Maps

The second collaboration between rapper billy woods and producer Kenny Segal, 'Maps' is a conceptual travelogue exploring the alienation and strange comforts of life as a touring musician. woods delivers densely layered, surrealist verses filled with poignant observations and deadpan humor, touching on themes of home, identity, and the liminal spaces of travel. Segal’s production provides a dynamic and often jazz-inflected counterpoint, shifting from lighter boom-bap arrangements with piano and saxophone to more abstract, dissonant textures that reflect the narrative's emotional shifts, distinguishing the album's varied palette from the darker tone of their previous work, 'Hiding Places'.