wildest part is the absolutely head beating dark sarcasm we sing in these gallows, how am I laughing at this? And why am I so glad/willing to?
have a good one skye, hope we see some more select blasts from the past. this one was absolutely overdue
I love this take on the album and see the album that way myself. Its thematically tied around the hiding places that we are forced to use as survival mechanisms against modern society, to make it through the days.
Would love to hear more about the art you got of the mansion.
So glad you mentioned the final verse on A Day in A Week in A Year. I genuinely feel it’s one of the greatest verses ever written. You either got it or you don’t, so simple yet so impactful. AVAA
Thank you professor. This is the album that got me into Woods.
I imagine the forehead injury was new baby induced. Not her per se, but like, trying to pick up a Skye Paw Patrol figure off the ground for baby girl and banging your head on a shelf.
Referring to what you said at the beginning of the review, Professor, talking about Woods’ inadequacy feeling being bicultural, in Italy we say “né carne né pesce”, translated “not meat neither fish”. Just wanted to add this way of saying to make this review the most multicultural possible😂 thank you for reviewing this project, looking forward for the interview!!!
Yesss this is one of my favs of his! Maps too, one of my favs this year. Surprised you haven't checked out Kara Jackson! Her album this year is some really amazingly well written singer songwriter folk (she was the 2019 youth poet laureate too)
I haven't listened to anything by Billie Woods yet, but I'm so glad you've arrogated the right to interview him. I will watch with excitment what comes out from your collaboration
WOW What an album to go back to!! Best billy woods project I believe and thats saying a lot.
Glad to see you shout out Dead End Hip Hop they were the first Hip Hop youtubers I watched. Your review of hiding places is better than mine glad you dived into it!
Thank you for covering this. Woods whole catalog is worth lengthy discussions. Would really like to see you cover his other projects as well. Hope the interview happens. I typically don't like to hear too much from artists expounding on the meaning behind their work but I'd love to hear what he has to say about the pyrrhic line. Would also be great to hear more about his and Kenny's creative process as well. I'm curious how hands on woods is with producing the music especially because he works with so many different producers.
Great review as always, any further dispensation to retrospectively review woods work will be greatly accepted!
"It's not the heat its the dust" - believe this is a reference to the main complaint made by soldiers during the Afghanistan invasion, also ties into themes of war and dictatorship
36:50 Here is an interesting fact. I grew up in Soviet and Post Soviet environment. We had just a few (3) TV channels and we had almost no access to the fruits of western culture (just a few translated movies and couple of Beatles albums). So everyone in our giant cultural space watched the same movies (many times) and listened to same music (over and over again). So our daily life was soaked with catch phrases and references, wich every singe one could understand. When "Iron Curtain" fell, we suddenly experienced a HUGE WAVE of new (sometimes 30 years old, but we never seen it before) art from West. It made me realize: you can be familiar with a movie or musical album, that no one (in the radius of hundred miles) ever heard about.
i’m literally flying to the states just so i can take your french class in whatever school wow
YES one of my favorite experimental hip hop albums of last decade. The sound is SO unique
Great, great album. Nice, thoughtful, academic review.
“Kenny segal’s drums are not quantized and presently that’s what gives me purpose” - Rory
i think you liked billy woods soo much that you went back. i remember when you was reviewing ka that you don't go back, forward is were you're always going.
"I'm only rhyming where the horn are at" is a reference to "I'm only rhyming where the drums is at" by Viktor Vaughn (MF DOOM) on the track "A Dead Mouse"
much love
"Just say he's the best, let's not argue"
So happy to see this
😮😮😮 he listened to an album that wasn't recorded yesterday!!! I salute you for that
I'm so happy you know how you got the mark
You leaned hard into an improperly nailed nail?
I think you might be interested, with regards to the Donald Glover line, in Wood's 2004 release, "the Chalice" the track "Capture the Flag" includes the line, "This is America/Everybody can't eat"
I was hoping this video would be made.
Thanks Professor for reviewing this album. My favourite billy woods album
You might not see this, but out of curiosity have you listened to any Mach-Homny albums that are not on streaming services? Such as The GAT, Luh Hertz, Dump Gawd: Hommy Edition etc.? I know it’s unlikely we will get your takes on these albums but I know you love Mach and these albums deserve a listen for any Mach fan
Love your work. Thanks man!
Yes sir it’s so kool that we have the professor’s RUclips channel
You saw SLAPSHOT?! That's what's up!
Hi Skye, show is great, great review. HOWEVER. You did not talk about the second verse of Spongebob enough, in my opinion. The importance of the grave sickness/imminent death of that family member pertinent to his call in Africa (his mother?) is another aspect to what he's "hiding" from. "i can't go there with nothing but my shirt" etc. The death of family is a very recurring theme in his work, he talks about the death of multiple family members on bigfakelaugh as well. Incredible second verse on spongebob but you didn't get past the hobby lobby line 😩
Other Lee "Scratch" Perry to check out: Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin, Heart of the Congos - The Congos, War ina Babylon - Max Romeo, Super Ape - The Upsetters and Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread by Lee Perry.
Oh man, the Congos are just unreal.
Man in a hole comes up again on terror management album
Prof, im from Syracuse and was actually at Destiny at the same time as you haha much love, thank you for all you do
I was *this close* to my first public interaction with an auditor! :)
@@professorskye Im certain itll happen one day. I greatly admire you!
thank you
when I click on these videos i tell myself i will only stay for about 10 minutes, but the next thing I know im 1:31:33 deep
More Retro Reviews!
skye stole my old navy tee🤬
[ professor you NEED to hear the new lemon twigs please ]
You can totally dance to SpongeBob, FTR
When my father passed he planned it to where he died at home cremation center picked him up abd he donated his organs total process cost 1250 and he paid up front.
Next more old Mach albums
Opened cupboard
i dont know if i've ever seen you go back to an old album
He did HBO a while and kinda fumbled the review imo
Looks like it’s time to dip into the whole woods catalogue. As well as some other Backwoodz artists. Make sure you review at least the Backwoodz releases coming this year. Cavalier, Fatboi Sharif, Fielded has an album coming that is nothing like she or Backwoodz has ever done, Blockhead and finally Armand Hammer.
Skye it's a retro review but you really need to check out Origami Harvest by Ambrose Akinmusire, its poetry and philosophy will be right up your alley. It has different instruments representing different classes and races, and great commentary on patriotism and culture.
One the greatest albums ever
Please review Parrafin next!!
If you actually get to interview billy and Kenny I would hope you can ask them why haven’t they named their duo “KenWood Speakers”. The name is perfect.
Yes, this album deserves to be reviewed. And you ran into a door.
Bonjour professeur! Avez-vous un playlist de chansons québécois? Je suis entrain d'apprendre la langue française avec le programme explore à l'université de Laval. Un de mes professeurs nous a déjà donner un et je voulais savoir si tu en avais un a partagé.
You may have another retro review necessary on your hands, as "Niggarati" is very well possibly a Mach-Hommy reference from Dollar Menu 3 😏
Miss you too
Review the new Paul Simon, it's not getting a lot of attention and even of the attention it is getting it hasn't been uniformly positive, but i think he might be hinting at impending mortality to us in the same way Bowie and Leonard Cohen did on their final releases, and it appeals a lot to me in particular as someone who's favorite moments in the S&G discography were the more melancholic and acoustic ones (like "overs" and "old friends" from the bookends album)
LETS GOOOOOOOOO
Can you do Panda Bear’s Person Pitch? Please?
more retro reviews pls
RETRO REVIEWEWW whatttt
If you gon do this for woods you gotta do it for armand hammer at one point
You got heart
Tell it true also
Maps is fantastic. But HP is so much better imo. The subject matter makes it more appealing to me.
Any sane working class person in this country should know we our living in the belly of the beast.
civilised countries have free healthcare btw avaa
WOo
Damn you went over spider holes too fast imo. It also just occurred to me that his line “ I don’t wanna see NAS with an orchestra at Carnegie hall” is kinda antithetical to a lot of your work. You’ve talked about wanting to elevate rap and hiphop or at least help lend legitimacy to it. And woods seems vehemently against this.
Interesting question. I want to elevate hip-hop, but I think that needs to be done on its own terms. Nas wasn’t elevated playing at Carnegie hall, Carnegie Hall was elevated for having him! The external approval represented by that event reinforces the hierarchy which I believe to be false (and a tool of white supremacy)
I think you misunderstand the professor's intent here. Skye talks all the time about how Hiphop does not need to be "elevated". Hiphop can stand on its own as an art form and does not need to be placed alongside more produced cultural products like high art or even 'cannon' literature.
I think you breezed spider hole abit too quickly. The line about nas at carnegie isn't about the fear of reflection, but rather the abject nature of classical music and the nuances of classism involved. There were times when hiphop wasn't even respected by this class of musicians and now they want them at carnegie hall. Nas being accompanied by an orchestra is not only seen as a essentially an exploitive move of nas on both ends, but woods feels as if he would sacrifice his own ideals by participating in such a spectacle.
Day 123 of Asking you to Review Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youth
Now do Today I Wrote Nothing!
Bro, you just said, “let me help these people with my musicianship… he has a skill and he’s giving it to hiphop.”
I know you said the first part satirically but you’re still really othering hiphop and placing Kenny segal as the norm and hiphop and Blackness as other. Weird thing to hear on your channel. I know you’re fallible, obviously, but damn, that tone was crazy.
Woods fans read books
Don’t forget to ask woods if he meant to mispronounce pyrrhic