When it first burst onto the scene in 2019, this collaborative outing between rapper billy woods and producer Kenny Segal turned more than a few heads. Celebrating five years of making listeners gloriously uncomfortable, Hiding Places was lauded by Pitchfork for its evocation of early 2000s NYC underground rap and the unpredictable likes of Cannibal Ox, while Sputnik Music came straight out the gate and called it "utterly spellbinding". - Flying Out

It is the five year anniversary of the release of billy woods and Kenny Segal’s classic album Hiding Places. As time passes, and more of the duo’s work enters the canon, it is easy to forget what an unlikely pairing these two were in 2019. Both woods and Segal were already more than a decade into their careers, but neither had collaborated this deeply with artists outside of their coastal scenes. Kenny’s most recent projects were a couple jazzy instrumental albums and production for Self-Jupiter, Open Mike Eagle, and Milo. For his part; woods was two years removed from his previous solo album with Blockhead. Then Hiding Places happened and changed the trajectories of both artists, and Backwoodz Studioz, with it.

Tracklist

Spongebob
Steak Knives
Checkpoints
Spider Hole
Houthi
A Day In A Week featuring MOTHERMARY
Bedtime
Crawlspace *featuring ELUCID
Speak Gently featuring Self Jupiter
Toothy
Bigfakelaugh
Red Dust