WOODS, BILLY

2026 REISSUE W/ NEW ARTWORK.

release date: May 29, 2026


Backwoodz is proud to announce a limited reissue of billy woods & Kenny Segal's 2023 masterpiece Maps; replete with new artwork (photos by Alexander Richter), dropping May 29th. Maps was the second collaboration between NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, a follow-up to 2019's modern classic Hiding Places. Maps is a story of the road, or roads, taken and untaken; of living the dream and dreaming of another life. It's an album about trying to find your way home, after making your home wherever you laid your head.

Produced in full by Kenny Segal, Mapsfeatures 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 memoirs, deadpan humor, and incandescent bursts of surrealism, Mapscements 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

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.