“When I was nine years old, I wrote a story about an evil golliwog. My mother read it and told me it was overly derivative and needed some work. Here we are,” said billy woods on his haunting ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. At the center of billy woods’ flickering, phantasmagoric GOLLIWOG is a pair of eyes. It belongs to the titular doll ...

Scattered across GOLLIWOG, the ominous new album by billy woods, are images of death in slow motion. On its opening song, he sees “morose villagers queue in the sun” for vaccines; later ...

At nine, Billy Woods was already creating worlds; he penned a story about an evil golliwog. His mother, a Jamaican professor of English literature, described it as derivative. His father, a Marxist ...

His 12th solo album, “Golliwog,” arrives at a peak in his career as a verbally inventive, independent hip-hop artist. It’s also full of horror stories. By Ross Scarano When Billy Woods was a ...

His indie label Backwoodz Studioz releases everything from rap to avant-jazz. But on Golliwog, he goes for an album full of horror stories. It’s a densely poetic, totally masterful tour de force ...

Throughout Golliwog, horror is at the beholder’s behest. Some people find vampires horrific, while others have trepidation about young Black artists dancing for boardrooms of white record ...

Last week, billy woods released GOLLIWOG, which we named Album Of The Week.Now, the Armand Hammer member told The New York Times that he’s working on a memoir and it doesn’t mention rapping at ...

Indeed, the term ‘horrorcore’ has been used to describe GOLLIWOG’s bleak lyrics and uneasy textures, but most music in this sub-genre is nihilistic and revels in its own shock value. One gets the ...