MAPS by BILLY WOODS & KENNY SEGAL

ONLY 1 UNIT IS ALLOWED PER CUSTOMER! 

Buckle up, it's going to be a wild ride! Ashes57 did a great job on the Maps artwork which includes 140g translucent orange crush vinyl and an insert styled after an airline safety card,, as woods & Segal want you to be prepared for what could come your way.

Maps is the new album from NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, their first full collaboration since 2019’s Hiding Places. Four years after that landmark record, the duo have reunited with a vengeance. Maps is a story of the road, or roads, taken and untaken; of living the dream and dreaming of another life. It is an album about trying to find your way home, after making your home wherever you lay your head. 

“Kenny and I made more songs together before Hiding Places than we did after,” woods says. “I think we only collaborated once over the last four years and although we didn’t talk about it, I think we wanted to let that energy build again. Neither of us wanted to make Hiding Places 2. We needed to go on other journeys, artistic and otherwise, to come back and do something fresh.” 

Produced in full by Kenny Segal, Maps features Danny Brown, ELUCID (Armand Hammer), Shabaka Hutchins, Sam Herring (Future Islands), Quelle Chris, Aesop Rock, Benjamin Booker, and ShrapKnel. Segal moves effortlessly through styles but everything is underpinned with deep basslines and mean drums laid down like railroad tracks. Weaving between poignant memoir, deadpan humor, and incandescent bursts of surrealism, Maps cements both artists’ place amongst the best of their time. 

All songs written by billy woods except where noted 
Produced and mixed by Kenny Segal 
Engineered by Kenny Segal, Steel Tipped Dove 
Additional engineering by Aesop Rock 
Mastered by Willie Green @ The Greenhouse 
Aaron Carmack - rhodes on 3,17 
Aaron Shaw - tenor sax on 12 
Jason Wool - piano on 11, rhodes on 16 
Joanne - additional vocals on 15 
Mike Parvizi - bass on 17 
Ryan Crosby - guitar on 17 
Shabaka Hutchings - flute on 10 

Art Direction by billy woods 
Illustrations by ashes57 
Graphic Design by ashes57 

Thanks to ELUCID, Mo Niklz, J. Corso, KK, Manami, Jeilah, J. Markey, Patric, Injury Reserve, Brooke, Alchemist, Joanne, Conor & Lauren, M. Crook, Dave @ DailyOp, Domenico, BoyQ, Akkee, Rich Jones, Anton, Yungmorpheus, and most memorably, Levi Neal.

TRACKLIST:

A1Kenwood Speakers

A2Soft Landing

A3Soundcheck Feat. Quelle Chris

A4Rapper Weed

B1Blue Smoke

B2Bad Dreams Are Only Dreams

B3Babylon By Bus Feat. Shrapknel

B4Year Zero Feat. Danny Brown

C1Hangman

C2Baby Steps Feat. Elucid & Benjamin Booker

C3The Layover

C4Facetime Feat. Sam Herring

D1Agriculture

D2Houdini

D3Waiting Around Feat. Aesop Rock

D4Nyc Tapwater

D5As The Crow Flies Feat. Elucid