Known Unknowns

by Billy Woods

Known Unknowns cover art

Partnering entirely with producer Blockhead, the fiercely independent New York rapper delivers an incredibly dense, lyrically acrobatic masterpiece. Blockhead's idiosyncratic, dusty sampling provides a comparatively upbeat counterpart to Woods's typically paranoid, cynical storytelling concerning gentrification, racial history, and personal failure. It stands as a pinnacle achievement within the 2010s abstract hip-hop underground.

Genres

  • Abstract Hip Hop

Tracklist

  1. Bush League
  2. Snake Oil
  3. Unstuck
  4. Wonderful
  5. Superpredator
  6. Fall Back
  7. Groundhogs Day
  8. Everybody Knows
  9. Police Came to My Show
  10. Nomento
  11. Washington Redskins
  12. Tupac Jackets
  13. Source Awards
  14. Strawman
  15. Cheap Shoes
  16. Gazpacho
  17. Keloid
  18. Robespierre